Hinduism: What Really Happenned in India (PDF) - Oration

Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan
intentionally created by refinement to remain without even a script or
documentation for centuries after a perfected grammar was in existence.
All the time we are asked to believe that a vast amount of literature was
transmitted by word of mouth without error through centuries!!!
By the time of Panini, writings were in the vogue and it is legitimate to
assume that the vedas were written down. Enquiry into “What script was
used to write these vedas down?” will take us to the history of writing.
The Story of Writing
There are essentially six forms of writing developed in history
1. Ideograph - here a symbol represent an idea, a pictograph. Hieroglyphic
writing is a system that employs characters in the form of pictures. These
individual signs, called hieroglyphs, may be read either as pictures, as symbols
for pictures, or as symbols for sounds. These are found in early Egyptian
hieroglyphics, Mayan hieroglyphics, etc. The system is useful as a mnemonic
device for recalling memorized texts.
2. Logograph - a symbol representing a specific word, as in modern and
classical Chinese writing.
3. Phonetic writing - each symbol represents a sound.,
4. Consonant inventory - a set of symbols that represent only the consonant
sounds of a language. The Classical Arabic and Hebrew writing systems are of
this type. Thus, the word Yehovah would be spelled as YHVH. Later these were
enhanced with diacritic vowel marks.
5. Syllabary - a collection of symbols representing specific syllables.
6. Alphabet - a set of symbols representing specific consonants and vowels.
This system was developed by the Phoenicians around 1000 BCE All modern
alphabets are derived from this. The advantage of the alphabet system is that
the text can be written in the way they are to be read. It is this discovery that led
to the immense literature of most modern languages.
Whatever the mode of writing, the art of writing has changed the world.
The transient thoughts concepts and ideas of man could now be
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