Siddham is a

Unicode block A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...

containing characters for the historical,

Brahmi Brahmi ( ; ; ISO: ''Brāhmī'') is a writing system from ancient India. "Until the late nineteenth century, the script of the Aśokan (non-Kharosthi) inscriptions and its immediate derivatives was referred to by various names such as 'lath' or ...

-derived Siddham script used for writing Sanskrit between the years c. 550 – c. 1200.

Block

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Siddham block:

References

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