Creation of precise alphabet fonts of early Brahmi script from photographic data of ancient Sri Lankan inscriptions
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Inscriptions are used as resources for studying ancient history of any counties of the world. Brahmi script is one of the most important ancient letters in South Asia. It became the matrix of Debanagari character used for Sanskrit and Hindi. And, it produced Burmese script, Khmer script, Thai alphabet, Laotian alphabet, Tibetan alphabet, etc., during the last two thousand years. The aim of this paper is to study the evolution of Brahmi script into Sinhala script on the basis of ancient Sri Lankan documents inscribed on stone surface. With the aid of modern techniques of computer image processing, precise alphabet fonts of early Brahmi scripts has been produced from photographic data of ancient Sri Lankan inscriptions. It has been shown that the produced fonts is available for establishing a method of automatic reading of ancient inscriptions by computers.
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