Description

European scholars re-discovered the golden literary texts (Vedas, Puranas
etc.) of ancient India from the Indian pundits. As those texts had mainly
religious and ritualistic use which was the domain of a particular class,
common and ordinary people had but little or no idea about them.Various languages and scripts through the ages had developed in India which had only phonetic similarities with the so-called Sanskrit / Vedic texts.Since no uniform script could be found for Sanskrit, Devnagari was accepted as a standard.
It is presumed that scripts like Devnagari, Bengali, Marathi eto. were shaped from Brahmi, the origin of which is unknown. But we know that, Vedic texts were composed long before Brahmi era. Therefore, two different styles
developed in Indian epigraphy (one for religious and literary purposes and
the other, for the need of the common). The 1st system was lost with time,
but the 2nd method survived through evolution.Harappan people inscribed their texts for their daily needs. On the other
hand, Vedic pundits used to write on meterials like ‘Bhurjapatra’ and / or
clothes which have already perished. This book is to read Indus scripts and
to establish the journey of Indian epigraphy from the Harappan age down
to the present Indian scripts through Brahmi.