Kalinga script
| Kalinga script | |
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Devendravarma (Ganga), Sanskrit in Mixed Kalinga script, 9th century AD. Copper plates, exhibited in the National Museum, New Delhi, India | |
| Script type | |
Period | c. 600 - 1100 CE |
| Direction | Left to Right |
| Region | Kalinga |
| Languages | Odia language |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | |
Sister systems | Siddham, Sharada, Tibetan, Bhaiksuki |
| Brahmic scripts |
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| The Brahmi script and its descendants |
The Kalinga script or Southern Nagari is a Brahmic script used in the region of what is now modern-day Odisha, India and was primarily used to write Odia language in the inscriptions of the kingdom of Kalinga which was under the reign of early Eastern Ganga dynasty. By the 12th century, with the defeat of the Somavamshi dynasty by the Eastern Ganga monarch Anantavarman Chodaganga and the subsequent reunification of the Trikalinga(the three regions of ancient Odra- Kalinga, Utkala and Dakshina Koshala) region, the Kalinga script got replaced by the Siddhaṃ script-derived Proto-Oriya script which became the ancestor of the modern Odia script.