SSC MTS EXAM

SSC

INDIAN HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which one of the following scripts of ancient India was written from right to left?
A
Bramhi
B
Sharada
C
Kharosthi
D
Nandanagari
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. Kharosthi was employed to represent a form of Prakrit, an Indo-Aryan language.

Detailed explanation-2: -Kharoṣṭhī is written from right and left. Each syllable includes the short a sound by default, with other vowels being indicated by diacritic marks. Epigraphical evidence indicates that the order of letters in Kharoṣṭhī script follows what has become known as the Arapacana alphabet.

Detailed explanation-3: -Brahmi is typically written left to right. Brahmi is an abugida, which means that each letter represents a consonant, while vowels are written with obligatory diacritics called matras in Sanskrit unless the vowels begin a word. It is an alpha syllabic writing style.

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