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ISBN10: 8124604061, ISBN13: 9788124604069, [publisher: D K Printworld, New Delhi] Hardcover Contents Preface. Acknowledgement. Key to transliteration. Introduction. 1. Aum Aksara in Indian thought/Kapil Kapoor. 2. On the origin of the early Indian Scripts/Richard Salomon. 3. Typological observations on the Indic Scripts and their relationship with other Alphasyllburies/Richard Salomon. 4. The art of writing at the time of the Pillar Edicts of Asoka/Harry Falk. 5. Evolution of early writing in India/Subhash C. Kak. 6. Progress of modification of Brahmi Alphabet as revealed by inscriptions of sixth eighth centuries/A.K. Singh. 7. The so called Sankha Lipi (Shell Script)/B.N. Mukherjee. 8. Evolution of Brahmi Script a linguistic approach/Dilip Rajgor. 9. Brahmi Manuscript Palaeography/Andrew Glass. 10. Aksara as a linguistic unit in Brahmi Scripts/Purushottam G. Patel. 11. Aksara as the minimal articulatory unit/Pramod Pandey. 12. Phonological and generative aspects of Brahmi and its derivatives/Pramod Pandey. The contributors. List of Sanskrit Terms. List of inscriptions and place names. List of languages. Author index. Subject Index. This volume presents the advances in the ongoing research on Brahmi and its daughter scripts used in the present day India. It brings together two main trends evolutionary historical development and linguistic grounding. This is the first attempt to cross fertilize Palaeography and linguistics. The Palaeographic papers cover the main issue ...
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