Bhujimol is the name of the most ancient form of the Nepali script.
In 2003, a brick was discovered in Kathmandu, in the course of reconstruction of the Dhando Chaitya, bearing inscriptions in both Brahmi and Bhujimol: The upper face is inscribed with Cha Ru Wa Ti in Brahmi, and with Cha Ru Wa Ti Dhande / He Tu Pra Bha in the Newari Bhujimol script. There are Swastika marks at the two ends of the upper face with a Chakra mark in between. The brick measures 35.5cm x 23cm x 7cm and weighs 8.6 kg. The brick may date to as early as the 3rd century BC. The previously earliest known inscription in the Kathmandu valley dated to the 6th century, at the Changu Narayan in Mandeva. The inscription is interpreted to refer to Charumati, a daughter of king Ashoka's.
Bhujimol is the name of the most ancient form of the Nepali script.
In 2003, a brick was discovered in Kathmandu, in the course of reconstruction of the Dhando Chaitya, bearing inscriptions in both Brahmi and Bhujimol: The upper face is inscribed with Cha Ru Wa Ti in Brahmi, and with Cha Ru Wa Ti Dhande / He Tu Pra Bha in the Newari Bhujimol script.
The most prominent member of the family is Devanagari, which is used to write several languages of India and Nepal, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Nepal Bhasa and Sanskrit.
Other northern Brahmic scripts include the Bengali-Assamese script, the Oriya script, the Gujarati script, the Ranjana script, the Prachalit script, the Bhujimol script and the Gurmukhi script.
The Dravidian languages of southern India have Brahmic scripts with a rounded appearance (like in Telugu), as they were traditionally written on palm leaves, on which straight lines could not easily be formed.
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