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 You still haven't got it, Prabir.
 
 A script cannot emerge from nowhere. It needs a spoken language. And, our oldest language is Sanskrit.  Devanagari is a script of Northern part of India, while the south had its own Sanskrit lipi called grantha. It is still in vogue for Vedic and Agamic learning
 see <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grantha_script >
 
 My point was, if a script itself is as old as 300o bc, then how old will be the labguage ? Sanskrit is a special case. It had an oral tradition of thousands of years before written down.
 
 Please , do not be guided by the western indologists .
 
 Venkat
 
 --- In Jharkhand@yahoogroups.co.in, prabir chatterjee <prabirkc@...> wrote:
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 > Devanagri is a script- don't confuse people, please. Kharoshti is an older script.
 
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