Hello everyone,
I have a confession to make, and that is, my interest in Pali was
not just fueled by wanting to learn the teachings of the Buddha in
their original language but also by the excitement of learning
another northern Indian language. And then there was this added
excitement of learning, what I thought was, the Pali script.

You cant imagine how disapointed I was when I learnt that Pali had no
script of its own. So I quietly swallowed my disapointment and
started reading all those "ugly" romanised unicodes.

Up to now, that is. I just cant stand them anymore. I am an Indian,
pure blood. And I even know my own script, Gurmukhi, very well. The
Gurmukhi Script is used to write the Punjabi language as well as more
than twenty other northern Indian languages and dialects (including
Sanskrit) found in the scriptures of the Sikh religion known as the
Siri Guru Granth Sahib. [Gurmukhi script:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/gurmuki.htm ]

And Pali is an Indian language. Why cant I learn this language
through an Indian route without the use of those downright un-Indian
unicodes. Well, at least untill I have exhausted all Indian-means.

I have discovered from msg #25
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/message/25 that one of our more
learned members of this forum ie. Thiele Everett is also a student of
Sanskrit.

Therefore, I would much appreciate some advise from you on this
matter. Today, out of sheer frustration, I downloaded Devanagari
fonts and found myself a site with free audio and video files for
learning the Hindi alphabet. Both sites are from the University of
Pennsylvania and the service is for free.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/hindi/alphabet/
http://philae.sas.upenn.edu/Hindi/hindi.html

Actually, I was searching for sites to learn Devanagari for Pali, but
was not succesful (maybe, not succesful as yet). So I have settled
for these.

Could you advise me more on this area.

Thanks

Sukhdev Singh

ps. I dont have the luxury of attending Pali classes so I have to do
everything myself with only the Internet as my resource.