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  2. Brahmi script - Wikipedia

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    (original Brahmi script) Inscription (Prakrit in the Brahmi script) When King Devanampriya Priyadarsin had been anointed twenty years, he came himself and worshipped (this spot) because the Buddha Shakyamuni was born here. (He) both caused to be made a stone bearing a horse (?) and caused a stone pillar to be set up, (in order to show) that the ...

  3. Hathibada Ghosundi inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    The Hathibada Ghosundi Inscriptions, sometimes referred simply as the Ghosundi Inscription or the Hathibada Inscription, is the oldest Sanskrit inscriptions in the Brahmi script, and dated to the 1st century BCE.

  4. Tissamaharama inscription No. 53 - Wikipedia

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    Tissamaharama inscription No. 53 refers to a fragment of black and red ware flat dish inscribed in Brahmi script excavated at the earliest layer in southern town of Tissamaharama in Sri Lanka. It is dated to approximately 200 BC by German scholars who undertook the excavation.

  5. Lumbini pillar inscription - Wikipedia

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    The Lumbini pillar inscription, also called the Paderia inscription, is an inscription in the ancient Brahmi script, discovered in December 1896 on a pillar of Ashoka in Lumbini, Nepal by former Chief of the Nepalese Army General Khadga Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana under the authority of Nepalese government and assisted by Alois Anton Führer. [1]

  6. Sanskrit epigraphy - Wikipedia

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    1st century CE Mora Well Inscription in Brahmi script Vasu Doorjamb Inscription 1st century CE Mountain Temple Inscription. The earliest known stone inscriptions in Sanskrit are in the Brahmi script from the first century BCE. [1] [a] [b] These include the Ayodhyā (Uttar Pradesh) and Hāthībādā-Ghosuṇḍī (near Chittorgarh, Rajasthan ...

  7. Minor Pillar Edicts - Wikipedia

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    According to Irwin, the Brahmi inscriptions on the Sarnath and Sanchi pillars were made by inexperienced Indian engravers at a time when stone engraving was still new in India, whereas the very refined Sarnath capital itself was made under the tutelage of craftsmen from the former Achaemenid Empire, trained in Perso-Hellenistic statuary and ...

  8. Vasu Doorjamb Inscription - Wikipedia

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    The Vasu Doorjamb Inscription is an early 1st-century CE Sanskrit inscription in Brahmi script dedicated to the deity Vāsudeva, related to the Vaishnavism tradition of Hinduism. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is also one of the several dedicatory inscriptions from Mathura bearing the name of the Indo-Scythian Northern Satrap ruler Sodasa , which are useful as ...

  9. Brahmic scripts - Wikipedia

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    Brahmic scripts descended from the Brahmi script. Brahmi is clearly attested from the 3rd century BCE during the reign of Ashoka, who used the script for imperial edicts. Northern Brahmi gave rise to the Gupta script during the Gupta period, which in turn diversified into a number of cursives during the medieval period.

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