Brahmi Scripts Introduction with full depth

Introduction to the brahmi scripts

1. -DrSimerjitKaur

2. BrāhmīisoneoftheoldestwritingsystemsusedintheIndian
subcontinent.
ItservedasaprecursortomanymodernIndianscriptlikeDevanagari,
Bengali,andTamil.
Datesbacktothe3
rd
centuryBCE,duringtheMauryaEmpire.

3. Probableevolutionsasremarkedby
scholarsfromtheSemiticscripts
throughAramaicorPhoenician
scripts.
Earliestknownexamplesappearin
theEdictsofAshoka(3
rd
century
BCE).
Keyroleindocumentingancient
texts,includingreligiousinscriptions.

4. ब्राह्मीतुभारतीभाषागीर्ााग्वाणीसरस्वती।
व्याहारउक्तिर्ापितंभापषतंर्चनंर्चः॥
The personified female energy of Brahman.
Sarasvatī, the goddess of speech.

5. Written from left to right.
Alphabetical script with consonants and inherent vowels.
Use of diacritics to indicate vowel sounds.
Consonants:Present basic and conjunct consonants.
Vowels: Examples of independent and dependent vowel forms.

6. a ā iu e o aṃ
(which runs from left to right)
BrāhmīScript in Ashoka’sPillar at Sarnath(322 B.C.)

7. Decipheredinthe19thcenturybyJamesPrinsepin
1837.
KeytodecipheringwastheAshokaninscriptions.
Helpedtounlockthehistoryandcultureofancient
India.

9. इयंधंमपर्िीदेर्ानांपियेनपियदपसनाराञ्ञार्ेखापिता...
यदाअयंधंमपर्िीपर्क्तखता...
एतायेअठायेइयंधंमपर्पिर्ेक्तखता..
अथायअयंधम्मपर्िीर्ेखापिताप ंच..
अयंधंमपर्िीदेर्ानांपियेनपियदपसनाराञ्ञार्ेखापिता...
अयंचपर्पिपतसनखतेनसोतपर्या।
एतायेअठायेइयंधंमपर्पिपर्क्तखत.

10. InfluencedthedevelopmentofmodernscriptslikeDevanagari,Tamil,
Kannada,Telugu,andmore.
SpreadthroughSoutheastAsia,givingrisetoscriptslikeKhmerand
Thai.
Playedasignificantroleinreligiousandadministrativecommunication
inancientIndia.

12. Phoenician( 11
th
B. C) BrahmiScript ( 5
th
B. C.)
from Aleph a
from heth gha
from mem ma

17. ( Brahmi3rd B.C. )
(KushanaBrahmi3rd Century A.D.)

18. Brahmi
Kushana

21. Influence
on other
Scripts

22. Formative
Chart of
all other
Scripts