The Tibetan Alphabet was adapted from the Lañc̀ʽa ( ལཱཉ་ ) form of the Indian letters by Tʽon-mi-sam-bho-ta ( ཐོན་ ) minister of king Sroṅ-tsan-gam-po ( སྲོང་ ) about the year 632 (s. Köpp. II, 56). The Indian letters out of which the single Tibetan characters were formed are given in the following table in their Nāgari shape.