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The Kadamba script is the first writing system devised specifically for writing Kannada and it was later adopted to write Telugu language. [4] The Kadamba script is also known as Pre-Old-Kannada script. The Kadamba script is one of the oldest of the southern group of the Brahmi script.
Kadamba script developed by the Kadamba dynasty was derived from the Brahmi script and later evolved into the Telugu-Kannada script after the 7th century. [1] [8] [9] The Telugu and Kannada scripts then separated by around 1300 CE. [1] [10] [11] The Muslim historian and scholar Al-Biruni referred to both the Telugu language as well as its ...
The Telugu–Kannada script (or Kannada–Telugu script) was a writing system used in Southern India. Despite some significant differences, the scripts used for the Telugu and Kannada languages remain quite similar and highly mutually intelligible. Satavahanas and Chalukyas influenced the similarities between Telugu and Kannada scripts. [3]
Pallava script was the first significant development of Brahmi in India, combining rounded and rectangular strokes and adding typographical effects, and was suitable for civic and religious inscriptions. Kadamba-Pallava script [17] evolved into early forms of Kannada and Telugu scripts. Glyphs become more rounded and incorporate loops because ...
The Kannada and Telugu scripts share very high mutual intellegibility with each other, [6] and are often considered to be regional variants of single script. Other scripts similar to Kannada script are Sinhala script [7] (which included some elements from the Kadamba script [8]), and Old Peguan script (used in Burma). [9]
Kadamba Coin of Shanthivarma, 5th century Kannada legend Sri Manarashi. The 5th Century copper coin in archaic Kannada script found at Banavasi. [15] One side has five letter inscription Sri Manaragi and symbol of Ujjain on other side. Coins bearing Kannada inscription; Pagodas and Fanams with Kannada inscription were the coinage of Alupas ...
Goykanadi is very different from the Old Kannada script, with strikingly similar features. [5] Unlike Old Kannada, Kandevi/Goykanadi letters were usually written with a distinctive horizontal bar, like the Nagari scripts. This script may have been evolved out of the Kadamba script, which was extensively used in Goa and Konkan. [4]
Old Kannada inscription (1200 AD) of King Kamadeva of the Kadamba dynasty of the Hangal branch. The Kadamba kings, like their predecessors the Satavahanas, called themselves Dharmamaharajas (lit, "Virtuous kings") and followed them closely in their administrative procedures. The kings were well read and some were even scholars and men of letters.