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Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan Lexicon tenses, has the special derivative conjugation as well. Sanskrit syntax is not the same in all cases and depends on the type of the text. Many words in the language are not Indo-European and were borrowed from aboriginal Dravidian and Munda languages. This makes it farther from Iranian and other Indo-European languages than was Vedic. Writing Brahmi Script Close Contacts Picture Dravidian, Munda; colloquial Middle Indic dialects called Prakrits. The Grantha writing system was developed in the 5th c. AD, was the proto-language of the modern Tamil, and was used to write Sanskrit. Inscriptions in Early Grantha, dating from the 5th to 6th c. AD on copper plates and stone monuments were found dating from the Period of the Pallavas near Chennai (Madras). Originally, Grantha was used for writing Sanskrit. Nagiri (the modern form of Sanskrit script) came into use only after the 7th c. AD. Nirad Chaudhuri points out that 'the Hindu religious texts with the exception of the Vedas and their ancillary treatises, are all in classical Sanskrit. He says that in their present form none would be earlier than the fourth century A.D'. Though it is often argued that, these epic and philosophical works were in existence long before they were written down and were handed down through generations by oral transmission, it 75
Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan is quite unlikely because at some point the translation occurred from Vedic to Sanskrit. Hence, its original form or content cannot be guaranteed. It is quite likely that the form and content changed during this period as it does even today (in spite of the writing). At any rate, this is just a conjecture and cannot be validated by any documentary or concrete evidence. 'The Gita is written in good classical Sanskrit, and epigraphic evidence clearly shows that the Gita could not have been written before the second century A.D.’ It is probably of much later period. It could most probably of the 7 th century. 'The earliest epigraphic evidence on languages employed in India comes from the inscriptions of Asoka inscribed in third century B.C. Asoka took care that his messages were intelligible to all and he used a particular kind of Prakrit. He even translated his messages to Greek and Aramaic. But, there are no inscriptions in Sanskrit. The first evidence of Sanskrit ever is seen around A.D.150. From the fifth century A.D., Classical Sanskrit is seen to be the dominant language in these inscriptions.' Vedas were originally written using the Grantha and Nagiri Scripts. Since the earliest evidence of Grantha Scripts are found only around 5 th c AD, the Vedas could not have been written in the form it is now anytime earlier. It may be argued that Vedas could have been in oral form. This is a conjecture. People certainly have been philosophical even without a written document. But they are not crystallized until they are written down. Writing in Vedic Period from internal evidence ? There is however another problem raised by the internal reference within the Vedas regarding writing. Were the Vedas written down during its formative period?. Some people do argue that there is indeed evidence of that in the Vedas. 76
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