Last Year's Glimpses – 2024
📢 The workshop will be held from June 18 to 25, 2025. Stay updated for more details.!
Workshop on Ancient Indian Scripts
🗓️Dates: 18th – 24th June 2025
Overview
The earliest traces of writing in India date back to the Indus Valley Civilization, seen in seals and sealings. Although the Indus script remains undeciphered, India’s script history evolved significantly during the Early Historic period with the emergence of Brahmi and Kharoshthi scripts.
While Kharoshthi faded by the 3rd century CE, Brahmi flourished and evolved into several regional scripts. This 7-day intensive workshop focuses on Brahmi and its later derivatives, offering both theoretical and hands-on training.
Objectives
- Introduction to Ashokan Brahmi script and reading original inscriptions.
- Study of later Brahmi forms: Satavahana, Kushana, Ikshvaku, Gupta, and Box-headed Brahmi.
- Overview of Brahmi-derived scripts: Siddhamātr̥kā, Proto-Bengali, and Sharada.
- Training through photographs and estampages of actual inscriptions.
- Special input sessions on language dynamics and historical linguistics.
Invited Resource Persons
- Dr. Dharmveer Sharma – Delhi
2. Dr. Abhijit Dandekar – Pune
3. Dr. Ravi Shankar – Mysore
4. Dr. J.K. Ojha – Udaipur
5. Dr. Suraj Rao – Ajmer
6. Dr. Ishawarsharan Vishvakarma
7. Dr. Om Ji Upadhayay
8. Dr. Ajit Kumar Baishya
🗓️ Daily Schedule
📅 18th June 2025
- History of Languages (90 min)
- Indus Script (90 min)
- Prakrit Language (90 min)
📅 19th June 2025
- Rajasthani Script (90 min)
- Brahmi Script (90 min)
- Kharoshthi Script (90 min)
📅 20th June 2025
- Rajasthani Script (90 min)
- Brahmi Script (90 min)
- Kharoshthi Script (90 min)
📅 21st June 2025
- Rajasthani Script (90 min)
- Brahmi Script (90 min)
- Kharoshthi Script (90 min)
📅 22nd June 2025
• Rajasthani Script (90 min)
• Brahmi Script (90 min)
• Kharoshthi Script (90 min)
📅 23rd June 2025
- Rajasthani Script (90 min)
- Brahmi Script (90 min)
- Kharoshthi Script (90 min)
📅 24th June 2025
- Rajasthani Script (90 min)
- Brahmi Script (90 min)
- Kharoshthi Script (90 min)
- Valedictory Session (90 min)
