Śāradā script

The Śāradā or Sharada script is an abugida writing system of the Brahmic family of scripts, developed around the 8th century. It was used for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri. The Gurmukhī script was developed from Śāradā. Originally more widespread, its use became later restricted to Kashmir, and it is now rarely used except by the Kashmiri Pandit community for ceremonial purposes. Śāradā is another name for Saraswati, the goddess of learning.

Letters

Independent vowel signs

Dependent vowel signs

Consonants

Numerals

Sharada script uses its own signs for the positional decimal numeral system.

Image gallery

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  Sharada vowels

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  Sharada consonant signs

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  Sanskrit (above; devanagari script) and Kashmiri language (below; sharada script)

Unicode

Śāradā script was added to the Unicode Standard in January, 2012 with the release of version 6.1.

The Unicode block for Śāradā script, called Sharada, is U+11180–U+111DF:

See also

• Sharada Peeth in Kashmir

References

External links

• ancientscripts.com
• Prevalence of the Śāradā Script in Afghanistan
• Akṣara List of the Manuscript of Abhidharmadīpa , ca. the 11th Century, Collection of Sanskrit Mss. Formerly Preserved in the China Ethnic Library
• Modern Kashmiri Dictionary: Android based electronic Kashmiri Dictionary