{"id":492,"date":"2011-06-01T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T03:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2011-09-18T16:36:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T23:36:20","slug":"bhattiprolu-100-bc-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/01\/bhattiprolu-100-bc-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhattiprolu &#8212; 100 BC, India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_493\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bhattiproluKa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-493\" class=\"size-full wp-image-493\" title=\"bhattiproluKa\" src=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bhattiproluKa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bhattiprolu &quot;ka&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bhattiprolu is a very close variant of Brahmi script.\u00a0 Some inscriptions were found at a site in Andhra Pradesh &#8212; on the Eastern coast of India, a bit south of the north-south center line but not yet at the southern tip of India &#8212; in 1870 AD.<\/p>\n<p>The site was a <em>stupa<\/em>, which originally was a monument to house remains of the Buddha.\u00a0 Nine inscriptions in the Bhattiprolu script were found in the original excavation and a later (1969 AD) excavation, with an important set of glyphs on the Buddha&#8217;s urn.\u00a0 Most were in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prakrit\">Prakrit<\/a>, which is a vernacular form of Sanskrit, but three had some words in the Telugu language.<\/p>\n<p>Links: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bhattiprolu_alphabet\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhattiprolu is a very close variant of Brahmi script.\u00a0 Some inscriptions were found at a site in Andhra Pradesh &#8212; on the Eastern coast of India, a bit south of the north-south center line but not yet at the southern &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/01\/bhattiprolu-100-bc-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-492","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\/492","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=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}