Kaithi, Caste & Politics (One language, Two scripts - a book review)

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INDOLOGY, "naga_ganesan <naga_ganesan@h...>"

<naga_ganesan@h...> wrote:

 

> >a more limited number of scripts?

>

> Surely, that is one of the reasons. Many Sanskrit texts

> were found in the South in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam Grantha scripts.

 

Can you give an extent of the Sanskrit texts in Tamil, Telugu,

Malayalam and Grantha scripts? In terms of the percentage of the

known texts found till say the end of 18th Century? Was Devnagari

never used at all and only the local scripts were preferred?

 

> The North was missing those, and the Hindus esp. from the North

> wanted to have one scrript so that a transfer of these Sanskrit

> texts into Nagari script was effecetd.

 

 

Does it mean that the rest of India outside the South was using

Nagari and that the purpose of the nagari script for sanskrit was

to transfer sanskrit in the south for all-India readership?