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Kashmir’s Sharda Script
August 7 , 2025
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- The first-ever exhibition dedicated to the Sharda script was held at the Chinar Book Festival in Srinagar.
- Sharda developed between the 8th and 9th centuries AD and was mainly used by Kashmiri Pandits.
- Few manuscripts survive, with many texts found between 1875 and 1925 on paper and birch-bark.
- Archaeological discoveries include 21 lines of Sharda inscriptions on hero-stones in Lolab Valley, Kupwara and finds in Baramulla district.
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