Brāhmī Script

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

• Kharosthi

• Sanskrit

• Devanagari

• Brahmi

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

• James Prinsep

• H. H. Wilson

• Christian Lassen

• Alexander Cunningham

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

• Brahmi

• Sanskrit

• Devanagari

• Kharosthi

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

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

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

• Arabic script

• Brahmi script

• Chinese script

• Latin script

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

• Megasthenes

• Ashoka

• Scharfe

• Rocher

Which scholar deciphered several letters of the Brahmi script using a bilingual Greek-Brahmi coin?

• James Prinsep

• Timothy Falk

• Christian Lassen

• Kenneth Norman

Which Unicode block includes characters for the Devanagari script?

• U+0900–U+097F

• U+0C80–U+0CFF

• U+0B80–U+0BFF

• U+0A80–U+0AFF

Which type of Brahmi script is represented in the Gupta script?

• Kushana Brahmi

• Late Brahmi

• Middle Brahmi

• Early Brahmi