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    characters in this article correctly. Kharosthi script (Gāndhārī: 𐨑𐨪𐨆𐨮𐨿𐨛𐨁𐨌𐨫𐨁𐨤𐨁, romanized: kharoṣṭhī lipi), also known as the Gandhari script...
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    written in the Gāndhārī language using the Kharoṣṭhī script and are therefore sometimes also called the Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts. The collection is composed...
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    1 and Kharoṣṭhi at number 4, but also Javanaliya (probably Greek) and others not found in the Buddhist lists. While the contemporary Kharoṣṭhī script...
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    According to some authors, the word lipi, which is spelled dipi in the two Kharosthi versions of the rock edicts, comes from the Old Persian prototype dipi...
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    and the multilingual ʼPhags-pa script. The Kharosthi script, also spelled Kharoshthi or Kharoṣṭhī (Kharosthi: 𐨑𐨪𐨆𐨯𐨠𐨁) was an ancient script used...
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    oldest inscriptions, 4 looks like a +, reminiscent of the X of neighboring Kharoṣṭhī, and perhaps a representation of 4 lines or 4 directions. However, the...
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  • conquest of Afghanistan.[citation needed] Among these scripts are Sharada, Kharosthi, Greek (for the Bactrian language), and Brāhmī[citation needed]. For thousands...
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    influence of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean and for its use of the Kharoṣṭhī script, compared to Brahmic scripts used by other Prakrits. Gāndhārī is...
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    was also an ancestor to the Syriac alphabet and Mongolian script and Kharosthi and Brahmi,and Nabataean alphabet, which had the Arabic alphabet as a...
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  • three different general early historic scripts - Brahmi and its variants, Kharoṣṭhī, and Tocharian, the so-called slanting Brahmi. A as found in standard...
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