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The clerk's hand of north India.
Also known as: Kayathi, Kayasthi
The script used across north India for administrative and legal record-keeping before Devanagari displaced it.
Wrote administrative, legal and commercial records across north India.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Dropped the headstroke that Devanagari joins its words with, which made it far faster to write and is why the clerks used it — the script's defining feature is an omission made for speed.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Brahmic letters written without a continuous headstroke, in a rapid cursive hand well suited to a reed pen.