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Book's First Pagelong vowels. This raises the question whether early Brahmi too drew on Aramaic, either with Kharoshthi as a model or in a parallel development. Whatever might have been the manner in which the Brahmi script began, early in Ashoka’s reign or a little earlier, the art of writing seemed to have spread rapidly. The kind of interest Ashoka took in getting his edicts inscribed in places all over his Empire means that he expected that there would be some persons everywhere who could be able to read them aloud to others. He also distributed copies of his edicts written obviously on lighter materials. The Mahasthan slab inscription and Sohgaura copper plate inscription show how official business was now being conducted in writing. The Piprahwa soapstone vase inscription and the Bhattiprolu casket inscriptions also give evidence of how writing was being put into use even in the Buddhist Samgha. The Tamil Brahmi inscriptions too tell a similar story of its use among the Jain monks or those who made gifts to them. Such spread of the use of writing would inevitably have had the most far-reaching consequences for various institutions of society. In the bureaucratic setup it might have begun to replace professional memorisers with scribes, and by simplifying the keeping of records and accounts, immediately improved the effectiveness of administration. Writing enabled all religious sects, including the Brahmanical, to preserve and transmit the sacred texts, though the use of writing for this purpose took time. Secular compositions, in any case, came to have a much better chance of survival than in earlier days, when preservation was based on memory, without any claim to sanctity. It is very likely that commerce too would have greatly benefited from written accounts and messages. • Similarly, in India, no marked genetic differences are observable among speakers of the Munda (Austro-Asiatic), Dravidian and Indo- European languages, all being classed as Caucasoids. There cannot, therefore, be an Aryan (Indo-Iranian) race, and, even less, an Indo- European one. Early Historical Period