Dear Sukhdev,
Since I also find reading pali in roman script somewhat weird, I am
transliterating the posts in this group (peng, rett and John Kelly's series)
to devanagari script by using the devnag prepocessor which comes with
devnagari package of latex and the converting the file to pdf or dvi format
and read them. The scheme used in the posts in this book require very little
effort to transliterate it to devanagari script( the script in which Hindi,
Marathi and Sanskrit is written).

I hope you are familiar with LaTeX text formatter.

R.O.Jadhao

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sukhdev Singh" <sukh2val@...>
To: <Pali@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 10:01 PM
Subject: [Pali] Learning Pali without unicodes - also, a question for Thiele
Everett .


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.








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