1) Script 2) Unicode block 
[Unicode block] Brahmi is a Unicode block containing characters written in India from the 3rd century BCE through the first millennium CE. It is the predecessor to all modern Indic scripts. ...
noun a script (probably adapted from the Aramaic about the 7th century BC) from which later Indian scripts developed
a script of India that was probably adapted from the Aramaic alphabet about the 7th century b.c., and from which most of the later Indian scripts developed.