Siddham
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Siddhaṃ |
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The word Siddhaṃ in the Siddhaṃ script
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| Type | |
| Languages | Sanskrit |
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Time period
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c. 600–c. 1200 in India, and to the present in East Asia |
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Parent systems
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Aramaic alphabet
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Child systems
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Assamese alphabet Bengali alphabet Tibetan alphabet |
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Sister systems
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Nāgarī Śāradā |
| Direction | Left-to-right |
| ISO 15924 | Sidd, 302 |
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Unicode alias
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Siddham |
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U+11580–U+115FF |
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U+11580–U+115FF
Final Accepted Script Proposal
Siddhaṃ, also known in its later evolved form as Siddhamātṛkā, is the name of a script used for writing Sanskrit from c. 600-1200. It is descended from the Brahmi script via the Gupta script and later evolved into the Assamese alphabet, the Bengali alphabet, and the Tibetan alphabet. There is some confusion over the spelling: Siddhāṃ and Siddhaṃ are both common, though Siddhaṃ is preferred as "correct". The script is a refinement of the script used during the Gupta Empire.
The word Siddhaṃ means "accomplished" or "perfected" in Sanskrit. The script received its name from the practice of writing Siddhaṃ, or Siddhaṃ astu (may there be perfection), at the head of documents. Other names for the script include bonji (Japanese: 梵字) lit. "Buddhist characters" and "Sanskrit script") and Chinese: 悉曇文字; pinyin: Xītán wénzi lit. "Siddham script".
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