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Sanskrit Alphabet's Scientific Arrangement

 

 

Sanskrit Alphabet's Scientific Arrangement

http://www.hindu.com/2004/08/20/stories/2004082002710300.htm

 

MYSORE, INDIA, August 19, 2004: Recalling sage Panini's 2,000-year-old

contribution to acoustics, the former Vice-Chancellor of Hyderabad

University, B.S. Ramakrishna, on Thursday said the sage's

well-researched arrangement of the alphabet of Devanagiri script was a

unique effort. Inaugurating a national workshop on "Acoustic analysis

of speech" here, Prof. Ramakrishna said the scientific arrangement of

alphabets of Devanagiri script was in accordance with the pronunciation

of sounds. "This is not found in any other language in the world,"

Prof. Ramakrishna said. Prof. Ramakrishna described Panini as the first

researcher in the field of acoustics.