What is the origin of the horizontal top bar in Indian language scripts such as Devanagari and Bengali?

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Question by David J: What is the origin of the horizontal top bar in Indian language scripts such as Devanagari and Bengali?

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Answer by GrahamH
The bar was already there in Sanskrit; many people think that it representes the line of the page and that the writing in thos languages was under the line.

Gurjerati has no “top bar” but other than that most of the letters closely resemble the Hindi (Devenagari) ones.

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