INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Scholars believe that the Kharoṣṭhī script was derived from Aramaic script which was used in the eastern satraps of the Achæmenid Empire (559–336 B.C.E.) that extended into northwestern India and used by the Gāndhārā culture to write the Gāndhārī and Prakrit dialects of the Gāndhārī language [1].

Detailed explanation-2: -The Kharosthi script is an ancient script used in ancient Gandhara. It is a sister script of Brahmi and was deciphered by James Princep again. Kharosthi is mostly written right to left but some inscriptions also show the left to right direction of Kharosthi.

Detailed explanation-3: -Aramaic, however, is a Semitic alphabet of 22 consonantal letters, while Kharoshti is syllabic and has 252 separate signs for consonant and vowel combinations. A cursive script written from right to left, Kharoshti was used for commercial and calligraphic purposes.

Detailed explanation-4: -The mainstream view is that Brahmi has an origin in Semitic scripts (usually Aramaic). This is accepted by the vast majority of script scholars since the publications by Albrecht Weber (1856) and Georg Bühler’s On the origin of the Indian Brahma alphabet (1895).

Detailed explanation-5: -Kharosthi script, also spelled by Kharoshthi, is an ancient Indian script used in Gandhara (now Pakistan and northeast Afghanistan) to write Gandhari Prakrit and Sanskrit.