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  2. Sanskrit - Wikipedia

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    One of the oldest surviving Sanskrit manuscript pages in Gupta script (c. 828 CE), discovered in Nepal. The early history of writing Sanskrit and other languages in ancient India is a problematic topic despite a century of scholarship, states Richard Salomon – an epigraphist and Indologist specializing in Sanskrit and Pali literature. [250]

  3. Sanskrit epigraphy - Wikipedia

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    Both major writing systems for Sanskrit, the North Indian and South Indian scripts, have been discovered in southeast Asia, but the Southern variety with its rounded shapes are far more common. [23] The Indic scripts, particularly the Pallava script prototype, [ 24 ] spread and ultimately evolved into Mon-Burmese, Khmer, Thai, Lao, Sumatran ...

  4. Brahmi script - Wikipedia

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    Both were used to write Sanskrit, until the latter was merged into the former. The resulting script is widely adopted across India to write Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi and its dialects, and Konkani. The arrangement of Brahmi was adopted as the modern order of Japanese kana, though the letters themselves are unrelated. [202]

  5. Sanskrit literature - Wikipedia

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    Sanskrit is known for its classical literature, even though the creative activity in this language has continued without pause from the medieval age till today. [...] Consequently, contemporary Sanskrit writing suffers from a prevailing negligence.

  6. Gupta script - Wikipedia

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    The Gupta script (sometimes referred to as Gupta Brahmi script or Late Brahmi script) [6] was used for writing Sanskrit and is associated with the Gupta Empire of the Indian subcontinent, which was a period of material prosperity and great religious and scientific developments.

  7. Devanagari transliteration - Wikipedia

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    Devanagari is an Indic script used for many Indo-Aryan languages of North India and Nepal, including Hindi, Marathi and Nepali, which was the script used to write Classical Sanskrit. There are several somewhat similar methods of transliteration from Devanagari to the Roman script (a process sometimes called romanisation ), including the ...

  8. International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration - Wikipedia

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    The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanisation of Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages.

  9. Brahmic scripts - Wikipedia

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    Was used to write the Maldivian language up until the 20th century. [7] Diak U+11900–U+1195F 𑤞𑥂𑤧𑤭𑥂 Dogra: Takri: Was used to write Dogri. Dogra script is closely related to Takri. [8] Dogr U+11800–U+1184F 𑠖𑠵𑠌𑠤𑠬 Grantha: Pallava: 6th century Restricted use in traditional Vedic schools to write Sanskrit.