Editing Telugu script (section)

==History==
The [[Brāhmī script|Brahmi script]] used by [[Mauryan]] kings eventually reached the [[Krishna River]] delta and would give rise to the [[Bhattiprolu Script|Bhattiprolu script]] found on an urn purported to contain Lord [[Buddha]]'s relics.<ref>Antiquity of Telugu language and script: http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/20/stories/2007122054820600.htm</ref><ref>[http://www.buddhavihara.in/ancient.htm Ananda Buddha Vihara<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930085421/http://www.buddhavihara.in/ancient.htm |date=2007-09-30 }}</ref> [[Buddhism]] spread to [[East Asia]] from the nearby ports of [[Ghantasala (town)|Ghantasala]] and [[Masulipatnam]] (ancient Maisolos of [[Ptolemy]] and Masalia of [[Periplus]]).<ref>[http://www.wuys.com/news/Article_Show.asp?ArticleID=8303 The Great Stupa at Nagarjunakonda in Southern India-【佛学研究网】 佛教文化网 中国佛教网 中国佛学网 佛教信息网 佛教研究 佛学讲座 禅学讲座 吴言生说禅<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>[[Kadamba script]] developed by the Kadamba dynasty  was derived from the [[Brahmi script]] and later evolved  into the [[Telugu-Kannada script]] after the 7th century.<ref name="epigraphy" /><ref name="Florian Coulmas p. 228">The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems by Florian Coulmas, p. 228</ref><ref name="Akshara Orthography 2019 p. 29">Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography, R. Malatesha Joshi, Catherine McBride (2019), p. 29</ref> The Telugu and Kannada scripts then separated by around 1300 CE.<ref name=epigraphy>Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in the Indo-Aryan Languages, by Richard Solomon, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 35, 40–41, {{ISBN|0-19-509984-2}}</ref><ref name="Murthy">{{cite web |last1=Murthy |first1=K.N. |last2=Rao |first2=G.U. |date=April 2002 |title=Telugu Script |url=http://www.tdil.meity.gov.in/pdf/Vishwabharat/5/4.5.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180218210257/http://www.tdil.meity.gov.in/pdf/Vishwabharat/5/4.5.pdf |archive-date=2018-02-18 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Diringer |first1=David |title=The Alphabet: A Key to the History of Mankind |date=1948 |page=381 |author-link=David Diringer}}</ref> The Muslim historian and scholar [[Al-Biruni]] referred to both the Telugu language as well as its script as "Andhri".<ref>
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|author=Al-biruni
|author-link=Al-biruni
|title=English translation of 'Kitab-ul Hind'
|publisher=National Book Trust
|location=New Delhi}}
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