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08-03-2009, 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by komitsuki View Post
This actually looks like a very bastardized (or uber-stylized) Siddham script. Perhaps my Sanskrit studies paid me well off in this situation.

Siddhaṃ script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It's an Indic script used among Japan's esoteric Buddhist groups.
Might be, might be...
Also we don't even know if the original symbol is Japanese or not, so let's not stretch to fit the bill
That's pretty interesting though, I didn't know certain Buddhist groups in Japan still used scripts from the west!
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