It is a descendant of the Gupta script, along with Siddham and Sharada.

Northern Brahmi gave rise to the Gupta script during the Gupta period, which in turn diversified into a number of cursives during the Middle Ages, including Siddham, Sharada and Nagari.

Gupta script on stone Kanheri Caves

The language of Licchavi inscriptions is Sanskrit, and the particular script used is closely related to official Gupta scripts, suggesting that India was a significant cultural influence.

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.

The Gupta script was descended from Brahmi and gave rise to the Nagari, Sharada and Siddham scripts.

The Gupta Script was descended from the Ashokan Brahmi script, and is a crucial link between Brahmi and most other scripts in the Brahmic family of Scripts, a family of alphasyllabaries or abugidas.

In fact, the Gupta script works in exactly the same manner as its predecessor and successors, and only the shapes and forms of the graphemes and diacritics are different.

In this sense, the term Gupta script should be taken to mean any form of writing derived from the Gupta period, even though there may be a lack of uniformity in the scripts.

The surviving inscriptions of the Gupta script are mostly found on iron or stone pillars, and on gold coins from the Gupta Dynasty.

The manuscripts in this find are dated before the 7th century, and are written in the upright Gupta script.

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In 1960s, Shanta Gandhi Professor of Ancient Indian Drama at while at National School of Drama, revived interest in Jaishankar Prasad ’ s plays for modern Indian theatre, by successfully staging his most important play Skanda Gupta written in 1928, with little changes to the original script, thus quashing doubts over its " stagability ".

* 320: The Gupta or Siddha-matrika script emerges.

A later inscription attributed to the second king of the Gupta empire, Samudragupta, is in the more refined Gupta script, a later version of Brahmi, and is dated to around 375 AD.

Subsequently, the region came under the control of the Gupta empire in the 4th and 5th centuries, and their southern neighbours, the Vakatakas.

By the end of the 5th century, the Hephthalites overthrew the Indian Gupta Empire to their southeast and conquered a large part of their area.

Hephthalite silver coin copying Gupta Empire horse type, 5th century CE.

The sculpture collection holds Gupta ( 280 to 550 CE ) terracotta figures from Mirpurkhas in Sind of the early 5th century, artefacts dating to the Chalukyan era ( 6th-12th century, Badami Chalukyas and Western Chalukyas ), and sculptures of the Rashtrakuta period ( 753 – 982 CE ) from Elephanta, near Mumbai.

in R Gupta and K S Williams, Proc 5th Conf Can Nr Theo Assoc, 1999, vol 19 CRM Proc & Lec Notes, AMS, Aug 1999.

Buddha of the Gupta Empire | Gupta period, 5th century, Mathura.

The founder of the dynasty, Senapati ( general ) Bhatarka, was a military governor of Saurashtra peninsula under Gupta Empire, who had established himself as the independent ruler of Gujarat approximately in the last quarter of 5th century.

Their claims are supported by the peculiarities of the shapes of the characters found in the Nogajori-Khonikor Gaon stone inscriptions of the 5th century A. D. where the letters are distinctly different from Nagari and have close resemblance with the Gupta Script.

File: GuptaBuddha. jpg | Buddha of the Gupta period, 5th century, Mathura.

The Gupta empire had been weakened by the attacks of the Indo-Hephthalites, known in India as the Hunas, towards the end of the 5th century, which caused it to break up into smaller states.

They were extensively carved and reworked under the command of Chandragupta II, Emperor of the Gupta Empire, in the late 4th and 5th century CE.

Eastern variants of Gupta called Nāgarī are first attested from the 8th century CE ; from c. 1200 CE these gradually replaced Siddham, which survived as a vehicle for Tantric Buddhism in East Asia, and Sharada, which remained in parallel use in Kashmir.

Fresco from Ajanta build during the Gupta Empire in the 6th century

Most ancient cultures have had conceptions of a flat Earth, including Greece until the classical period, the Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations of the Near East until the Hellenistic period, India until the Gupta period ( early centuries AD ) and China until the 17th century.

The Buddha-Gupta stone, dating to the 4th-5th century CE, was dedicated by an Indian Merchant, Buddha Gupta, as an expression of gratitude for his safe arrival after a voyage to the Malay peninsula.

Much of northern and central India was united in the 4th century CE, and remained so for two centuries, under the Gupta Empire.

The " Classical Age " in India began with the Gupta Empire and the resurgence of the north during Harsha's conquests around the 7th century CE, and ended with the fall of the Vijayanagara Empire in the south in the 13th century, due to pressure from the invaders to the north.

King Harsha of Kannauj succeeded in reuniting northern India during his reign in the 7th century, after the collapse of the Gupta dynasty.

The text probably reached its final form by the early Gupta period ( c. 4th century ).

It is estimated that the Sanskrit text probably reached something of a " final form " by the early Gupta period ( about the 4th century CE ).

In the 7th century, Harsha united Northern India, which had reverted to small republics and states after the fall of the Gupta Empire in the 6th century.

The classical Gupta Empire of Northern India, largely overrun by the Huna, ended in the mid-6th century.

By the 6th century, the Gupta Empire ruling over the northern Indian subcontinent was largely broken up.

Classical Sanskrit literature flowers in the Maurya and Gupta periods, roughly spanning the 2nd century BC to the 8th century AD.

After the collapse of the Gupta Empire in the 6th century, India was again ruled by numerous regional kingdoms.

Built in the 9th century during the reign of the Sailendra Dynasty, the temple ’ s design in Gupta architecture reflects India's influence on the region, yet there are enough indigenous scenes and elements incorporated to make Borobudur uniquely Indonesian.

Thus, the two ancient names as Jambhiyagram and Jambubani prove that this district was important as a religious place for Jains and it was also a place of Gupta dynasty in the 19th century.

According to available literature, Jamui was related to Gupta and Pala rulers before 12th century.

The title ' Vikramaditya ' was later used by Gupta king Chandragupta II and 16th century Hindu king Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya as well.

During the Gupta period ( 4th to 6th century ) sculpture reached a very high standard in execution and delicacy in modeling.

Chess is commonly believed to have originated in northwestern India during the Gupta empire, where its early form in the 6th century was known as chaturanga.

The pioneer of Hindi theatre as well as playwrighting, Bhartendu Harishchandra wrote Satya Harishchandra ( 1875 ), Bharat Durdasha ( 1876 ) and Andher Nagari ( 1878 ), in the late 19th century, Jaishankar Prasad became the next big figure in Hindi playwriting with plays like Skanda Gupta ( 1928 ), Chandragupta ( 1931 ) and Dhruvswamini ( 1933 ).