[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v1.c25.s4.55 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c25.s4.55 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c25.s4.55 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c25.s4.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c25.s4.55) In Ceylon and the S.-E. Asian countries—Burma, Kampuchea (Cambodia), Cochin China, Thailand, Malaya and Indonesia—merchants, fortune-seekers and Brāhmaṇical and Buddhist priests from India took with them their script as well. Cham-Khmer formed a definite family of scripts. The French scholars Aymonier and Cabaton trace two early varieties of the Cham-Khmer scripts: (1) the lapidary script found in inscriptions, and (2) the current hand traceable in a few inscriptions, from which evolved nearly all the current scripts. - [Previous: v1.c25.s4.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c25.s4.54) - [Next: v1.c25.s4.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c25.s4.56) - [Up: v1.c25.s4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c25.s4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c25.s4.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c25.s4.55) · Pramāṇa