Guest guest Posted September 1, 2009 Report Share Posted September 1, 2009 Dear Henny is the Devanagari the transliterated script of the sanskrit? (And after that the English...) Is there any way to learn more about Devanagari? I would like to learn enough about it to understand what I'm reading without having to then also read the English. Thank you as always ~ Linda Jai Ma Jai Swamiji Henny wrote: my thoughts are that your are doing us all a great service. It is only now that I understand 'shutulya' is not a word, and that I should take a look at the Devanagari if I cannot find something in the dictionary. Apparently, sometimes words that are one in Devanagari are separated in the transliteration at a seemingly illogical place (illogical to me, that is)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 As always, Henny, my deep thanks. I will take your advice and look it up in Wikipedia. I think my problem is that I'm looking for an easy way, which, of course, there isn't, because, as you indicate, Sanskrit and Devanagari are both very complex...complex and beautiful. Jai Maa Jai Swamij ~ Linda Henny wrote: the Devanagari is the beautiful script which we cannot read:)))I have tried, and am still trying to learn the letters and the combinations of letters in which Sanskrit is written. If you know the letters, or if you look them up in a list, you can decipher the words via the transliteration (the way it is said is the same as the way it is written, no funny business like 'you write x but you pronounce y').So then you can see where in the Devanagari words begin and end, and compare this with the transliteration. Sometimes in the transliteration this is a little different, so I tried to find a word in the dictionary under the first letter of the word, which turns out to be not a separate word at all. It is very difficult to find out where Sanskrit words begin and end because they tend to write many words together, and letters change due to the combinations of words and conjugations. So it is a puzzle, and I fail to find a word many times. That's why I am so happy with Srini's contribution!If you wish to find out more: there is an article 'Devanagari' in Wikipedia (I found it via Google), where you can learn about the history and there you can also see the letters (with their pronunciation). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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