Editing Devanagari (section)

=== East Asia ===
In the 7th century, under the rule of [[Songtsen Gampo]] of the [[Tibetan Empire]], [[Thonmi Sambhota]] was sent to Nepal to open marriage negotiations with a [[Licchavi (kingdom)|Nepali]] princess and to find a writing system suitable for the [[Classical Tibetan|Tibetan]] language. He then invented the [[Tibetan script]] based on the Nāgarī used in Kashmir. He added 6 new characters for sounds that did not exist in Sanskrit.<ref>{{Cite book |first=William Woodville |last=Rockhill |url={{Google books|avFDAQAAMAAJ|Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution|page=671|plainurl=yes}} |title=Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution |publisher=United States National Museum |page=671}}</ref>

Other scripts closely related to Nāgarī (such as [[Siddhaṃ script|Siddhaṃ]]) were introduced throughout East and Southeast Asia from the 7th to the 10th centuries&nbsp;CE: notably in Indonesia, Vietnam, and Japan.<ref>{{Cite book |first=David |last=Quinter |date=2015 |title=From Outcasts to Emperors: Shingon Ritsu and the Mañjuśrī Cult in Medieval Japan |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-9004293397 |pages=63–65 with discussion on [[Uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī Sūtra]]}}</ref><ref name="richard">{{Cite book |first=Richard |last=Salomon |date=2014 |title=Indian Epigraphy |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0195356663 |pages=157–160}}</ref>

Most of the Southeast Asian scripts have roots in Dravidian scripts, but a few found in south-central regions of Java and isolated parts of southeast Asia resemble Devanāgarī or its prototypes. The [[Kawi script]] in particular is similar to the Devanāgarī in many respects, though the morphology of the script has local changes. The earliest inscriptions in the Devanāgarī-like scripts are from around the 10th century&nbsp;CE, with many more between the 11th and 14th centuries.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Teselkin |first=Avenir S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xJ1kAAAAMAAJ |title=Old Javanese (Kawi) |publisher=Cornell University Press |date=1972 |pages=9–14 |access-date=28 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126234553/https://books.google.com/books?id=xJ1kAAAAMAAJ |archive-date=26 January 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=de Casparis |first1=J. G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cLUfAAAAIAAJ |title=Indonesian Palaeography: A History of Writing in Indonesia from the Beginnings to c. AD&nbsp;1500 |publisher=BRILL Academic |date=1975 |isbn=90-04-04172-9 |pages=35–43 |access-date=28 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200313164916/https://books.google.com/books?id=cLUfAAAAIAAJ |archive-date=13 March 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Some of the old-Devanāgarī inscriptions are found in Hindu temples of Java, such as the [[Prambanan]] temple.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Zurbuchen |first=Mary S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y4kOAAAAYAAJ |title=Introduction to Old Javanese Language and Literature: A Kawi Prose Anthology |publisher=Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan |date=1976 |isbn=978-0-89148-053-2 |pages=xi–xii |access-date=28 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227150848/https://books.google.com/books?id=y4kOAAAAYAAJ |archive-date=27 February 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> The Ligor and the Kalasan inscriptions of central Java, dated to the 8th century, are also in the Nāgarī script of north India. According to the epigraphist and Asian Studies scholar Lawrence Briggs, these may be related to the 9th century copper plate inscription of Devapaladeva (Bengal) which is also in early Devanāgarī script.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Briggs |first=Lawrence Palmer |date=1950 |title=The Origin of the Sailendra Dynasty: Present Status of the Question |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society |publisher=JSTOR |volume=70 |issue=2 |pages=79–81 |doi=10.2307/595536 |issn=0003-0279 |jstor=595536}}</ref> The term kawi in Kawi script is a loan word from {{IAST|[[kāvya]]}} (poetry). According to anthropologists and Asian studies scholars [[John Norman Miksic]] and Goh Geok Yian, the 8th century version of early Nāgarī or Devanāgarī script was adopted in Java, [[Bali]], and Khmer around the 8th–9th centuries, as evidenced by the many contemporaneous inscriptions of this period.<ref name="MiksicYian2016p177">{{Cite book |last1=Miksic |first1=John Norman |last2=Yian |first2=Goh Geok |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zjklDwAAQBAJ |title=Ancient Southeast Asia |publisher=Taylor & Francis |date=2016 |isbn=978-1-317-27904-4 |pages=177–179, 314–322 |author-link=John N. Miksic |access-date=28 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200306072439/https://books.google.com/books?id=zjklDwAAQBAJ |archive-date=6 March 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{Gallery
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|File:Falongsibeiye.png| [[Uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī Sūtra]] in [[Siddhaṃ script|Siddhaṃ]] on [[Arecaceae|palm]] leaf in 609&nbsp;CE found in [[Hōryū-ji]], Japan. The last line is a complete Sanskrit [[syllabary]] in Siddhaṃ script.
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