HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Question
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Prakrit
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Brahmi
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Sanskrit
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Kharoshti
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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is Kharoshthi Script. Kharosthi was one of the major scripts of the Indian subcontinent in the early period. Kharosthi is first encountered in the edicts of Asoka in the 3rd century BCE.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mansehra Rock Edicts are one of the 33 inscriptions of Edicts of Ashoka describing expansion of Buddhism and his Law of Piety or dharma. The fourteen edicts contain text in the Kharosthi script which is an ancient script used in the Gandhara.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ashoka’s Inscriptions can be found only in Brahmi script and not in Kharosthi script, which has Persian origin.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Kharoṣṭhī script, also spelled Kharoshthi (Kharosthi: ), was an ancient Indo-Iranian script used by various Aryan peoples in north-western regions of the Indian subcontinent, more precisely around present-day northern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. It was used in Central Asia as well.