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The Kharoṣṭhī script is an ancient Indic script used by the Gandhara culture of ancient Northwest South Asia (primarily modern-day Afghanistan and Pakistan) to write the Gāndhārī language (a dialect of Prakrit) and the Sanskrit language. An alphasyllabary, it was in use from the middle of the 3rd century BCE until it died out in its homeland around the 3rd century CE. It was also in use in Kushan, Sogdiana (see Issyk kurgan) and along the Silk Road where there is some evidence it may have survived until the 7th century in the remote way stations of Khotan and Niya. Kharoṣṭhī is encoded in the Unicode range U+10A00–U+10A5F, from version 4.1.0.

Kharoṣṭhī is mostly written right to left (type A), but some inscriptions (type B) already show the left to right direction that was to become universal for the later South Asian scripts.

Each syllable includes the short a sound by default, with other vowels being indicated by diacritic marks. Recent epigraphical evidence highlighted by Professor Richard Salomon of the University of Washington has shown that the order of letters in the Kharoṣṭhī script follows what has become known as the Arapacana Alphabet. As preserved in Sanskrit documents the alphabet runs:

Cryscythe

Cryscythe... time is right
Autumn is near, moon shines bright
It's time to find a new nest
For my nocturnal fest.
So many years, you have known
If theres a seed you gotta let grow
Once a seed, then a tree
That's how the story goes you see
You're like a leaf, dried out and falls from the tree
Another reason,another season
It's time to harvest what has grown...
It's time to let your tree grow free
I will leave you like light leaves us in fall
Cryscythe... will harvest all your tears... through the years
Cryscythe... time is right autumn is here,
And moon shines bright
Harvest fest in new nest
And you know the rest
Your tears... fall like rain,
Drop by drop like blood from vein,
The scythe has cut you it has made you bleed,
Those sweet tears are what I need.
I will leave you like light leaves us in fall
Cryscythe... will harvest all your tears
And I will leave you like light leaves us in fall
Cry... cryscythe... harvest fest through the years
...with all your tears...
Can't you see,
How leaves fall down from trees,
Another reason,another season
It's time to let my tree grow free...
I will leave you like light leaves us in fall
Cryscythe... will harvest all your tears
And I will leave you like light leave us in fall
Cry... cryscythe...harvest fest through the years

photo: AP / Emrah Gurel

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