{"id":27196,"date":"2024-10-12T10:59:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T05:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27196"},"modified":"2025-04-08T07:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T02:19:16","slug":"brahmi-inscription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/brahmi-inscription\/","title":{"rendered":"Brahmi Inscription"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Brahmi Inscription:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Brahmi script is the <strong>earliest writing system <\/strong>developed in India after the Indus script.<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the most influential writing systems; all modern Indian scripts and several hundred scripts found in Southeast and East Asia are derived from Brahmi.<\/li>\n<li>Most examples of Brahmi found in North and Central India represent <strong>the Prakrit language.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The earliest known Brahmi inscriptions are <strong>from the edicts of Ashoka,<\/strong> the third Mauryan emperor of Magadha who ruled most of the sub-continent between 268 and 232 BCE.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Traces of the script have been discovered not just in the Gangetic plains but also in excavated sites in <strong>Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Sri Lanka<\/strong>, mostly on pottery shards.<\/li>\n<li>Among the many descendant scripts of Brahmi are those of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, such as <strong>Devanagari <\/strong>and the <strong>Bengali and Gujarati scripts<\/strong>; those of the Deccan region, including the scripts for <strong>Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is an Inscription?<\/h3>\n<p>Inscriptions refer to any form of writing or markings on a surface, typically made for the purpose of recording information, transmitting messages, or providing instructions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/andhra-pradesh\/brahmi-inscription-found-in-dharanikota\/article68741300.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brahmi inscription found in Dharanikota<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The earliest known Brahmi inscriptions are from the edicts of Ashoka, the third Mauryan emperor of Magadha who ruled most of the sub-continent between 268 and 232 BCE. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}