[1] The writing was found on a stone unearthed in Bareilly district in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (modern-day Uttar Pradesh).
[1] The inscription proclaims that it was created by an engraver from Kannauj who was "proficient in the Kutila character".
[1] It also includes the date of the inscription, Vikram Samvat 1049, which corresponds to 992 CE.
[1] The word Kutila (कुटिल) means crooked in the Sanskrit language, and it is assumed that the name came from the curving shapes of Kutila letters, distinct from the straighter lines of the Brahmi and Gupta scripts.
[2][3] The Unicode encoding for Siddham is to serve as a unifying block for all regional variants of the script, such as Siddhamātṛkā and Kuṭila.