Siddhaṃ script

Siddhaṃ (also Siddhāṃ) is an <a href="/facts/Brahmic_scripts/mwHJWt6d">Indic script</a> used in India from the 6th century to the 13th century. Also known in its later evolved form as Siddhamātṛkā, Siddham is a medieval <a href="/facts/Brahmic_scripts/mwHJWt6d">Brahmic</a> <a href="/facts/Abugida/FWhLePru">abugida</a>, derived from the <a href="/facts/Gupta_script/9JPzfTgL">Gupta script</a> and ancestral to the <a href="/facts/N%25C4%2581gar%25C4%25AB_script/ANaDXAnE">Nāgarī</a>, <a href="/facts/Eastern_Nagari/YV3phTFD">Eastern Nagari</a>, <a href="/facts/Tirhuta_script/eALHAv9f">Tirhuta</a>, <a href="/facts/Odia_script/05jEzRTV">Odia</a> and <a href="/facts/Nepalese_scripts/l4x35REk">Nepalese</a> scripts. The Siddham script was widely used by Indian Buddhists and still remains in use by <a href="/facts/East_Asian_Buddhism/e3eVsYvB">East Asian Buddhists</a>, especially for writing <a href="/facts/Mantra/V8bEogFp">mantras</a>, <a href="/facts/B%25C4%25ABjamantra/Ju2oENt0">seed syllables</a>, and <a href="/facts/Dharani/WVUDs7s0">dharanis</a>.
The word Siddhaṃ means "accomplished", "completed" or "perfected" in <a href="/facts/Sanskrit/ychfjhlx">Sanskrit</a>. 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 (<a href="/facts/Japanese_language/EEv485a5">Japanese</a>: 梵字) "<a href="/facts/Brahma/gmJ5YDk0">Brahma</a>'s characters" and "Sanskrit script" and <a href="/facts/Traditional_Chinese_characters/bBFLkuz7">Chinese</a>: 悉曇文字; <a href="/facts/Pinyin/pUwjfMXg">pinyin</a>: Xītán wénzi "Siddhaṃ script".

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Siddhaṃ script