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To: An_Indian

Saw somewhere that Sanskrit can be written in a variety of scripts although it is most often seen in print in devanagari. Is that correct? There are also some Roman letter variations.


9 posted on 10/31/2006 8:52:29 AM PST by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: RightWhale

Devnagri or its predecessors Brahmi script are the only known scripts in which Sanskrit was written. And Sanskrit existed at a time when Europe didn't even have a written script.


11 posted on 10/31/2006 3:12:20 PM PST by Gengis Khan
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To: RightWhale

Might be true that Sanskrit has other scripts too but Devanagari is the most popular and still in use script for this and several other Indian languages.

When I learnt a little bit of Sanskrit in my 11th and 12th grades, we used Devanagari script. Sanskrit was pretty difficult to learn it for me despite being fluent in Hindi. But speaking it gives you some kind of amazing feeling that I cant explain or maybe its just me because I am Hindu that I felt it that way. I forgot all of it now. :(


13 posted on 10/31/2006 3:25:29 PM PST by An_Indian
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