Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.3300
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.3300
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Linguists consider Brāhmī lipi as the base of all the lipis of Bhārata. It underwent changes in different parts and took different names. The scholars of Europe are of opinion that the Brāhmī lipi was borrowed from foreign traders in B.C. 800. Others say that the Brāhmī lipi was born out of the pictorial lipi of the Chinese. There are those who say that the Brāhmī lipi originated in Greece and Phoenicia. The great linguist Bulhar says that the Brāhmī lipi came from the Semitic languages. But Lassen and Cunningham refuted it.