Specimens of ancient Assamese scripts have been found in the Arakan/Rakhine State of Myanmar, which establishes the fact that the Assamese script used to have its sway spread over a vast area of South and South East Asia in a historical period. The period has been assigned by the scholars to thousands of years before the birth of Christ.
City-based surgeon Dr Satyakam Phukan, a keen researcher in the historically dispersed Assamese people, Assamese language and script, said, “From the point of view of the quality of the preserved inscriptions in their respective temporal situations, the inscriptions written in Assamese script found in Arakan/Rakhine State of Myanmar are indeed some of the best specimens of inscriptions in ancient Assamese script.”
Dr Phukan, after studying the photographs of the inscriptions written in Assamese scripts in the Arakan State and consulting the Arakanese and European scholars’ works on these inscriptions, maintained that these inscriptions belong to two ancient civilisations that sprang up in the area of the Arakan State and centred around two sites – Dhanyabady and Wethali (pronounced as Wedali or Waidali in Arakanese and Burmese languages). (Courtesy of assamtribune.com)
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