IndiaDivine Home



Powered by IndiaDivine Communications
|   IndiaDivine Home   |   Forum Home   |    Video Directory   |    Members List   |    Search   |    Today's Posts   |    Mark Forums Read   |   
IndiaDivine Menu
Picture Gallery
Email Newsletter

Online Donations
Videos and DVDs
Ayurvedic Medicines
(#1 (Link))
Old
Visitor
 
Posts: 1
Join Date: Mar 2004
Default Siddham writing - 03-02-2004, 12:16 AM

Does anyone know of a good, comprehensive site where I can find out more on Siddham? I found out some from the website Omniglot (www.omniglot.com) but it was confusing me a lot. If anyone can help me, thanks to you.
Reply With Quote


(#2 (Link))
Old
Member
 
Posts: 190
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: The Netherlands.
Default Siddham script - 03-02-2004, 12:19 PM

The Siddham script is derived from an older form of the North India Devanagari script, like the Tibetan script.
Many Asian scripts are derived from Indian scripts, like Javanese, Khmer, Burmese, Thai etc.

From encyclpedia4you:
The writing of mantras, and copying of Sutras using the Siddham script is still practiced in Shingon Buddhism, in Japan but has died out in other places. It was Kukai that introduced the Siddham script to Japan when he returned from studying Sanskrit, and vajrayana Buddhism in China, in 806.
Reply With Quote


Reply

Bookmarks


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:


Similar Threads
Thread Forum Replies Last Post
writing Sanskrit 0 01-12-2006 07:15 PM
writing Sanskrit 3 06-07-2005 09:44 AM
Sanskrit & Siddham translation Sanskrit 0 03-20-2004 03:21 AM
meaning of this sanskrit siddham Sanskrit 4 09-21-2003 02:54 AM
golly, will I EVER stop writing haiku? (hope not) unless it's automatic writing inspired by SATAN... Advaita Vedanta 0 06-15-2001 08:18 PM


Account Information



Ayurvedic Medicines
Search IndiaDivine
Ask a Question
Do you have a spiritual question? Please write.

Translate this Page


Video Library
Audio CDs
Multimedia CDs
Malas
(Prayer Beads)
Videos and DVDs
Ayurvedic Medicine
Natural Incense
Advertise | Contact Us | About this Site | Privacy Policy | Bhaktivedanta Ashram | Puja Sponsorships | Charity in India |





Hindi Arabic Bulgarian Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish

IndiaDivine has had 71,261,817 page views since creation.