Khojki was a special script adopted and used almost exclusively by the Khoja community of the Indian subcontinent. It was employed primarily to record Ismaili religious literature.
Khojki was a special script adopted and used almost exclusively by the Khoja community of the Indian subcontinent.
According to Ismaili tradition, the da‘i Pir Sadruddin was responsible for devising the Khojki script as a vehicle for preserving the community’s sacred literature.
The Khojki materials that have survived are considerable, consisting of several hundred manuscripts, the vast majority of which contain ginan literature (the term ginan is believed to derive from the Sanskrit jnan or ‘knowledge’).
Dr Daudpota and Dr Gulam Ali Allana [2] have identified the Khojki script with the one used on storage jars, which bear short inscriptions in proto-nagari style of the eighth century A.D. The potsherds have been excavated by Dr. F.
The Khojki script system uses the same symbol for the long u and the short u; mostly it is the short u, as in ubha, udharea, upara, ugara, ect.
The Khojki script system uses the same symbol for the cerebral t as in words like popata, and th as in words like thama baetha.
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