Emperor Ashoka used both scripts in his edicts – the Brahmi script in Central India and the Kharōshthi script in Western India. The letters are almost alike but Brahmi was written from left to right, ...

South and Southeast Asia. There are many languages in Indian and Southeast Asia that have distinctive writing systems, but they're all descended from the Brahmi script of some 2,300 years ago, and ...

Raamesh Gowri Raghavan first encountered the Brahmi script back in the 1990s. “These were Ashokan inscriptions,” says the Mumbai-based writer, epigraphist, digital marketer and scientist ...

Tamil Brahmi inscriptions also had been found in the Anuradhapura period in parallel to Sinhala Brahmi. PallavaGrantha and East Asian Scripts. Sinhala script began evolving from Brahmi from 1 CE ...

The Lepcha script, also known as the Róng script, is a Brahmi-style syllabic alphabet possibly derived from the dbu med variant of the Tibetan script.

Read on how a city-based filmmaker, Akshay Golecha, translated the National Anthem into the 2,200-year-old Brahmi script for various cinema halls One of the verses of the National Anthem ...

COIMBATORE: Learning a new language is not everybody’s cup of tea, let alone an old script such as the Tamil-Brahmi. But, for eight-year-old SJ Moshika, reading and writing the ancient form of ...

CHENNAI: A potsherd with a Tamil Brahmi script, ‘Mththi’, in three letters, considered a rare finding, was found in the Vadakkupattu archaeological site, near Oragadam in Kancheepuram district ...

Prof Verma further said, “The earliest script of India is Brahmi. It was first noticed in the edicts of Mauryan Emperor Ashoka, who used it to write his instructions in Magadhan Prakrit language ...

The Tamil-Brahmi script with the letters "a ma na," meaning Jaina, found at Pattanam in Kerala. The letters are followed by two megalithic graffiti symbols which could not be identified.

The Tamil Brahmi script on the 'thaangi' is read as 'thavan sathan' and is inscribed upside down. “It is in black and red colour. Though it is centuries old, the colour and texture still remain.