Editing Gupta script (section)

{{short description|Script system used to write Sanskrit}}
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{{Infobox Writing system
| name        = Gupta script<br/><small>(Late Brahmi script)</small>
| type        = [[Abugida]]
| sample      = Barabar Caves Gopika Cave Inscription of Anantavarman 5th- or 6th-century CE Sanskrit in Gupta script.jpg
| caption     = The [[Gopika Cave Inscription]] of Anantavarman, in the [[Sanskrit]] language and using the Gupta script. [[Barabar Caves]] in [[Jehanabad]] Bihar, 5th or 6th century CE.
| languages   = [[Sanskrit]]
| time        = {{Circa|4th}}–6th century CE<ref>{{cite book |last1=Salomon |first1=Richard |title=Indian Epigraphy |date=1998 |page=32}}</ref>
| fam1        = [[Egyptian hieroglyphs|Egyptian]]
| fam2        = [[Proto-Sinaitic]]
| fam3        = [[Phoenician alphabet|Phoenician]]
| fam4        = [[Aramaic alphabet|Aramaic]]
| fam5        = [[Brahmi script|Brahmi]]
| fam6        = Northern Brahmi
| sisters     = [[Pallava script]], [[Kadamba script]], [[Sinhala script|Sinhala]], [[Tocharian script|Tocharian]]
| children    = *[[Sharada script|Sharada]]
*[[Siddham script|Siddham]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/epigraphyindianepigraphyrichardsalmonoup_908_D|title=Epigraphy, Indian Epigraphy Richard Salmon OUP|via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography, R. Malatesha Joshi, Catherine McBride(2019),p.27</ref>
*[[Tibetan script|Tibetan]]<ref name=daniels>{{citation |last1=Daniels |first1=P. T. |title=Writing systems of major and minor languages |date=January 2008}}</ref><ref name="masica">{{cite book |last1=Masica |first1=Colin |title=The Indo-Aryan languages |date=1993 |page=143}}</ref>
*[[Kalinga script|Kalinga]]
*[[Bhaiksuki script|Bhaiksuki]]}}
{{brahmic}}
The '''Gupta script''' (sometimes referred to as '''Gupta Brahmi script''' or '''Late Brahmi script''')<ref name=sharma>Sharma, Ram. '' 'Brahmi Script' ''. Delhi: BR Publishing Corp, 2002</ref> was used for writing [[Sanskrit]] and is associated with the [[Gupta Empire]] of the [[Indian subcontinent]], which was a period of material prosperity and great [[Religion|religious]] and [[Science|scientific]] developments. The Gupta script was descended from [[Brahmi script|Brāhmī]] and gave rise to the [[Sharada script|Śāradā]] and [[Siddhaṃ script|Siddhaṃ]] scripts. These scripts in turn gave rise to many of the most important Indic scripts, including [[Devanagari|Devanāgarī]] (the most common script used for writing [[Sanskrit]] since the 19th century), the [[Gurmukhi|Gurmukhī script]] for [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], the [[Odia script]], the [[Bengali-Assamese script]] and the [[Tibetan script]].