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Also known as Sidd, Siddhaṃ script, Siddhaṃ alphabet

Brahmic script, used for writing Sanskrit from c. 550 – c. 1200, and later employed in Mikkyō (Japanese esoteric Buddhism) for religious purposes

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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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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').

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