Origin Current in Indian inscriptions and manuscripts from about the sixth century CE.
Siddhamatrka is the North Indian script hand that grows out of the late Brahmi of the Gupta period and is current in Indian inscriptions and manuscripts from about the sixth century CE. It is the direct ancestor of the Siddham script used in East Asian Buddhist calligraphy for the Sanskrit of tantric texts and seed syllables, and stands alongside Brahmi's other descendants, Devanagari, Sharada and the rest, as one of the intermediate Gupta-period hands from which the later Brahmic scripts of South Asia diverged.
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Origin PeriodCurrent in Indian inscriptions and manuscripts from about the sixth century CE. 1 Place of Origin Attributions
TraditionA Brahmic script ancestral to Devanagari and to the Siddham script used to write Buddhist texts in East Asia. 1 Identity
Script TypeAn abugida of the Gupta Brahmi tradition. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Grows out of the late Brahmi of the Gupta period.
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