Satavahana

Indic

script: Qa49
family: Indic
type: abugida
whitespace: unspecified
open_type_tag: none
complex_positioning: unknown
unicode: true
diacritics: true
status: Historical
baseline: unspecified
ligatures: unspecified
direction: ltr

The Satavahana dynasty was a royal Indian dynasty whose empire covered much of India from 230 BC possibly up until 220 AD. Satavahana rulers encouraged the use of the Prakrit language, although Sanskrit and Telegu were also used. They wrote in a Brahmic script about which little is known. The script appears to be closely related to Brahmi and there are conflicting reports as to whether they are simply variations of the same script.

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