[Buddha-l] Brahmi Script

[JKirkpatrick]

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On Tuesday 26 October 2010 11:19:34 JKirkpatrick wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> I guess you didn't see my shorty reply that said after reading
Dan's 
> remarks I realised that the 'Buddha & Brahmi script' was a pipe
dream.
> What led me down that speculative primrose path was Batchelor 
> suggesting that Gotama had been educated, even at the
university in 
> Gandhara. It seemed to me rather incredible, but I've not seen
any 
> scholarly comment on Batchelor's assertion. Did you read that
bit in 
> his latest book? Or, anyone?
>
> More cheers,
> Joanna
> ------------------

If I recall, the alleged university was not in Gandhara, but
somewhere around the Indus, and did seem to be speculation on
Batchelor's part.  But then, I also read Pyrrhonism  this past
summer, so I could have gotten used to it. 
--

James Andy Stroble
University of Hawai'i, Leeward Community College
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It was the famous institution at Takshashila, or Taxila. Wasn't
that in the Gandhara area?

Joanna