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Abstract/ Description |
The photograph have total 27columns out of which the first and last columns portray the Roman and Devanagari scripts which allow for 39 alphabets in separate rows. Other 25 columns state briefly how scripts have developed from different countries. The photograph shows the various progressive stages of scripts in different countries from 3rd c. B. C to 16th c. A. D. South Indian script has 8 successive stages like “Asokan 3rd c.B. C”, “Tamil Caves 3rd c.B.C”, “Satavahana 2nd c. A.D”, “Vishnukundi 6th c. A. D”, Pallava 7th cent. A. D”, Cola 11th cent. A. D”, Pandya 13th cent. A. D”, “Vijayanagara 16th c. A. D”. The evolution of scripts in Ceylon includes these 3 stages “ Vessagiri 3rd c. B. C”, “ Maharatmale 2nd c. B.C” and “Vessagiri 10th c. A. D”, In Burma “Maunggunpl 5th c. A. D”, “Pyu 7-8th c. A. D” and then it has moved to the modern age. In Annam “Vo-Cann 2-3rd c. A.D”, Mi-Son 4-54th c. A. D”, Yan Tikuh 8th c. A. D”, Po-Nagar 10th c. A.D”, In Malaya “Mahanavika 5th c.A.D”, Java and Borneo evolved in Parnavarma 5th c. A.D”, “Erlanga 11th c.A.D”, Borno “ Malavarma 5th c. A.D”. The above photograph do not gives us any information about particular language
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| Origin |
Evolved in South India, Ceylon, Burma, Annam, Malaya, Java, and Borneo from 3rd century B.C. to 10th A.D till modern world.
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| Language Information |
The Kannada script is an alphasyllabary (sometimes called an abugida) of the Brahmic family, used primarily to write the Kannada language, one of the southern language in India and also Sanskrit in the past.
The Telugu script is derived from Telugu-Kannada script, and resembles Kannada script.
The Tamil script evolved from an ancient southern form of the Brahmi script, but was also influenced by the Grantha script. The earliest texts, written in the southern variant of Brahmi, date from just before the 1st century CE. Overtime the script changed, and by the 8th century CE the Tamil script has evolved into more or less its modern form.
The Nagari script is essentially an early form of the Devanagari script, which is still used in modern Indian. It appeared around the 8th century CE as an eastern variant of the Gupta script (whereas Sarada was the western variety). |