Crossword-Solution: BRAHMI
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BRAHMI | anagram | MIHRAB |
We have 8 clues for the answer “BRAHMI”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AYURVEDIC herb used by ancient scholars/monks for memorising long mantras | 1 answer |
| INDIAN mother-alphabet | 1 answer |
| water hyssop | 1 answer |
| INDIAN alphabet | 2 answers |
| creeping perennial herb | 3 answers |
| CREEPING herb | 6 answers |
| POND plant | 10 answers |
| creeping plant | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BRAHMI (5)
The inscriptions of Asoka present two alphabets, which differ radically and widely: one of them is known as the Brahmi; the other, as the Kharoshthi or Kharoshtri.
The Brahmi alphabet, written from left to right, belonged to the remainder of India; but it must also have been current in learned circles even in the territory where popular usage favoured the other script.
Also, the theory is largely based on a coin from Eran, in the Saugar district, Central Provinces, presenting a Brahmi legend running retrograde from right to left; from which it is inferred that that was the original direction of this writing, and that the script eventually assumed the other direction, which alone it has in the inscriptions, after passing, like the Greek, through a stage in which the lines were written in both directions alternately.
Further, if there is any radical connexion between the Brahmi and the Semitic alphabet indicated above, so many curious and apparently capricious changes must have been made, in adapting that alphabet, that it would seem more probable that the two scripts were derived from a joint original source.
The Brahmi alphabet is the parent of all the modern Hindu scripts, including on one side the Nagari or Devanagari, and on the other the widely dissimilar rounded forms of the Kanarese, Tamil, Telugu, and other southern alphabets; and the inscriptions enable us to trace clearly the gradual development of all the modern forms.
Quotes with BRAHMI (3)
From Brahma Puranब्राह्मीं च वैष्णवीं भद्रां, षड्-भुजां च चतुर्मुखीम्। त्रि-नेत्रां खड्ग-त्रिशूल-पद्म-चक्र-गदा-धराम्॥पीताम्बर-धरां देवीं, नानाऽलंकार-भूषिताम्। तेजः-पुञ्ज-धरीं श्रेष्ठां, ध्यायेद् बाल-कुमारिकाम्॥Meditate on youthful Brahmi* and Vaishnavi* surely, With six hands, four faces, three eyes gives safety, With sword, trident, lotus, wheel, globe, mace be, Greatest — yellow dressed, well decorated elegantly.
Sometimes, in the ancient writing samples found in the Indian subcontinent, we find that a mixture of Harappan and Brahmi features has been used. This definitely points towards a continuous evolutionary process that transformed the Harappan script into the later day Brahmi. This also explains why many of the Harappan signs seem to have been simply carried forward (even in actual form) in the Brahmi script.
Considering the fact that the Harappan script may have been proto-Brahmi, the underlying language to be expected should be Sanskrit, or proto-Sanskrit, or derivatives of Sanskrit. Many of the rules of evolution that apply to scripts are equivalently true for languages too. Like scripts, languages too render themselves to similar evolutionary inspections, as they too carry imprints of their journey down the ages.