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OLDEST SABA'AN NAM?TEMA SIND.(IRU MOABITE PHOENICIAN BRAHMI IJIAROSTHI /ETHIOPIC (H,myarino (ARABIC) 5008C	8008.0	Stone	(CYPRUS)
most important of these documents is the liturgical inscription of Hadji-abad, where the Arsacid and Sassanian alphabets are found side by side. Taylor (The Alphabet, ii. p. 248 f.) regards the former as probably derived from the " ancient alphabet of Eastern Iran, a sister alphabet of the Aramaean of the satrapies," while the Sassanian belongs to a later stage of Aramaic.
The alphabets of India all spring from two sources: (a) the Kharosthi, (b) the Brahmi alphabet. The history Of the former is lod)a,	fairly clear. It was always a local alphabet, and never
attained the importance of its rival. According to Buhler,' its range lay between 69° and 73° 30' E. and 33° to 35° N.,
Buhler, Indian Studies, iii. (2nd ed., 1898), p. 93. The account
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