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Introduction to the Shikshapatri

The Shikshapatri a text of two hundred and twelve verses, written in Sanskrit by Bhagwan Swaminarayan. The Shikshapatri is a key scripture to all followers of the Swaminarayan faith and is considered the basis of the faith. The Shikshapatri was written in Vadtal on February 11, 1826. It is a dharma text, providing detailed instructions on how to live.

The Original Shikshapatri manuscript is available in two languages, Sanskrit and Gujarati. Gujarati would normally be written using a different alphabet from Sanskrit but in this manuscript the Gujarati is written in Devanagari, the same alphabet that is used for the Sanskrit. It is therefore much harder to distinguish the Gujarati from the Sanskrit text. The other important thing here is the Devanagari which is the name given to an Indian alphabet system. The Nagari (literally ''of the city'') or Devanagari (''divine Nagari'') alphabet was developed from an earlier script called Brahmi sometime around the 11th century AD. It was originally developed to write Sanskrit but was later adapted to write many other languages including Hindi.

The other language of the Shikshapatri manuscript is Sanskrit which is an ancient Indian language that is used for religious and philosophical texts.

It reads from left to right. Sanskrit traces back at least as far as 1000 BC and is a member of the Indo-European family of languages to which most of the languages of Europe also belong. Indian manuscripts are written continuously with no spaces between the words. Giving some history about Sanskrit, in the early centuries AD, Sanskrit had become a language to be consciously learnt rather than the language in use for every day speech.

It performed a similar function to that of Latin in Medieval Europe, uniting the various regions of India (whose dialects were not necessarily mutually comprehensible) with a common language. The Sanskrit language was used for religious texts, administration and all forms of learned communication. In the 19th century, when the Shikshapatri was written, Sanskrit was still being used as a language for religious texts.More Than Just A Hotlist Supplementary Information

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