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... alphabet to start it with . Professor Weber and Dr. Böhtlingk also take the date of the Asoka inscriptions as the beginning of writing in India . But how could it be conceived that the full fledged Bráhmí alphabet of the inscriptions ...
... alphabet to start it with . Professor Weber and Dr. Böhtlingk also take the date of the Asoka inscriptions as the beginning of writing in India . But how could it be conceived that the full fledged Bráhmí alphabet of the inscriptions ...
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... alphabet . It is doubtful , though , if any of these countries could show records of a more ancient civilization than India . The Phoenicians were a commercial people who carried on trade between countries in the west and east , and ...
... alphabet . It is doubtful , though , if any of these countries could show records of a more ancient civilization than India . The Phoenicians were a commercial people who carried on trade between countries in the west and east , and ...
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... alphabet much earlier than 300 B. C. , if they were them- selves not the inventors of it , which , as will be shown later , they were . Bühler , to whom we owe the collection and assorting of the old Indian alphabets as found in ...
... alphabet much earlier than 300 B. C. , if they were them- selves not the inventors of it , which , as will be shown later , they were . Bühler , to whom we owe the collection and assorting of the old Indian alphabets as found in ...
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... alphabet with which the Panini's grammar started was therefore not a mere verbal alphabet , as Professor M. Müller would take it to be , but one which used to be written . It is therefore important to determine the approximate date when ...
... alphabet with which the Panini's grammar started was therefore not a mere verbal alphabet , as Professor M. Müller would take it to be , but one which used to be written . It is therefore important to determine the approximate date when ...
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... alphabet . Now , if we consider the manner in which writing has been deve- loped as discussed in the next chapter , the alphabet follows the introduction of writing , and does not precede it . The existence of ( 1 ) Valmikiya Ramayana ...
... alphabet . Now , if we consider the manner in which writing has been deve- loped as discussed in the next chapter , the alphabet follows the introduction of writing , and does not precede it . The existence of ( 1 ) Valmikiya Ramayana ...
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