There lived in a certain village an old man named Chandrasekhar. (Text taken from Bidhu Bhusan Das Gupta and Bimbadhar Das: Oriya Self-Taught, Calcutta 1967) The Indic fonts used here and in the following tables are taken from INDOLIPI. Grierson, Linguistic Survey of India, 1903) At first glance, an Oṛiyā book seems to be all curves, and it takes a second look to notice that there is something inside each.' ( G.A. ' Oṛiyā is encumbered with the drawback of an excessively awkward and cumbrous written character. Also, when certain consonants occur together, special conjunct symbols are used which combine the essential parts of each consonant symbol. When the diacritics appear at the beginning of a syllable, vowels are written as independent letters. Diacritics, which can appear above, below, before or after the consonant they belong to, are used to change the form of the inherent vowel. Oriya is a syllabic alphabet or an abugida wherein all consonants have an inherent vowel embedded within. The curved appearance of the Oriya script is a result of the practice of writing on palm leaves, which have a tendency to tear the leaves by many straight lines. There are noticeable similarity found between Oriya and Thai scripts which gives idea about the Sadhavas, earlier traders of Kalinga who travelled to south Asian countries and ruled over there which leaves mark of Oriya script on the Thai script along with the cultural impact. Oldenburg mentioned that Pali was the original language of Orissa. This may be the reason why the famous German linguist Prof. Hati Gumpha inscriptions, which is in Pali, is perhaps the only evidence of stone inscriptions in Pali. A point has also been made as to whether Pali was the prevalent language in Orissa during this period. From the point of view of language, the inscriptions of Hati Gumpha are near modern Oriya and essentially different from the language of the Ashokan edicts. The script in the Ashokan edicts at Dhauli and Jaugada and the inscriptions of Kharavela in Hati Gumpha of Khandagiri give the first glimpse of possible origin of Oriya language. Sample of the Oriya script as written from a Buddhist text from around 1060 AD, written by Sarahapada

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