Social:Kadamba script

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Short description: Historic abugida of South India

Kadamba script
Sri-manarashi.jpg
Type
Abugida
LanguagesKannada
Telugu
Tulu
Sanskrit
Konkani
Time period
4–7th century CE[1]
Parent systems
Brahmi script
  • Kadamba script
Child systems
Kannada-Telugu alphabet, Goykanadi,[2] Pyu script[3]
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The Kadamba script is the first writing system devised specifically for writing Kannada and it was later adopted to write Telugu language[4].The Kadamba script is also known as Pre-Old-Kannada script

The Kadamba script is one of the oldest of the southern group of the Brahmi script. By the 5th century CE it became distinct from other Brahmi variants and was used in southern Indian states of Karnataka and Andra Pradesh. It evolved into the Kannada-Telugu alphabet by the 10th century CE and was used to write Kannada and Telugu.[5] It is also related to the Sinhala script.[6]

History

Kadamba coinage
Coin of Kadamba king Sri Manarashi, name written in Kadamba script
Sri manarashi written in Kadamba script on Kadamba coin
Coin of the Kadambas written in Kadamba script as sri dosharashi and other side Shri shashankaha
Sri dosharashi written in Kadamba script on Kadamba coin

During the rule of Kadamba dynasty (325-550), major change in the Brahmi script resulted in the Kadamba Kannada script, letters were shorter and round in shape. During (325 to 1000 AD) the rule of the Western Ganga dynasty in the southern parts of Karnataka the Kannada script used differently (also known as Ganga script) in rock edicts and copper plate inscriptions. During 6th to 10th century, the Telugu-Kannada alphabet stabilized during the rule of the Chalukyas of Badami from 500-1000[7] and Rastrakutas.[citation needed]

Inscriptions in Kadamba script

Sanskrit language written in Kannada-Telugu script of Eastern Chalukyas in 10th century AD
Prakrit Grantha inscription of Kadamba ruler Vishnuvarman (c. 5th-6th century CE) from Edakkal (northern Kerala)
  • Gudnapur Inscription on 20-foot-long stone pillar written in Kadamba script[8]
  • Copper plate inscriptions in Kadamba (Pre - Chalukya) script, Kadamba-Pallava script, Kannada-Telugu script are available at Chennai museum[9]
  • Halmidi inscription
  • Talagunda pillar inscription[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Diringer, David (1948). Alphabet a key to the history of mankind. p. 381. 
  2. ↑ "Goykanadi script". https://www.omniglot.com/writing/goykanadi.htm. 
  3. ↑ Aung-Thwin, Michael (2005). The mists of Rāmañña: The Legend that was Lower Burma (illustrated ed.). Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-2886-8. 
  4. ↑ Diringer, David (1948). Alphabet a key to the history of mankind. p. 381. 
  5. ↑ "Scripts fading away with time". https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/news/india/scripts-fading-away-with-time/articleshow/21534740.cms. 
  6. ↑ Jayarajan, Paul M. (1 January 1976). History of the Evolution of the Sinhala Alphabet. Colombo Apothecaries' Company, Limited.
  7. ↑ Kipfer, Barbara Ann (2000). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 692. ISBN 978-0-306-46158-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=XneTstDbcC0C&pg=PA692. 
  8. ↑ Rajiv Ajjibal (2011-12-16). "Monuments crying for attention". The Hindu. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/monuments-crying-for-attention/article2719672.ece. 
  9. ↑ "Government Museum Chennai". Chennaimuseum.org. http://www.chennaimuseum.org/draft/gallery/01/07/copper2.htm. 
  10. ↑ "Kannada inscription at Talagunda may replace Halmidi as oldest". 12 January 2017. https://www.deccanherald.com/content/591046/kannada-inscription-talagunda-may-replace.html. 

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