Dear R.O.Jadhao,

We indeed share preferences on how to learn Pali, dont we. Well I am
glad to hear about the LaTeX text formater but know nothing about
it. Would sure appreciate some help in learning how to use it.
How do I get started?

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "R.O.Jadhao" <jadhao@...> wrote:
>
> 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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