hi marco; i don't think brahmi (or its sister script kharosti), appearing
in numerous stone inscriptions by order of the emperor ashoka, had a
viraama, but like the modern indic scripts descended from it, it did have
some conjunct symbols for writing consonant clusters. see table 30.8 on pl.
376 of richard g. salomon, "brahmi and kharosthi", in *the world's writing
systems*, ed. by peter d. daniels and william bright, pp. 373-83 (new york:
oxford u. press, 1996).
cheers; bill
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