Overview Įxcerpt from " My experiments with truth" - the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi in its original Gujarati. Jain community also promoted its use for copying religious texts by hired writers. Later the same script was adopted by writers of manuscripts. This script became the basis of the modern script. It is also known as the śarāphī (banker's), vāṇiāśāī (merchant's) or mahājanī (trader's) script. Until the 19th century it was used mainly for writing letters and keeping accounts, while the Devanagari script was used for literature and academic writings. The use of shirorekha (the topline as in Devanagari) was abandoned. The third phase is the use of script developed for ease and fast writing. The earliest known document in the Old Gujarati script is a handwritten manuscript Adi Parva dating from 1591–92, and the script first appeared in print in a 1797 advertisement. In second phase, Old Gujarati script was in wide use. The first phase is marked by use of Prakrit, Apabramsa and its variants such as Paisaci, Shauraseni, Magadhi and Maharashtri. Gujarati language and script developed in three distinct phases - 10th to 15th century, 15th to 17th century and 17th to 19th century. The Gujarati script(ગુજરાતી લિપિ) was adapted from the Devanagari script to write the Gujarati language.
3 Gujarati letters, diacritics, and digits.
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