History and Research
Since 1886 there have been systematic attempts to collect and catalogue these inscriptions, along with the translation and publication of documents. Inscriptions may be in Brāhmī script or Tamil-Brahmi script developed by Sramanic system or Kannada script or even the still undeciphered Indus script. Royal inscriptions were also engraved on copper-plates as were the Copper-plate grant. Ashokan edicts contain Brahmi script and its regional variant Tamil-Brahmi was an early script used in the inscriptions in cave walls of Tamilnadu and later evolved into the Tamil Vatteluttu script. The Bhattiprolu script (also a variant of Brahmi) of the early centuries BCE gave rise to Old-Kannada script also called Kannada-Telugu script and later developed into Kannada and Telugu scripts.
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