Language used in Ashokan inscriptions
Empire | Script used in Ashokan Edicts |
Afghanistan | 1. Aramaic 2. Greek scripts |
Pakistan | 3. Kharosthi evolved on the Varnantata system of the Indian languages and is written from right to left. |
Kalsi in the north in Uttaranchal upto Mysore in the south | 4. Brahmi • written from left to right. • Its individual letters were modified century after century and through this process all the scripts of India, including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam in the south and Nagari, Gujarati, Bangla etc. in the north have developed from it. |