Most alphabetic scripts of India and Eastern Asia are descended from the Brahmi script, which is often believed to be a descendant of Aramaic.

The letter order of Devanāgarī, like nearly all Brahmi scripts, is based on phonetic principles that consider both the manner and place of articulation of the consonants and vowels they represent.

The most famous Arabic mathematician is considered to be Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī ( 780 – 850 ), who produced a comprehensive guide to the numbering system developed from the Brahmi system in India, using only 10 digits ( 0-9, the so-called " Arabic numerals ").

* Oldest Brahmi script dates from this period ( Brahmi is the ancestor of Indic scripts ).

Ayodhya is also said to be the birthplace of Jadabharata ( the first Chakravartin ), Bahubali, Brahmi, Sundari, Padaliptasurisvarji, Harishchandra and Achalbharata.

The Mon script is derived from Indian Brahmi script and is the source of the Burmese script.

Gujarati script is descended from Brahmi and is part of the Brahmic family.

Brahmi is clearly attested from the 3rd century BC during the reign of Ashoka, who used the script for imperial edicts, but there are some recent finds of earlier epigraphy in Tamil-Brahmi writing found on pottery in South India and Sri Lanka, dating back to the 6th century BCE or even earlier.

Initially, minor changes were made which is now called Tamil Brahmi which has far fewer letters than some of the other Indic scripts as it has no separate aspirated or voiced consonants.

Halmidi Inscription Replica shows Kannada script which is thought to have emerged from Ashokan Brahmi around 4th or 3rd Century BCE as Proto-Kannada

This means that Thaana is one of the few alphabets not derived graphically from the original Semitic alphabet — unless the Indic numerals were ( see Brahmi numerals ).

In Hinduism, Brahmani ( also known as Brahmi and Brahmayi ) is a kind and benevolent aspect of Devi, the Divine mother.

A round signet with legend in Asokan Brahmi is another important find of this level, according to the report.

As with other Brahmi scripts, the Burmese alphabet is arranged into different groupings of 5 letters for stop consonants called wek (, from Pali ) based on articulation.

The Gupta script of the 5th century is sometimes called " Late Brahmi ".

Even though there is little intervening evidence for writing during the millennium and a half between the collapse of the Indus Valley Civilization c. 1900 BCE and the first appearance of Brahmi in the mid-4th century BCE, the Indus hypothesis is slowly gaining momentum because of the sheer differences between how Semitic alphabets work and how Brahmi works for an Indo-Aryan language.

While the contemporary and perhaps somewhat older Kharosthi script is speculated to be a derivation of the Aramaic script, the genesis of the Brahmi script is less straightforward.

Sinhala has its own writing system, the Sinhala alphabet, which is a member of the Brahmic family of scripts, and a descendant of the ancient Indian Brahmi script.

Coin of Vikramadytia Chandragupta II with the name of the king in Brahmi script, 380 – 415 CE.

The name of the Brahmi script is said to have come from a Jain legend.

:* The name Brahmi is attributed to Rishabhadeva and his daughters Brahmi and Saundari:

Unlike most Indic scripts, which are derived from Brahmi, Ol Chiki is a true alphabet, not an abugida, with vowels given equal representation with consonants.

Quite remarkably, he often explains a number given in this system, using the formula ankair api (" in figures this reads "), by repeating it written with the first nine Brahmi numerals, using a small circle for the zero.

The documentary sources are supplemented by comparison with modern Chinese varieties, pronunciation of Chinese words borrowed by other languages ( particularly Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese ), transcription into Chinese characters of foreign names, transcription of Chinese names in alphabetic scripts ( such as Brahmi, Tibetan and Uygur ), and evidence regarding rhyme and tone patterns from classical Chinese poetry.

from trash dumps ; a large quantity of teak wood, black pepper, coconuts, beads made of precious and semi-precious stones, cameo blanks ; “ a Tamil Brahmi graffito mentioning Korra, a South Indian chieftain ”; evidence that “ inhabitants from Tamil South India ( which then included most of Kerala ) were living in Berenike, at least in the early Roman period ”; evidence that the Tamil population implied the probable presence of Buddhist worshippers ; evidence of Indians at another Roman port 300 km north of Berenike ; Indian-made ceramics on the Nile road ; a rock inscription mentioning an Indian passing through en route ; “ abundant evidence for the use of ships built and rigged in India ”; and proof “ that teak wood ( endemic to South India ), found in buildings in Berenike, had clearly been reused ”( from dismantled ships ).

The Pyu sites have yielded a wide variety of Indian scripts from King Ashoka's edicts written in north Indian Brahmi and Tamil Brahmi, both dated to the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE, to the Gupta script and Kannada script dated to the 4th to 6th centuries CE.

Aramaic spread across Asia, reaching as far as India and becoming Brahmi, the ancestral abugida to most modern Indian and Southeast Asian scripts.

Brahmi numeral s ( lower row ) in India in the 1st century CE

Deciphering of the Brahmi script by James Prinsep in 1788 enabled the reading of ancient inscriptions in India and established the antiquity of Jainism.

In spite of its quite distinctive appearance, it is derived from the ancient Brahmi scripts of India.

The Gupta script ( sometimes referred to as Gupta Brahmi Script or Late Brahmi Script ) was used for writing Sanskrit and is associated with the Gupta Empire of India which was a period of material prosperity and great religious and scientific developments.

It was adapted from the Pallava script, a variant of Grantha descended from the Brahmi script of India.

The Oriya script is developed from the Kalinga script, one of the many descendants of the Brahmi script of ancient India.

The inscriptions found in the eastern part of India were written in the Magadhi language, using the Brahmi script.

The Cham script is a descendant of the Brahmi script of India.

He was the founding editor of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and is best remembered for deciphering the Kharosthi and Brahmi scripts of ancient India.

These sangams may have overlapped in parallel to the third historic sangam ; the second century BCE Tissamaharama Tamil Brahmi inscription detailing the thiraLi muRi ( written agreement of the assembly ) was excavated a few miles from the coast of the historic Tenavaram temple, Matura, Eelam.

Latest scholarship, though yet not settled, suggests that the Pyu script, based on the Indian Brahmi script, may have been the source of the Burmese script.

Another claims it to be a version of the Brahmi script.

The Brahmi numerals are an indigenous Indian numeral system attested from the 3rd century BCE ( somewhat later in the case of most of the tens ).

In 1872 – 75 Alexander Cunningham published the first Harappan seal ( with an erroneous identification as Brahmi letters ).