Multiple choice

Which of the following scripts of ancient India was written from right to left?

  1. Brahmi

  2. Nandnagari

  3. Sharada

  4. Kharosthi
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Explanation

Kharosthi script was deciphered by James Prinsep (1799—1840), using the bilingual coins of the Indo-Greek period. This in turn led to the reading of the Edicts of Ashoka, some of which, from the northwest of the Asian subcontinent, were written in the Kharosthi script.

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