The 7th century Tibetan king
Songtsen Gampo ordered that all foreign books be transcribed into the Tibetan language, and sent his ambassador Tonmi Sambota to India to acquire alphabetic and writing methods, who returned with a Sanskrit Nāgarī script from Kashmir corresponding to twenty-four (24) Tibetan sounds and innovating new symbols for six (6) local sounds. The museum in Mrauk-u (
Mrohaung) in the
Rakhine state of
Myanmar held in 1972 two examples of Nāgarī script. Archaeologist
Aung Thaw describes these inscriptions, associated with the
Chandra, or Candra, dynasty that first hailed from the ancient Indian city of
Vesáli: {{blockquote|... epigraphs in mixed Sanskrit and Pali in North-eastern Nāgarī script of the 6th century dedicated by [Queen] Niti Candra and [King] Vira Candra File:Copper plates NMND-1.JPG|Coppern plates in Nāgarī script, 1035 CE File:Nagari Script 01.jpg|Nagari Script 01 File:Nagari Script 02.jpg|Nagari Script 02 ==See also==