Re: Theory of transliteration?

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Anton Sherwood <bronto@...> wrote:

> You say Sanskrit "can" be written in any local script. But was it?

> If
> a Tamil wrote a letter to a Bengali, say, in Sanskrit, did he expect

the

> Bengali to read the Tamil script, or were some scripts preferred for
> such uses?

Tamils used the Grantha script for Sanskrit. Whether it's really more
distinct from the Tamil script than different Latin hands were from
one another, I don't know. Indic scripts do seem prone to endemicism.

Richard.