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From Devanagari to Mohenjo-daro: Scripts Bridging Bharat’s Millennia-old Heritage

Explore the fascinating journey of Bharat’s ancient scripts — from the spiritual elegance of Devanagari, to the lesser-known Sindhi (Khudabadi) script, and further back into the cryptic Indus Valley inscriptions of Mohenjo-daro.

This video dives into:
The evolution and spread of writing systems across Bharat
The legacy of Hindi Diwas and how Devanagari became India's official script
The enduring cultural relevance of Sindhi amidst centuries of invasions
The mysteries of the undeciphered Indus Script
How these scripts form a bridge across time, preserving the unbroken cultural thread of Sanatan Dharma



// we have Yajnadevam's ( Bharath Rao) paper on decoding Indus script, which is sanskrit. PGurus takes a journey on other scripts including brahmi, sindhi lipi (closely related to Santali) and devanagari. Devanagari has 48 primary characters (14 vowels and 34 consonants). Inscriptions are available 1-4 centuries CE in Gujarat, 11th century in Udayagiri MP. By 1000 CE manuscripts in devanagari appeared. 120 languages including Sanskrit, Marathi, Nepali, Konkani, Maithili, Bodo, Dogri, etc. The sindhi lipi is more closer to harappan symbols. Devanagari is an abugida script, ensures accurate representation of spoken sounds.

Kharosthi - right to left. Indus is also right to left. Sanskrit has शब्दमञ्जरी Sabda Manjari or declensions (case in english). Sanskrit has singular, dual and plural. Latin also has dual. Prakrit was used prior to Sanskrit. During the Ashoka phase brahmi was used extensively. From Brahmi devanagari evolved.