Scripts

Scripts hierarchy

Scripts are arranged in a hierarchy, represented below. Some script identifiers have the form X_other, where X is the identifier of the parent category. They represent the remainder of the parent category.

Any [any]
- Source Script [source]
  - Arabic [arabic]
    - Jawi [jawi]
    - Arabic (other) [arabic_other]
  - Brāhmī [brāhmī]
    - Northern Brāhmī [brāhmī_northern]
      - Bhaikṣukī [bhaikṣukī]
      - Gauḍī [gauḍī]
      - Nāgarī [nāgarī]
      - Siddhamātr̥kā [siddhamātr̥kā]
      - Northern Brāhmī (other) [brāhmī_northern_other]
    - Southeast Asian Brāhmī [brāhmī_southeast_asian]
      - Balinese [balinese]
      - Batak [batak]
      - Cam [cam]
      - Kawi [kawi]
      - Khmer [khmer]
      - Mon-Burmese [mon-burmese]
      - Old West Javanese [javanese_old_west]
      - Pyu [pyu]
      - Sundanese [sundanese]
      - Southeast Asian Brāhmī (other) [brāhmī_southeast_asian_other]
    - Southern Brāhmī [brāhmī_southern]
      - Grantha [grantha]
      - Kannada [kannada]
      - Tamil [tamil]
      - Telugu [telugu]
      - Vaṭṭeḻuttu [vaṭṭeḻuttu]
      - Southern Brāhmī (other) [brāhmī_southern_other]
    - Brāhmī (other) [brāhmī_other]
  - Chinese [chinese]
  - Kharoṣṭhī [kharoṣṭhī]
  - Source Script (other) [source_other]
- Study Script [study]
  - Latin [latin]
  - Study Script (other) [study_other]
- Any (other) [any_other]

Statistics

The following only displays scripts that currently appear in the DHARMA database.

Brāhmī (other) [brāhmī_other] (3 texts)

Repositories: tfa-pallava-epigraphy (2), tfb-karnataka-epigraphy (1).

Editors: Emmanuel Francis (3), Valérie Gillet (1), Samana Gururaja (1).

Brāhmī, Southeast Asian (other) [brāhmī_southeast_asian_other] (4 texts)

Repositories: tfc-nusantara-epigraphy (3), tfa-pallava-epigraphy (1).

Editors: Arlo Griffiths (3), Emmanuel Francis (2).

Brāhmī, Southern (other) [brāhmī_southern_other] (583 texts)

Repositories: siddham (427), tfb-vengicalukya-epigraphy (106), tfa-pallava-epigraphy (25), tfb-eiad-epigraphy (16), tfb-badamicalukya-epigraphy (9).

Editors: Dániel Balogh (542), Csaba Kiss (161), Emmanuel Francis (26), Arlo Griffiths (16), Vincent Tournier (15), Timothy Lubin (1), Csaba Dezsö (1), Andrew Ollett (1).

Cam [cam] (107 texts)

Repositories: tfc-campa-epigraphy (107).

Editors: Arlo Griffiths (106), Salomé Pichon (77), Dániel Balogh (2), Dominic Goodall (1).

Grantha [grantha] (222 texts)

Repositories: south-indian-inscriptions (103), tfa-pallava-epigraphy (69), tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy (19), tfa-pandya-epigraphy (19), tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy (10), tfa-kotumpalur-epigraphy (1), tfa-cirkali-epigraphy (1).

Editors: Emmanuel Francis (202), Margherita Trento (10), G. Vijayavenugopal (9), Dorotea Operato (7), Vincent Tournier (1), Valérie Gillet (1), Uthaya Veluppillai (1), Amandine Wattelier-Bricout (1).

Kannada [kannada] (25 texts)

Repositories: tfb-kalyanacalukya-epigraphy (22), south-indian-inscriptions (2), tfb-karnataka-epigraphy (1).

Editors: Antonella Santoro (22), Florinda De Simini (1), Emmanuel Francis (1).

Kawi [kawi] (99 texts)

Repositories: tfc-nusantara-epigraphy (99).

Editors: Arlo Griffiths (99), Eko Bastiawan (39), Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan (9), Tyassanti Kusumo Dewanti (6), Mekhola Gomes (5), Marine Schoettel (3), Titi Surti Nastiti (1), Csaba Dezsö (1).

Khmer [khmer] (935 texts)

Repositories: tfc-khmer-epigraphy (935).

Editors: Kunthea Chhom (732), Chloé Chollet (166), Dominique Soutif (156), Dominic Goodall (72), Gerdi Gerschheimer (55), Arlo Griffiths (44), Salomé Pichon (40), Chhunteng Hun (13), Julia Estève (11), Emmanuel Francis (2), Anjaneya Sarma (1).

Nāgarī [nāgarī] (3 texts)

Repositories: south-indian-inscriptions (2), tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy (1).

Editors: Emmanuel Francis (2), Margherita Trento (1).

Siddhamātr̥kā [siddhamātr̥kā] (7 texts)

Repositories: tfb-bengalded-epigraphy (5), south-indian-inscriptions (2).

Editors: Rajat Sanyal (5), Arlo Griffiths (5), Emmanuel Francis (2), Vincent Tournier (1).

Source Script (other) [source_other] (1672 texts)

Repositories: tfb-satavahana-epigraphy (511), south-indian-inscriptions (292), tfb-eiad-epigraphy (166), tfc-nusantara-epigraphy (115), tfb-telugu-epigraphy (101), tfb-maitraka-epigraphy (84), tfd-nusantara-philology (80), tfb-bengalcharters-epigraphy (62), tfb-daksinakosala-epigraphy (47), tfb-somavamsin-epigraphy (38), tfb-kalyanacalukya-epigraphy (28), test (28), tfb-vengicalukya-epigraphy (27), BESTOW (25), tfb-ec-epigraphy (11), tfb-tunga-epigraphy (10), tfb-nandodbhava-epigraphy (8), tfc-khmer-epigraphy (7), tfc-campa-epigraphy (7), tfd-sanskrit-philology (6), tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy (6), tfa-pallava-epigraphy (6), tfb-nalodbhava-epigraphy (3), tfb-parivrajaka-epigraphy (1), tfb-bhaumakara-epigraphy (1), tfb-arakan-epigraphy (1), tfa-cempiyan-mahadevi-epigraphy (1).

Editors: Vincent Tournier (675), Arlo Griffiths (325), Dorotea Operato (168), Emmanuel Francis (143), Andrew Ollett (105), Jens Thomas (101), Amandine Wattelier-Bricout (101), Annette Schmiedchen (85), Kelsey Martini (70), Natasja Bosma (47), Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan (42), Ryosuke Furui (41), Dániel Balogh (40), Marine Schoettel (34), Aditia Gunawan (31), Samana Gururaja (20), Eko Bastiawan (13), Michaël Meyer (12), Zakariya Pamuji Aminullah (9), Timothy Lubin (8), Antonella Santoro (8), Ilham Nurwansah (5), Tyassanti Kusumo Dewanti (4), Nurmalia Habibah (4), Andrea Acri (4), Salomé Pichon (3), Ryugen Tanemura (3), Putu Eka Guna Yasa (3), I Gde Agus Darma Putra (3), Chloé Chollet (3), Kunthea Chhom (2), Shiori Ijuin (1), Renato Dávalos (1), Nicholas Lua Swee Yang (1), Nina Mirnig (1), Nicolas Cane (1), Helen Creese (1), Fu Fan (1), Dominic Goodall (1), Dewa Ayu Carma Citrawati (1).

Tamil [tamil] (2603 texts)

Repositories: south-indian-inscriptions (1716), tfa-pallava-epigraphy (341), tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy (280), tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy (74), tfa-cirkali-epigraphy (55), tfa-pandya-epigraphy (37), tfa-kotumpalur-epigraphy (35), tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy (20), tfa-uttiramerur-epigraphy (17), tfa-tamil-outside-TN-epigraphy (17), tfa-cempiyan-mahadevi-epigraphy (11).

Editors: Emmanuel Francis (1853), Dorotea Operato (631), G. Vijayavenugopal (164), Renato Dávalos (96), Margherita Trento (61), Valérie Gillet (56), Uthaya Veluppillai (55), Nicolas Cane (11), N. Ramaswamy (4), Vigneshwaran Muralidaran (3), S.A.S. Sarma (3).

Telugu [telugu] (19 texts)

Repositories: south-indian-inscriptions (11), tfa-pallava-epigraphy (4), tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy (3), tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy (1).

Editors: Emmanuel Francis (16), Margherita Trento (3), G. Vijayavenugopal (1).

Vaṭṭeḻuttu [vaṭṭeḻuttu] (177 texts)

Repositories: south-indian-inscriptions (108), tfa-pallava-epigraphy (60), tfa-pandya-epigraphy (9).

Editors: Emmanuel Francis (177), Valérie Gillet (2), Amandine Wattelier-Bricout (1).