High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Siddha? (Sanskrit ??????, "accomplished" or "perfected"; ????????; Chinese: ????; pinyin: Xitan wenzi; Japanese: ??, bonji; Middle Chinese (Baxter-Sagart): sit-dom mjun-dziH), also known in its later evolved form as Siddhamat?ka, is the name of a North Indian script used for writing Sanskrit during the period ca 600-1200 CE. It is descended from the Brahmi script via the Gupta script, which also gave rise to the Devanagari script as well as a number of other Asian scripts such as Tibetan script. There is some confusion over the spelling: Siddha? and Siddha? are both common, though Siddha? is correct. The script is a refinement of the script used during the Indian Gupta Empire. The name arose from the practice of writing the word Siddha?, or Siddha? astu (may there be perfection) at the head of documents. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом...