{"id":362,"date":"2011-04-02T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2011-04-02T22:37:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T05:37:33","slug":"gupta-400-ad-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/02\/gupta-400-ad-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Gupta &#8212; 400 AD, India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_363\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/guptaSa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-363\" class=\"size-full wp-image-363\" title=\"guptaSa\" src=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/guptaSa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gupta &quot;sa&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gupta was an immediate descendant of <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/13\/brahmi-400-bc-india\/\">Brahmi<\/a>, used in Northern India from about 400-800 AD, and the forerunner of many important scripts of Northern India and the Himalaya.<\/p>\n<p>The Gupta empire was very powerful and important.\u00a0 &#8220;Gupta&#8221; is still a common name in India today.<\/p>\n<p>Surviving examples of the script are mostly on stone and iron pillars, and on gold coins.\u00a0 If you want to leave a message for the future, stamping it on coins is probably a good way to do it.\u00a0 (I am a little concerned that future archeologists will think that Canadians worshiped loons, beavers, and moose, and that Americans spoke Latin.)<\/p>\n<p>Links: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gupta_script\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientscripts.com\/gupta.html\">Ancient Scripts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/gupta.htm\">Omniglot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientscripts.com\/sa_ws_cmp.html\">Indic writing systems comparison<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gupta was an immediate descendant of Brahmi, used in Northern India from about 400-800 AD, and the forerunner of many important scripts of Northern India and the Himalaya. The Gupta empire was very powerful and important.\u00a0 &#8220;Gupta&#8221; is still a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/02\/gupta-400-ad-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abugida","category-hohum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}