Hinduism: What Really Happenned in India (PDF) - Oration

Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan
1. The coins of the Indo-Grecian Kings Agathocles the
Pantaleon
2. The inscriptions of the ksatrapa Sodasa.
3. The Kanhiar (Dist. Kangra, H.P.) rock inscription
4. The Bathtsal (Jammu) cave inscription
III. The inscriptions of the Kusana kings-Kaniska, Huviska and
Vasudeva, discovered form Mathura and its vicinity, illustrate the
next step in the development of the Brahmi of north-western
India.
Gupta Alphabet
IV. Further development of our alphabet is illustrated by the
following records of the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., which
represent the western variety of the northern Indian alphabet of
the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., generally called the Gupta
alphabet:
1. The Abbotabad inscription of the time of Kadambesvara dasa
(Gupta) year 25 = A.D. 344
2. The Mathura inscription of Chandragupta II, G.E. 61 = A.D.
380
3. The Mathura stone inscription of Chandragupta II
4. The Shorkot inscription of the year 83
5. The Tussam (Dist. Hissar) rock inscription
6. The Lahore copper seal inscription of the Maharaj
Mahesvaranaga 7. The Bower manuscript
In the following records of the 6th and the 7th centuries A.D.,
discovered in northwestern India, we find further development of
the forms of the Western Gupta alphabet leading to those of the
Sharada in the 9th century.
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