Brahmi script 1
- 2. • IMP for History • No documents, no History. • Written evidences starts from/with ‘Brahmi’
- 3. Timeline…
- 4. • 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’
- 5. • Nanda • Mourya • Shunga • Kushana • Kshatrapa • Gupta • Satavahana etc… Used ‘Brahmi’
- 6. • Ajanta • Ellora • Kanheri • Pandavleni (Trirashmi) • Karle • Bhaje • Shelarvadi • Naneghat • Lenyadri etc… Used ‘Brahmi’
- 7. • 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’)
- 8. Wilkins Jems Princep (1834-35) Moris Jeorge Buhler Raja Bali Pandey Gauri Shankar Oza Ahemed H. Dani Gladwell Lord Kaningham Etc..
- 9. See Short video on The Brahmi script: Deciphering ancient Indian history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCqcY-l6ic4 Courtesy : Five Minute Storytrail
- 10. Child learning Brahmi Found from Sugh, Haryana, ht: 5.4 cm in stone, 3rd century B.C
- 11. Brahmi Edict of Ashoka Girnar, Gujarat
- 12. Edict of Ashoka. ShahbajGadhi, Pakistan
- 13. Here is where your presentation begins
- 14. Developmental Stages of Brahmi Script..
- 15. • Vowels – स्वर = 10 • Consonants - व्यंजन = 34 • Nasal's - अनुनालसक = 01 Total = 45
- 16. (स्वर)
- 17. अ अंकुर
- 18. आ अंकुर
- 19. इ
- 20. ई
- 21. उ उष्ट्र:
- 22. ऊ
- 23. ए
- 24. ऐ
- 25. ओ
- 26. औ
- 27. (अनुनासिक)
- 28. अं अंकुर
- 29. यदर्थमात्राऩदवाक्यहीनं मया प्रमादाद्यलद लकचनोक्तम ्। तन्मे ऺलमत्वा लवदधातु देवी सरस्वती केवऱबोधऱलिम ्।। Prof. Sandeepsagar Fergusson College, Pune.