Script - Kharoshthi
Kharoshthi is an ancient script used primarily in the northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent, including present-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and parts of Central Asia, from roughly the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE. It was employed for writing Gandhari Prakrit and other early Indo-Aryan languages, and it is notable for being written from right to left, a feature it shares with Aramaic, from which it likely descended. The script was used for official inscriptions, religious texts, and economic documents, particularly under the Kushan Empire, before being gradually replaced by the Brahmi-derived scripts. In modern digital encoding, each character of Kharoshthi is assigned its own code point, allowing for accurate representation and preservation of this historical writing system in electronic texts and linguistic research.