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Sanskrit as Link Language and Devanagiri as Common Script continues...
Also nearer home in south and south-east Asia, Bhasha Indonesia, Bhasha Malaysia, Thai, Khmer Rouge and Sinhalese are close to Sanskrit in many ways and have a large common vocabulary. The close links between the languages of Central Asia like that of Uzbekistan and Sanskrit are well known. Recent excavations in Uzbekistan have brought to light old Sanskrit inscriptions and manuscripts dating back to the beginning of the Christian era. If we want a renaissance of values and a revival of tested cultural values in our land, we should return to Sanskrit.
Not only is Sanskrit the most efficient language of the 21st Century, but its script, Devanagiri, is also the most scientific in reproducing exact sounds. Write any sentence in English; then re-write the Hindi or Sanskrit translation in Devanagiri script, and you will find that in general the latter will take up about 25 per cent less space. It is, therefore surprising to listen to the persistent demand to write Hindi in Roman (i.e., English) script. On the contrary there should be an international campaign, (even if it may take a century to fructify) to make Devanagiri the international script as well. And why not? After all, numerals and decimals were accepted from Hindustan by the whole world. As British scholar Sir William Jones observed: βOur English alphabets and orthography are disgracefully, almost ridiculously, imperfect (compared to Devanagiri).
Anti-Hindi zealots confuse Devanagiri with Hindi. The truth is that Hindi is just one of the languages using this script. Sanskrit, Marathi, Sindhi, Nepali, and some of the hill tract languages also use Devanagiri. This script thus can be used by any language. In fact, the scripts of all Indian languages including Tamil and Devanagiri are βsistersβ and direct descendants of the original Brahmi script. Any competent linguist would tell you that [see I. Mahadevan: Corpus of the Tamil-Brahmi script]. However, fanaticism blinds logic. The Punjabi (non-Sikh) Hindu under the leadership of Lala Jagat Narain had two decades ago launched a bitter campaign against the Gurumukhi script.
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