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Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 19:53:43 +0800
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Dear Friends,

Sorry. This letter left in a hurry.
The completed version is below.

Regards

Jayabarathi

At 03:15 PM 3/9/99 +0800, you wrote:
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> The Nandi Nagari is a variety of Nagari script.
> About 1500 years ago, Nagari script was evolving from
> Brahmi script. In different parts of India, there were several
varients developing . Some of them proceeded and developed into
> some of the modern scripts of North India like Bengali, Gurmukhi,
> DevaNagari, etc. Others stopped short and remained in their
> old forms.
> In some parts of South India, the people used a form
of Nagari to write Sanskrit. The variety used in Mysore area
was the Nandi Nagari. But in TamilNadu and Kerala, the people
developed the Tamil Grantham script in order to write Sanskrit.
The Nandi Nagari is said to have been used by the
Madhva Sect to write their religious texts.

Regards

Jayabarathi
>
>At 10:39 AM 3/8/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>Dear Dr. Jayabarathi:
>>
>>Is this manuscript in Tamil characters or Devanagari script ?
>>>From your request aimed at Bangalore Agathiyars, I suspect
>>it is Telugu /Kannada libi.
>>
>>Is it possible to put out a xerox or photostat copy of at least
>>one page (leave) of the manuscript in the net ? I can ask the
>>local Kannada/Telugu speaking friends here.
>
>Dear Dr. Jayabarathi:
>
>I just read the letter from Jennifer attached at the end of
>your posting, suggesting that the
>script may Nanthinagari. Nanthi nagari...beats me...
>looks like Basavanna samachara..need kannadiga's to decipher.
>>
>>N. Swaminathan
>>Los Angeles
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