Script - Brahmi
Brahmi is an ancient script of South Asia, dating back to the 3rd century BCE, and it serves as the historical ancestor for numerous modern writing systems, including Devanagari, Tamil, and Bengali. In text processing, its script value identifies characters that were historically written in this early alphanumeric system, covering a range of symbols from vowels and consonants to numeral signs and punctuation. This value helps software correctly render and analyze Brahmi inscriptions, enabling scholars and digital tools to preserve and study early Buddhist and Ashokan edicts, as well as other epigraphic records from the Indian subcontinent. It also distinguishes Brahmi from later derivatives, facilitating precise linguistic and historical research.