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James Prinsep FRS (20 August 1799 – 22 April 1840) was an English scholar, orientalist and antiquary.He was the founding editor of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and is best remembered for deciphering the Kharosthi and Brahmi scripts of ancient India.
The Kharosthi script was deciphered separately almost concomitantly by James Prinsep (in 1835, published in the Journal of the Asiatic society of Bengal, India) [9] and by Carl Ludwig Grotefend (in 1836, published in Blätter für Münzkunde, Germany), [10] with Grotefend "evidently not aware" of Prinsep's article, followed by Christian Lassen ...
[142] [143] Consonants of the Brahmi script, and evolution down to modern Devanagari, according to James Prinsep, as published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, in March 1838. All the letters are correctly deciphered, except for two missing on the right: ð‘€°(Å›) and ð‘€±(á¹£). [144] Vowels and compounds here.
The Brahmi script was not deciphered until 1837, by James Prinsep, an Indian antiquarian. The edicts of Ashoka deal with codes of conduct in respect of moral and religious views, as his personal messages. [2] [11] The edicts are of two types: the in-situ rock edicts and the pillar edicts, both of which are found in Delhi.
Brahmi script consonants, and their evolution down to modern Devanagari, according to James Prinsep, as published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, in March 1838. All the letters are correctly deciphered, except for two missing on the right: ð‘€°(Å›) and ð‘€±(á¹£). [6]
The fourteen edicts contain text in the Kharosthi script which is an ancient script used in the Gandhara. The Kharoá¹£á¹hi script was first deciphered by James Prinsep after which the Edicts of Ashoka in Kharosthi script were translated.
Prinsep in his study and decipherment of the Edicts of Ashoka had originally identified Devanampriya Priyadasi with the King of Ceylon Devanampiya Tissa of Anuradhapura. However, in 1837, George Turnour discovered Sri Lankan manuscripts ( Dipavamsa , or "Island Chronicle" ) associating Piyadasi with Ashoka:
At the time of re-installation of the obelisk in Delhi, in 1356, no one knew the meaning of the script engraved in the stone. [5] About five hundred years later, the script was deciphered by James Prinsep in 1837 with help from scripts discovered on other pillars and tablets in South Asia. [3]