Practicing Success
Early scholars studying ancient inscriptions 'mistakenly assumed' that the inscriptions were written in which language? |
Prakrit, an earlier vernacular language Devanagari, the script used for Hindi Tamil, a classical language of South India Sanskrit, the language of ancient scriptures |
Sanskrit, the language of ancient scriptures |
The foundation of most scripts used in modern Indian languages traces back to Brahmi, the script employed in Asokan inscriptions. In the late eighteenth century, European scholars collaborated with Indian pandits to conduct a reverse process, comparing contemporary Bengali and Devanagari manuscripts with older specimens. |