Raamesh Gowri Raghavan first encountered the Brahmi script back in the 1990s. “These were Ashokan inscriptions,” says the Mumbai-based writer, epigraphist, digital marketer and scientist. Wanting to ...

Noted historian and archaeologist M R Raghava Varier has confirmed the presence of Brahmi script at the ancient Edakkal caves in a remote part of Wayanad district. KOCHI: Noted historian and ...

In Jain myths, Rishabhadeva, the first Tirthankara of this era, passed on the knowledge of writing to his daughter Brahmi and the knowledge of numbers to his daughter Sundari. Literature and ...

Abstract: The Brahmi script is among the most ancient and historically prominent systems of writing in South Asia, with applications that warrant corresponding modern Indic scripts. Digitally ...

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: In novel and unique bid to preserve India’s most revered Hindu scripture, Bhagavad Gita, dated to the second or first century BCE linguistic heritage, a 17-year-old student ...

New Delhi: Centuries before Emperor Ashoka, Brahmi script was in use, reveals a recent paper by archaeologist Vinay Gupta. A Superintendent Archaeologist (SA) at the Archaeological Survey of India ...

In a milestone discovery in epigraphy, a team of enthusiasts discovered a new site in the Maruthom forest area of Kasaragod where ancient Brahmi scripts dating back to 300 BC have been inscribed.

The advent of globalisation has precipitated demise of human languages. People find it easier to communicate with those outside their culture through one single language. While languages spoken by the ...

Did the Tamil-Brahmi script originate in the post-Asokan period, that is, after the 3rd century BCE, or is it pre-Asokan? A cist-burial excavated in 2009 at Porunthal village, on the foothills of the ...

Abstract: Indian civilization is one of the ancient one and has a very unique and diverse culture. It contributes so much to the word in mathematics, science, medicine, literature, education and ...