Gaudi script
Gaudi script | |
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Script type | |
Time period | c. 900-1300 CE Tirhuta, Odia script |
Sister systems | Kamarupi script, Nagari |
Brahmic scripts |
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The Brahmi script and its descendants |
The Gaudi script (Gāuṛi lipi), also known as the Proto-Bengali script
Naming
The Gaudi script is named after the Gauda Kingdom (Gāuṛ Rājya) of Gauḍa (region) in South East India by the German scholar Georg Bühler.[5] Medieval Gauḍa (region) is associated with Bengal (region). Despite this name, the script was also used in Assam, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, neighbouring parts of Nepal and Rakhine in Myanmar. The script is called by different names in different regions such as Proto-Assamese, Proto-Bengali, Proto-Maithili, Proto-Oriya, which is why Sureshchandra Bhattacharyya suggests neutral names such as the abbreviated Proto-BAM, Proto-BAMO for the script.[6]
History
The Gaudi script appeared in
The modern eastern scripts (Bengali-Assamese, Odia, and Maithili) became clearly differentiated around the 14th and 15th centuries from Gaudi.[1] While the scripts in Bengal, Assam and Mithila remained similar to each other, the Odia script developed a curved top in the 13th-14th century and became increasingly different.[8]
See also
- Gauda Kingdom
- Gauḍa (region)
- Brahmi script
- Brahmic scripts
- Siddhaṃ script
- Eastern Nagari
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-535666-3.
- ISBN 9780521299442.
- ISBN 0-7007-1130-9.
Proto-Oriya
- ^ Tripāṭhī, Kunjabihari (1962). The Evolution of Oriya Language and Script. Utkal University. p. 32. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
Proto-Oriya (The Proto-Bengali script script of Bühler)
- ^ ISBN 978-81-208-0690-0.
- .
- ^ (Bhattacharyya 1969:55)
- ^ "[T]he phase when the curved tops - so prominent now in many of the Oriya letters - were just appearing, initiating the parting of ways from the proto-[Bengali-Assamese-Maithili] phase. The beginning and progress of this trend can be noticed in many of the Orissa [inscriptions] of the 13th-14th centuries A.D." (Bhattacharyya 1969:56f)