| Śāradā | |
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 Kashmiri Shaivaite manuscript (17th or 18th century) |
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| Type | Abugida |
| Spoken languages | Kashmiri Sanskrit |
| Time period | c. 800 CE–present (almost extinct) |
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| Child systems | Gurmukhī Takri Landa |
| Sister systems | Nāgarī Siddhaṃ |
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[a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon.
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The Śāradā, or Sharada, script (शारदा) is an abugida writing system of the Brahmic family of scripts, developed from ca. the 8th century. The Gurmukhī script was developed from Śāradā. Originally more widespread, its use became later restricted to Kashmir, and it is now rarely used except by the Kashmiri Pandit community for ceremonial purposes. Śāradā is another name for Saraswati, the goddess of learning.
The Śāradā script was accepted for encoding in the Unicode standard.[1][2]
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Sarada Manuscripts
Panjab Digital Library[3] is digitizing all available manuscripts in North-west India, including manuscripts of Śāradā Script.
See also
- Sharada Peeth in Kashmir
References
- ^ Pandey, Anshuman. 2005. Request to Allocate the Sharada Script in the Unicode Roadmap
- ^ Pandey, Anshuman. 2009. Proposal to Encode the Sharada Script in ISO/IEC 10646
- ^ Panjab Digital Library
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