These are the earliest documents of a Dravidian language, and the script was well established in the Chera and Pandyan states, in what is now Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and northern Sri Lanka.
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One contained the word ‘Chera' (‘kadummipudha chera'), the earliest inscriptional evidence of the dynasty Chera.
Brāhmī script | Brahmi | Tamil-Brahmi | Brāhmī |
Before the invasion of Tibetans in 727, the official language of both the Palola shahis and the clergy was Brahmi, brought into the area after the 4th legendary Buddhist Conference in Jalandhar.
Linguists surmise that the Mauryan Brahmi evolved in the 3rd century BCE and travelled soon after to Bhattiprolu.
The Bower Manuscript is one of the oldest Sanskrit texts on birch bark using Brāhmī script.
The earliest definite evidence of Brahmi script in South India comes from Bhattiprolu in Andhra Pradesh.
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A date for Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions in Palani as early as the 6th century has also been claimed, but as of its 2011 announcement, Iravatham Mahadevan, "a leading authority on the Tamil-Brahmi and Indus scripts," and Dr. Y. Subbarayalu, Head of the Department of Indology at the French Institute of Pondicherry, cautioned that it was difficult to reach a conclusion on the basis of one single scientific dating.
Brahmi is clearly attested from the 3rd century BC during the reign of Ashoka, who used the script for imperial edicts, but there are some claims of earlier epigraphy found on pottery in South India and Sri Lanka.
Inscriptions in Tamil-Brahmi script from the late 1st century AD bearing his name (Korra-Puman - Korra The Chieftain) were excavated on an amphora fragment at the international Roman trading port of Berenice Troglodytica in present day Egypt.
If Ledyard is correct, the graphic base of hangul is part of the great family of alphabets that spread from the Phoenician alphabet, through Aramaic, Brāhmī, and Tibetan.
James Prinsep in 1837, noted that most of them ended with the same two Brahmi characters.
Like other Muslims, he learned the reading of the Qur'an in his village Brahmi and then went to the nearest available schools in the towns of Halwara, famous for its Indian Air Force base, to receive his education.
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-- Please do not remove 'Abu Anees': this is his full name as signed in his books--> Muhammad Barkat Ali Al-Ludhianiwi (Quddisa Sirrahul Aziz; 27 April 1911 – 26 January 1997), also referred to as Babaji Sarkar by his disciples, was a Muslim Sufi saint who belongs to Chishtia order of Hazrat Baba Farid Gunj-e-Shakar R.A., born in a small village of Brahmi in the Tehsil of Ludhiana in Northern British India.