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The Calcutta Review (Twenty-Ninth Number of New Series) January 1920

1920

Every indication that we have at present of the i n wardness of Indian nationality points to the future indebted ness of humanity to a culture capable of real contribu d01113 of the dfatnreafcree of the world ; but the exact direclitin"Indian Nationality of those contributions and the exact niche they will fill in the temple of humanity is for the future to decide. [...] When therefore the origin of the Indiaalphabel is the subject of discussion the origin of the BrAhmi.alcuth is understood.. [...] According to Biihler the testmony of the Pali Canon points to the common use of writing in India during the fifth or perhaps the sixth century B. C. The introduction of writing must therefore be placed in the seventh century B. C. Thus from the fourth century B. C. the European scholars have pushed it back to the seventh century and have thus made a concession of three centuries in favour of th [...] It is scarcely necessary to tell a student of the Vedic literature that the word akshara in the sense of " a letter or syllable" is to be found not only in the Brihaddranyaka or the Chhandogya Upanishad but also in the Aitareya-Brahmana not only in the Aitareya-Brahmana but also in the Atharvveda and not only in the Atharvaveda but also in the Rigveda. [...] The foremost of one class are Deecke and Isaac Taylor who hold that the Indian alphabet is derived from that of the Southern Semites in South Arabia and of the other are Weber and Battler who maintain that it is derived directly from that of the Northern Semites the earliest Ph(cnician alphabet known to us from the long epigraphic document of Mesita King of Moab the oldest Sinjirli inscriptio
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Pages
101
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Indian Nationality
1-20 R.N. Gilchrist view
The Indian Alphabet
21-39 D.R. Bhandarkar view
Islamic Regeneration
40-46 S. Bukhsh view
An Indian Pepys
47-59 J.N. Gupta view
The Aim of Education
60-60 L.T. Watkins view
The Indian Alphabet
61-66 D.R. Bhandarkar view
The Imperial Library Calcutta
67-80 K.N. Dhar view
The Spirit of Reform and Reconstruction
81-91 Thakorelal Desai view
Reviews of Books
92-96 unknown view
Acknowledgments
97-99 unknown view
Miscellaneous
100-100 unknown view

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