BRAHMI

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This ancient and remarkable script is considered the mother of scripts found in South East Asia.  It is an excellent writing system, examples of which found in North and Central India represent Prakrit language. It was the script that was used for the noted Ashokan inscriptions that were carved on rocks, in caves, on stones slabs, and rock pillars across India. During the golden period of Buddhism, when it was on the rise as a faith in India, donations given were recorded in the Brahmi in various inscriptions found in monuments and other places of significance.

 

It was inscribed on coins during the early 2nd century BCE. It was also seen in use on ceramics for the purpose of identification of the owner of the object. Later the Brahmi script was adopted for as the script for official communication especially in designing seals and for the aforementioned Ashokan Inscriptions. The Brahmi was soon also the primary script for creating and maintaining / documenting religious texts and at the same time used extensively in architecture.