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Category Archives: Indian Languages

200 Years of Devanagari Types

It is strange that 200 years after the first Nagari typefaces where cast in iron in India, we’ve got no fine Devanagari fonts at our disposal. Ok, we have quite a few Hindi fonts. But, hey, there are many differences. No Devanagari fonts at the moment supports the four variants of “la” or the northern […]

Panchatantra

॥ कथा १ ॥
 
 
                एकोदराः पृथग्ग्रीवा अन्यान्यफलभक्षिणः ।
3                      असंहता विनश्यन्ति भारुण्डा इव पक्षिणः ॥
इह हि कस्मिंश्चित् सरसि भारुण्डा नाम पक्षिणः प्रतिवस­न्ति स्म। तेषाम् उदरम् एकं ग्रीवे च द्वे पृथक् पृथग् भवतः ।
6   अथ तेषां मध्यात् कस्यापि पक्षिणः स्वेच्छया विचरत एकया ग्रीवया क्वाप्य् अमृतं प्राप्तम् । अथ द्वितीययाभिहितम् । ममा­प्य् अर्धं देहि । अथ […]

Sanskrit Syntax

Delbrück 1888        Delbrück, B.: Altindische Syntax. [Syntaktische For­schun­gen.5.] Halle.
Gren-Eklund            1978  Gren-Eklund, Gunilla: A study of Nominal Sen­ten­ces in the Ol­dest Upaniṣads. [Ac­ta Universi­ta­tis Upsaliensis.3.] Upp­sa­la.
Hartman 1966         Hartman, C.G.: Emphasizing and connecting par­ticles in the thir­teen principal Upa­nishads. [Suomalaisen tiedeakatemian toi­mituksia. Sarja B,143,2.] Helsinki.

Hymn of Creation

In the following cosmogonic poem [x. 129] the origin of the world is explained as the evolution of the existent (sát) from the non-existent (ásat). Water thus came into being first; from it was evolved intelligence by heat. It is the starting-point of the natural philosophy which developed into the Sāṅkhya system.

Historical note on devanāgarī type

In 1786 Dr. Charles Wilkins was obliged by ill-health to return to England. He made the first direct rendering into English of a Sanskrit text: this was the 3rd century ad Vaishnava creed, the “Bhagavad-Gita”, London, 1785, and the Company paid for publication. He followed it with a translation of the “Hitopadesa”, Bath, […]

Chief Peculiarities of Vedic Grammar

1.    As several stages can be distinguished in the development of the Vedic language, some of the following statements are strictly applicable only to the Rig-veda, the oldest and most important monument of Vedic literature.

The Alphabet.
2.    The sounds are the same as in Sanskrit, with the exception of two additional letters. Cerebral […]