Brahmi
Script
Prof. Sandeepsagar
Fergusson College, Pune.
• IMP for History
• No documents, no History.
• Written evidences starts from/with ‘Brahmi’
Timeline…
• IMP for History
• No documents, no History.
• Written evidences starts from/with ‘Brahmi’
• ‘Lalitvistar’ text says – 64 Scripts – Brahmi (imp)
• ‘SamavayankSutra’
• Chinese texts also says – ‘Brahmi’
• Not ‘Chitralipi’, its ‘ChinhaLipi’
• ‘उच्यते सा भाषा, लऱख्यते सा लऱऩी’
• Other Name - धम्मलऱऩी/अशोकलऱऩी
• Spl. - No ‘लशरोरेखा’
• Nanda
• Mourya
• Shunga
• Kushana
• Kshatrapa
• Gupta
• Satavahana etc…
Used ‘Brahmi’
• Ajanta
• Ellora
• Kanheri
• Pandavleni (Trirashmi)
• Karle
• Bhaje
• Shelarvadi
• Naneghat
• Lenyadri etc…
Used ‘Brahmi’
• 2000 years old (at least)
• Social-Political-Religious-Economical Status
• Influences, Past to know the Present and to ‘shape the future’
• Mother of other Indian scripts.. (The Indic scripts are an descendent of Brahmi. )
• Decrement after Gupta’s and Vardhan’s
• Decrement after 6th Century
• Tughalak tried to decode Brahmi..
• Sir William Johns – Royal Asiatic Society, Bengal (Kalkatta)
(to study ‘East’)
Wilkins
Jems Princep (1834-35)
Moris
Jeorge Buhler
Raja Bali Pandey
Gauri Shankar Oza
Ahemed H. Dani
Gladwell
Lord Kaningham
Etc..
See Short video on
The Brahmi script: Deciphering ancient Indian history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCqcY-l6ic4
Courtesy : Five Minute Storytrail
Child learning Brahmi
Found from Sugh, Haryana, ht: 5.4 cm
in stone, 3rd century B.C
Brahmi Edict of Ashoka
Girnar, Gujarat
Edict of Ashoka.
ShahbajGadhi, Pakistan
Here is where your
presentation begins
Developmental Stages of Brahmi Script..
• Vowels – स्वर = 10
• Consonants - व्यंजन = 34
• Nasal's - अनुनालसक = 01
Total = 45
(स्वर)
अ
अंकुर
आ
अंकुर
इ
ई
उ
उष्ट्र:
ऊ
ए
ऐ
ओ
औ
(अनुनासिक)
अं
अंकुर
यदर्थमात्राऩदवाक्यहीनं मया प्रमादाद्यलद लकचनोक्तम ्।
तन्मे ऺलमत्वा लवदधातु देवी सरस्वती केवऱबोधऱलिम ्।।
Prof. Sandeepsagar
Fergusson College, Pune.

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