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A reproduction of the palm-leaf manuscript in Siddham script, originally held at Hōryū-ji Temple, Japan; now located in the Tokyo National Museum at the Gallery of Hōryū—ji Treasure. The original copy may be the earliest extant Sanskrit manuscript of the Heart Sutra dated to the 7th–8th century CE.
Notable examples of such medieval scripts, developed by the 7th or 8th century, include Nagari, Siddham and Sharada. The Siddhaṃ script was especially important in Buddhism, as many sutras were written in it. The art of Siddham calligraphy survives today in Japan.
Siddham is a Unicode block containing characters for the historical, Brahmi-derived Siddham script used for writing Sanskrit between the years c. 550 – c. 1200. [ 3 ] Block
This template is used to mark text written in Siddham script, using a set of specific fonts and a specific font size. TemplateData This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard , VisualEditor and other tools.
The image of the palm leaf manuscript on this page is the Heart Sūtra - or at least the first page and the first line of the last page. The rest of the text is the Uṣniṣavijaya Dhāraṇī . While the last line contains a complete siddhaṃ syllabary beginning with the word 'siddhaṃ'.
The Nāgarī script appeared in ancient India as a central-eastern variant of the Gupta script (whereas Śāradā was the western variety and Siddham was the far eastern variety). In turn it branched off into several scripts, such as Devanagari and Nandinagari. [citation needed]
The Meitei script (Meitei: ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ, romanized: Meitei mayek), also known as the Kanglei script (Meitei: ꯀꯪꯂꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ, romanized: Kanglei mayek) [5] or the Kok Sam Lai script (Meitei: ꯀꯣꯛ ꯁꯝ ꯂꯥꯏ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ, romanized: Kok Sam Lai mayek), after its first three letters [6] [7] is an abugida in the Brahmic scripts family used to write the Meitei ...
Siddham Consonants. k kh g gh ṅ c ch j jh ñ ṭ ṭh ḍ ḍh ṇ t th d dh n p ph b bh m ẏ,y r l,ḷ w ś ṣ s h kṣ jñ Bengali