Siddhaṃ script
| Siddham script Siddhaṃ 𑖭𑖰𑖟𑖿𑖠𑖽 | |
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The word Siddhaṃ in Siddhaṃ script | |
| Script type | |
Period | c. late 6th century[1] – c. 1200 CE[note 1] |
| Direction | Left-to-right |
| Languages | Sanskrit |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Egyptian
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Child systems |
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Sister systems | Sharada,[2][3][5] Tibetan,[4] Kalinga, Bhaiksuki |
| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Sidd (302), Siddham, Siddhaṃ, Siddhamātṛkā |
| Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Siddham |
Unicode range | U+11580–U+115FF Final Accepted Script Proposal |
| Brahmic scripts |
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| The Brahmi script and its descendants |
Siddhāṃ (also known as Kutila[5][8]) is an Indic script used in India from the 6th century to the 13th century. Also known in its later evolved form as Siddhamātṛkā, Siddham is a medieval Brahmic abugida, derived from the Gupta script and ancestral to the Nāgarī, Eastern Nagari, Tirhuta, Odia and Nepalese scripts.[9][10] The Siddham script was widely used by Indian Buddhists and still remains in use by East Asian Buddhists, especially for writing mantras, seed syllables, and dharanis.[11]
The word Siddhaṃ means "accomplished", "completed" or "perfected" in Sanskrit. The script received its name from the practice of writing Siddhaṃ, or Siddhaṃ astu ('may there be perfection'), at the head of documents. Other names for the script include bonji (Japanese: 梵字) "Brahma's characters" and "Sanskrit script" and Chinese: 悉曇文字; pinyin: Xītán wénzi "Siddhaṃ script".
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- ^ a b Malatesha Joshi, R.; McBride, Catherine (11 June 2019). Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography. Springer. ISBN 9783030059774.
- ^ a b Daniels, P.T. (January 2008). "Writing systems of major and minor languages".
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In the northeast, meanwhile separately evolved into a form referred to as 'proto-Bengali' or Gaudī, which prevailed until the fourteenth century, by which time it had begun to be differentiated into the modern eastern scripts, Bangla-Asamiya, Maithilī and Oriya.
- ^ Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography, R. Malatesha Joshi, Catherine McBride (2019), p. 27.
- ^ "Monier-Williams Sanskrit Dictionary 1899 Basic". www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
- ^ "Devanagari: Development, Amplification, and Standardisation". Central Hindi Directorate, Ministry of Education and Social Welfare, Govt. of India. 3 April 1977. Retrieved 3 April 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ Rajan, Vinodh; Sharma, Shriramana (2012-06-28). "L2/12-221: Comments on naming the "Siddham" encoding" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-08-19.
- ^ Chaudhuri, Saroj Kumar. Sanskrit in China and Japan. New Delhi: International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan, 2011.
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