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Book: The Disappearance of Writing Systems

Chapter: Whatever Happened to Kharoṣṭhī? The Fate of a Forgotten Indic Script

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.18954

Blurb:

The Kharoṣṭhī script tends to be viewed as a minor node on the family tree of Indian scripts; a sort of stepsister to the much better known and more influential complex of scripts that are conventionally grouped under the name ‘Brāhmī’.

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