--- Geoff Morrison <sanskrit_studies@...> skrev:

> Rudrakasha Sakrikar:
>
> Pâli, unlike Sanskrit, is written in different South
> and Southeast Asian scripts, such as the Sinhala
> script in Sri Lanka and the Thai script in Thailand,
> among other regional scripts. Sanskrit is more
> traditionally associated with the Devanâgarî script,
> although the Devanâgarî script is also used to write
> some modern Indian languages, such as Hindî, Marathi
> and Nepali, among others.

According to Coulson's "Teach Yourself Sanskrit" (a
very good primer, by the way), Devanagari became the
standard script for Sanskrit as late as the 18th
century A. D., thus less than 300 years ago. Before
that, Sanskrit was, just as Pali still is, written in
the local script, whichever that happened to be; so
even Sanskrit doesn't have an original script.

Gunnar


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