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Brāhmī Script

Authored by Sitthiches Chenruay

Religious Studies

12th Grade

Brāhmī Script
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the writing system of ancient India that appeared as a fully developed script in the 3rd century BCE?

Kharosthi

Sanskrit

Devanagari

Brahmi

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who deciphered the Brahmi script in a series of scholarly articles in the 1830s?

James Prinsep

H. H. Wilson

Christian Lassen

Alexander Cunningham

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which script is widely accepted to be a derivation of the Aramaic alphabet?

Brahmi

Sanskrit

Devanagari

Kharosthi

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the word used by Ashoka to describe his own Edicts, thought to be borrowed from an Old Persian prototype meaning 'inscription'?

Sanskrit

Prakrit

Dipi

Lipi

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

According to the text, which scholar proposed a derivation of the Brahmi alphabets from the Indus script?

G. R. Hunter

Stephen Langdon

Raymond Allchin

John Marshall

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the script that was used in the excavations of the Indus Valley Civilization?

Arabic script

Brahmi script

Chinese script

Latin script

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who noted that the Mauryans were illiterate and regulated everything by memory?

Megasthenes

Ashoka

Scharfe

Rocher

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