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Pallava script
The Pallava script is a Brahmic script that developed in southern India under the Pallava dynasty from around the 4th century CE. Carried across the Bay of Bengal by traders and priests, it was used for the earliest inscriptions of Southeast Asia, such as the yupa posts of Kutai in Borneo and the stones of Tarumanagara in Java. It became the ancestor of scripts such as Khmer and Kawi.
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