Siddhaṃ script

Script of the Brahmic familySiddhaṃ (Sanskrit pronunciation:) (also known as Kutila) is an Indic script used in India from the 6th century to the 13th century. Also known in its later evolved form as Siddhamātṛkā, Siddham is a medieval Brahmicabugida, derived from the Gupta script and ancestral to the Nāgarī, Eastern Nagari, Tirhuta, Odia and Nepalese scripts. The Siddham script was widely used by Indian Buddhists and still remains in use by East Asian Buddhists, especially for writing mantras, seed syllables, and dharanis. NameThe word Siddhaṃ means "accomplished", "completed" or "perfected" in Sanskrit. The script received its name from the practice of writing Siddhaṃ, or Siddhaṃ astu ('may there be perfection'), at the head of documents. The name Siddhamātṛkā is reported by the 11th-century scholar Al-Biruni, which seems to be corroborated by the term "Siddhaṃ," which is the term used for the script by Buddhist tradition in East Asia. This makes the Siddhaṃ script one of the few Indian scripts whose traditional name is known from historical sources. In Chinese, the name is rendered as xitan wenzi (simplified Chinese: 悉昙文字; traditional Chinese: 悉�