खरोष्ठी

Etymology
Sometimes written as, possibly a corrupted form of an older , which is itself derived from , the name of the region in Northwest India where the script was used to write some of the. Both the name of the script and of the region should be considered as a dvandva compound of, meaning “[the region of] donkeys and camels”.

A recorded in Chinese Buddhist literature attributes the name to a rishi whose name means "donkey-lips" or "having lips like the donkey's", 驢脣 (Salomon, 1998: 50-51). However, +  would have yielded  by vowel sandhi, rather than -o-.

Noun



 * 1)  Kharoshthi script