On the Brahmi Glosses of the Uygur Sitatapatra Text
Author(s): Tibor Porcio
Source: Central Asiatic Journal , 2003, Vol. 47, No. 1 (2003), pp. 91-109 Published by: Harrassowitz Verlag
As Gabain (1964) established, the Brahm? script was conveyed to the Uygurs by the Tokharians who lived in the North-Western part of Tur- kestan. This is supported by the fact that the Uygurs adopted the new signs which had been introduced by the Tokharians and to which they added a few more for their own purposes. This event must have taken place in the eighth or ninth, but definitely not later than the tenth century A.D.