GK
INDIAN HISTORY
Question
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Which one of the following scripts of ancient India was written from right to left?
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Bramhi
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Sharada
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Kharosthi
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Nandanagari
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Kharoshti is the scripts of ancient India which was written from right to left. The Kharosthi script was a writing system originally developed in present-day northern Pakistan, sometime between the 4th and 3rd century BCE.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gandhari Prakrit, spoken in the north-west, in the region that today constitutes Pakistan, was among the more unusual Prakrits. It employed the Kharoshthi script, usually written from right to left, as opposed to the other Prakrits, which used the Brahmi script that ran from left to right.
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