Kalinga script
Historic Brahmic script / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Kalinga script or Southern Nagari[2] is a Brahmic script used in the region of what is now modern-day Odisha, India and was primarily used to write Odia language in the inscriptions of the kingdom of Kalinga which was under the reign of early Eastern Ganga dynasty.[1] By the 12th century, with the defeat of the Somavamshi dynasty by the Eastern Ganga monarch Anantavarman Chodaganga and the subsequent reunification of the Trikalinga(the three regions of ancient Odra- Kalinga, Utkala and Dakshina Koshala) region, the Kalinga script got replaced by the Siddhaṃ script-derived Proto-Oriya script which became the ancestor of the modern Odia script.[3][4][5]
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Devendravarma (Ganga), Sanskrit in Mixed Kalinga script, 9th century AD. Copper plates, exhibited in the National Museum, New Delhi, India | |
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Time period | c. 600 - 1100 CE[1] |
Languages | Odia language |
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Sister systems | Siddham, Sharada, Tibetan, Bhaiksuki |
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