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	Asiaweek.com
		Kharoshti writing system used in northwestern India between 300 BC and 400 AD.
		Believed to be derived from Aramaic, Kharoshti was probably brought to the subcontinent by Persians.
		It is written from right to left, whereas indigenous South Asian writings, including the Brahmi script that eventually replaced Kharoshti, go from left to right.
	www.pathfinder.com /asiaweek/96/0920/feat10.html (1137 words)

	Menander II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kharoshti legend: MAHARAJASA DHARMIKASA MENADRASA (Menander, King of the Dharma).
		Menander II "The Just" (reigned circa 90-85 BCE) was an Indo-Greek King who ruled in the areas of Arachosia and Gandhara in the north of modern Pakistan.
		The coins of Menander II bear the mention "Menander the Just", and "King of the Dharma " in Kharoshti, suggesting that he adopted the Buddhist faith.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Menander_II (595 words)

	Kujula Kadphises
		Kharoshti legend: KUJULA KASASA KUSHANA YAVUGASA DHARMATHIDASA "Kujula Kadphises the Pious ("of the Dharma"), Ruler of the Kushans".]]
		Kharoshti legend: KHUSHANA YAUASA KAPHASA SACHA DHARMATIDASA "Kujula Kadphises, Ruler of the Kushans, and Pious (of the "Dharma").]]
		These coins bear the name of Kujula Kadphises in Kharoshti, with representations of the Greek demi-god Heracles on the back, and titles ("Yavugasa") presenting Kujula as a "ruler" (not actual king), and a probable Buddhist ("Dharmathidasa", follower of the Dharma).
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http://articles.gourt.com/%22http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DKujula (715 words)

	Brief Guide to Kushan History
		From this he argued that the Kharoshti documents were dated in an era founded by the Indo-Parthian Azes and that for the sake of argument this era should be considered equivalent to the Vikrama era.
		Freed from the constraint of linking the kharoshti inscriptions to Azes I these authors proposed various alternative dates (under the name 'Old Saka Era'), mostly earlier than 58 BC (Konow 84 BC, Narain 88 BC, Lohuizen 129 BC).
		The only Kharoshti inscription which is certainly dated in the Greek era is the dual dated inscription 23.
	www.kushan.org /essays/chronology/azesvikrama.htm (2926 words)

	The wonders of literary exploration - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Kharoshti, which was derived from the Hebrew script.”
		Yes, says Richard G Salomon, one of the contributors to the book, Kharoshti grew out of Aramaic, but he doesn’t account for its use in North India.
		Instead, he says “Kharoshti arose in the western reaches of India which from the late sixth century BCE were under the control of the Achaemenian Empire, where Aremaic was widely used.” I’m now going to read every available history of western India.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/may302004/artic2.asp (628 words)

	Islam and Hinduism: Persian Heritage In Hindu Traditions
		The Zend Avesta may have been older than the Rigveda as its main deities of Varuna, Surya and Aryaman were the Purvi Devtas or old deities of the Rigveda.
		The Rigveda was originally writt en in the Kharoshti script that, like Persian and Arabic, is writt en from right to left.
		After Kharoshti came Brahmi Lipi, somewhat similar to the 'pinman' Akkadian script of ancient Babylon, then Pali and Gupta Lipi.
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/Islamand_Hinduism/id/50295 (695 words)

	Susan Sayre Batton: Separation Anxiety: Buddhist Gandharan Manuscript
		This manuscript was found in the Bhamiyan cave region in modern Afghanistan, purportedly from the 5th century, on birch bark, and written in the Kharoshti script.
		Early extant manuscripts date to the 2nd and 3rd centuries, written in the Kharoshti script.
		I was so afraid of losing the order or flipping the leaves, since I don’t read Kharoshti or Sanskrit, that we were extremely careful about collation.
	www.asianart.com /articles/batton/index.html (2479 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		Kharoshti writing system used in northwestern India between 300 BC and 400 AD.
		Believed to be derived from Aramaic, Kharoshti was probably brought to the subcontinent by Persians.
		It is written from right to left, whereas indigenous South Asian writings, including the Brahmi script that eventually replaced Kharoshti, go from left to right.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/96/0920/feat10.html (1137 words)

	TURKESTAN - LoveToKnow Article on TURKESTAN
		(iii.)At Niya, east of Kenya, where many Kharoshti documents on wood were frecovered, sometimes retaining their clay seals of Greek type and wooden covers as envelopes, together with implements, furniture, andc.
		Evidence of sttlment back to the close of the 2nd century A.D. was obtained, and also of commercial traffic from the distant west in the shape of records in Indian, Kharoshti and Brahmi scripts and an unknown script resembling Aramaic.
		The sacred grottoes krown as the Halls of the Thousand Buddhas, south-east of Tung-hwang, were visited, with their frescoes and cave temples, and a large number of documents and examples of early Chinese art were recovered.
	52.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TU/TURKESTAN.htm (9425 words)

	Witness testifies on stampage of stone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		To another question by counsel for Muslim parties Abdul Mannan, the witness replied that the stone inscription was in Nagri script and that all scripts including the Nagri and Kharoshti scripts are offshoots of Barhmini script, which is the mother script and was prevalent in India since 5th century BC.
		When quizzed further, the witness stated that normally Brahmini script is written from left to right like Hindi or English but it is often written from right to left like Urdu and Persian.
		But the Kharoshti script is usually written from right to left.
	web.mid-day.com /news/nation/2003/may/53068.htm (360 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		From this monastery the Kharoshti inscription also discovered on which the figure 46 has been written.
		The ancient Buddhist monastery is situated at the height of 5500 feet from the surrounding land.
		In 1908-9 Sandapora Kharoshti inscription and coins were discovered.
	greatmardan.4t.com /impo.htm (372 words)

	Coinage of the Indo Greeks
		The selucid king Antiochus I (293-280 BC) is shown on his coins with all the paths of humanity, the divine power is clearly reflected in Selucus's coins.
		Demeterios - I was the first ruler to strike square copper coins in bilingual format, Kharoshti on the reverse and Greek on the obverse.
		Silver coins underwent radical change upon the movement of government to south of Hindu Kush, and the coins were called Didrachm and Hemidrachms.
	prabhu.50g.com /indogrek/igrk_coinage.html (750 words)

	India History Culture Textile
		The first epigraphic evidence of Sanskrit is seen in 150 AD and this inscription is in Brahmi script.
		First Brahmi and Kharoshti inscription of roughly 500 BC have been discovered.
		-In 1834 James Princes discovered the clue to the Kharoshti alphabet from the bilingual Bactrion coins which enabled scholars for the first time to read the early inscriptions the contents of which had hitherto baffled interpretation and so to reconstruct pre-mohammadan history of the country.
	members.aol.com /ravinindia/myhomepage/business.html (4921 words)

	Critique 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Therefore, with regards to the identity of the author, we know that Xenophon, born 20CE in Takshashila (Taxila), student of letters, wrote AofT -first publishing it in chapters from 45CE onward and by 80CE (the year St. Siphor died) the first Eastern Bible canon was announced and it included AofT.
		Xenophon was fluent in Greek and Aramaic and additionally he mastered (at least) Sanskrit and Bactrian and the Kharoshti and Brahmi scripts.
		The first publication of the book was in Kharoshti but we know of Greek and Aramaic versions that circulated in the West.
	www.churchoftheeast.ca /archive/reading_acts_of_thomas%202_1.htm (1423 words)

	MENANDER - LoveToKnow Article on MENANDER
		Broach), the great port of Gujarat, about A.D. 70 we are told by the Periplus mans Erythraei, 48.
		We possess many of these coins, which follow the Indian standard and are artistically degenerate as compared with the earlier Graeco-Bactrian and Graeco-Indian coins, with bilingual legends (Greek and Kharoshti, see BACTRIA).
		Apollodotus, who must have been the earlier of the two kings, bears the titles Soter, Philopator, and Great King ; Menander, who must have reigned a long time, as his portrait is young on some coins and old on others, calls himself Soter and Just (~LKmoc).
	72.1911encyclopedia.org /M/ME/MENANDER.htm (1260 words)

	The COININDIA Coin Galleries: Kujula Kadphises (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		However, Kujula is named on the reverse, in the Kharoshti legend.
		The Kharoshti legend on this coin has not been seen on any other published coin of Kujula.
		The Greek legend has degraded to the point of being illegible, but the Kharoshti is well-formed.
	home.comcast.net /~pankajtandon/galleries-kujula.html (431 words)

	Re: Kharoshti
		It sounds like the sort of thing that is promoted to make a sale.
		On the other hand, I don't know anything about the Kharoshti language (except that Google spells it differently from you).
		I don't recall that any of my friends who work in this region have ever mentioned it.
	beadcollector.net /cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi?fvp=/openforum/&cmd=get&cG=5313537343&zu=3531353638&v=2&gV=0&p= (186 words)

	CONTENTS
		They are Kharoshti, Brahmi, symbolic word notation, and alphabetic notation, before the decimal came into being with the nine symbols and the zero.
		The Kharoshti script was written from right to left and the numerals followed this direction.
		The Kharoshti numerals with their additive and iterative principles appear to be the first stage in the growth of the Hindu notation.
	www.ms.uky.edu /~sohum/AAK/PRELUDE.htm (6020 words)

	Mulbekh Buddhist Heritage, Buddhism in Ladakh, Ladakh Buddhist Monasteries, Monasteries in Ladakh, Heritage Tourism in ...
		The figure is thought to date from the Kushan period, around the time of the birth of Christ.
		Inscriptions found on the side of the rock are in the Kharoshti script.
		A new small temple, which partly obscures the figure, was built in 1975.
	www.indiantravelportal.com /jammu-kashmir/buddhist-heritage/mulbekh.html (495 words)

	archive: Early Buddhist settlement found in Kashmir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		They bear swastika motifs (associated with Buddhism) and Kharoshti script.
		The Kharoshti script was popular in Kashmir in the early centuries of Christian era and ceased its popularity in circa fourth century, Mr Makhdoomi said.
		Adding the presence of Kharoshti numerals and swastika motif provided date of the site between second and third century A.D. Measuring 36 cm by 40 cm, they also bear Kharoshti numerical, which according to him, have been stamped to maintain the order of tiles in the layout.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0599/1.html (436 words)

	Cultural News: Top Stories
		The mission is searching for code breakers who will work with its team of manuscript savers so that the vast knowledge in these scripts can be passed on to posterity.
		'Some of these manuscripts are written in scripts no longer widely read—like Brahmi, Kharoshti, Sharda, and Grantha—and there are only one or two persons now living who can actually decode them,' Sudha Gopalan, the director of National Mission for Manuscripts said.
		He said that the Mission wants to organize workshops to train young people 'to be able to read, edit, as well comment on texts'.
	www.globalgoodnews.com /cultural-news-a.html?art=1094465676280535 (356 words)

	The Home of Pali
		They are a very exciting discovery as it has become apparent that they date from around the first century CE.
		They are written in a dialect of Prakrit in a script called Kharoshti, and the number of scholars it is said who can read this script are said to be merely a handful.
		The Kharoshti script was popular in the North Western part of India and dropped out of use by the time of the Islamic invasions of India.
	www.buddhanet.net /budsas/ebud/ebsut059.htm (7306 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Buddhist settlement unearthed in Kashmir
		The tiles discovered at Budgam, Mukhdoomi says, bear Kharoshti numerals.
		The deputy director said the Kharoshti numerals and Swastika motif give the date of the settlement, which is between 2nd and 3rd century AD.
		The Kharoshti language was prevalent in Kashmir from the 2nd century BC to the 4th century AD.
	www.indiaabroad.com /news/1999/may/08kash.htm (330 words)

	News Letter - 2000 Vol. VIII - Documentation of Central Asian Antiquities - Jointly sponsored by IGNCA and UNESCO ...
		Galaxy of scholars like Sven Hedin from Sweden, Sir Aurel Stein from British India, Albert von Lecoq and Grunwedel from Germany, Kozlov and Oldenburg from Russia and Paul Pelliot from France, explored and discovered the rich cultural heritage of this region during the early years of the last century.
		The art relics discovered include wall-paintings, silk-paintings and banners, stuccos, wood-carvings, Kharoshti documents, textiles, manuscripts and many other artifacts throwing considerable light on the Central Asian culture.Their discoveries and studies have revealed the nature and stages of growth of the Central Asian civilizations and its relation with the neighboring countries, specially India.
		The rich geographical, historical and cultural heritage of Central Asia, provided a strong foundation for fostering a dynamic cultural pluralism in the region and also for cross cultural dialogue.
	www.ignca.nic.in /nl_01410.htm (716 words)

	Phenomenon of Science: Chap. 9
		Numbers are first encountered in Indian writings in the third century B.C. At this time two forms of writing were used, Kharoshti and Brahmi, and each one had its own numerals.
		The Kharoshti system is interesting because the number four was selected as the intermediate stage between 1 and 10.
		It is likely that the oblique cross (x) used as a 4 tempted the creators of the Kharoshti numbers by its simplicity of writing while still preserving the modeling quality in full (four rays).
	pespmc1.vub.ac.be /POS/Turchap9.html (6072 words)

	Turkik Languages K. Gajendra Singh
		It is noteworthy that except for some inscriptions near Orhon river, which are in Turkish Rhunic script, which itself was derived from Aramaic (a fact contested by many experts), the mother script of Semitic languages, Turkish has been mostly written in the script of the ruled people.
		Brahmi, Kharoshti and Devanagri scripts, though not of the ruled, are perhaps the earliest of scripts used for writing Turkish as spoken by Uighur Turks in Eastern Turkistan.
		They were used in spite of many difficulties in expressing the Turkish vowels (not easier to write in Persian or Arabic script either) which do not exist in Hindustani languages.
	www.boloji.com /history/023.htm (6260 words)

	[No title]
		These coins with complete name of ruler, his father's name and date of issue, provided historians necessary evidence for determination of geneology of not only the Kshatrapa rulers but also immensely helped in deciphering the duration of reigns of their contemporary rulers in adjoining empires.
		Kharoshti script was primarily used in norht-western parts of India and since later Kshatrapas dominion was confined to western India where Brahmi script was used, Kharoshti was withdrawn from the coins.
		Similarly, all the coins of later Kshatrapas bear the chaitya or three arched hill and river symbol on reverse of their coins, instead of thunderbot and arrow.
	www.med.unc.edu /~nupam/kshatr1.html (4431 words)

	Iranian Language Family
		At least one language of the Pamir region, called Wakhi, can be credited with a Saka substratum, as well as another known as Ishkashimi.
		Saka was originally written in different scripts, including the Kharoshti script of northern India and eventually in a script derived from Devanagari.
		Modern descendants of Saka languages often lack a writing system or are written in Perso-Arabic and Cyrillic alphabets, as well as the pieces recorded by modern philologists in modified Latin script.
	www.iranologie.com /history/ilf.html (4556 words)

	Definition of History of Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The eastern part of central Asia ( Chinese Turkestan, Tarim Basin, Xinjiang) has revealed extremely rich Buddhist works of art (wall paintings and reliefs in numerous caves, portable paintings on canvas, sculpture, ritual objects), displaying multiple influences from Indian and Hellenistic cultures.
		Serindian art is highly reminiscent of the Gandharan style, and scriptures in the Gandhari script Kharoshti have been found.
		Central Asians seem to have played a key role in the transmission of Buddhism to the East.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/History_of_Buddhism (4930 words)

	Acts of Yesu our Lord and Saviour
		Not much is known about the history of this book.
		It is supposed that most of it was originally written in Kharoshti, the script also used for other works of the time.
		There is evidence of at most four editors at work, two of which seem to effect a major change in style.
	www.wayist.org /eb/Acts_of_Yesu.htm (178 words)

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