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Kharoshthi script, used in northwestern India (5th century), is based on Aramaic of the Persian scribes.

C. Early Civilizations and Classical Empires of South and East Asia 2001

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chained_bear commented on the word Kharoshthi

Additional historical note/explanation on Kroraina.

"Early travelers also left messages and graffiti in two Indic scripts: one thousand in Kharoshthi, the script used at Niya, and four thousand in Brahmi, which replaced Kharoshthi throughout central Asia around 400 CE. The use of Kharoshthi script indicates that many of the travelers came from Gandhara. Since the fourth century BCE, when Alexander of Macedon conquered the Gandhara region, it was home to a cosmopolitan population with roots in Greece, India, and East Asia."
--Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2012), 30

December 30, 2016