Siddhaṃ
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Brahmic script, used for writing Sanskrit from c. 550 – c. 1200, and later employed in Mikkyō (Japanese esoteric Buddhism) for religious purposes
Key facts
- Script type
- Abugida
- Period
- c. late 6th century – c. 1200 CE
- Direction
- Left-to-right
- Languages
- Sanskrit
- Parent systems
- Egyptian Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic Brahmi Gupta Siddham script
- Child systems
- Nagari Gaudi script Assamese Bengali Odia Tirhuta Nepalese
- Sister systems
- Sharada Tibetan , Kalinga , Bhaiksuki
- Iso 15924
- Sidd (302) , Siddham, Siddhaṃ, Siddhamātṛkā
- Unicode alias
- Siddham
- Unicode range
- U+11580 – U+115FF , Final Accepted Script Proposal , Variant Forms
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Pratisara Mantra1.png
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- Unicode range
- U+11580-115FF
- Commons category
- Siddham script
- native label
- सिद्धं
- name
- Siddham
- inception
- 0600-00-00
- end time
- 1200-00-00
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Siddhaṃ (also known as Kutila) is an Indic script used in India from the 6th century to the 13th century. Also known in its later evolved form as Siddhamātṛkā, Siddham is a medieval Brahmic abugida, derived from the Gupta script and ancestral to the Nāgarī, Eastern Nagari, Tirhuta, Odia and Nepalese scripts. The Siddham script was widely used by Indian Buddhists and still remains in use by East Asian Buddhists, especially for writing mantras, seed syllables, and dharanis.
The word Siddhaṃ means "accomplished", "completed" 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. 'Brahma's characters'), "Sanskrit script", and xitan wenzi (simplified Chinese: 悉昙文字; traditional Chinese: 悉曇文字; pinyin: Xītán wénzi; lit. 'Siddham script').