Gupta script

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The Gupta script (sometimes referred to as Gupta Brahmi script or Late Brahmi script) was used for writing Sanskrit and is associated with the Gupta Empire of the Indian subcontinent, which was a period of material prosperity and great religious and scientific developments.

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Image: 6th century CE engraver. inked impression and photograph by J.F. Fleet (1847 – 21 February 1917) in 1888, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.