Learning Shāradā Lipi

  When Hieun Tsang visited India in the 7th Century AD, he depicted India as a well-organized culture with the immense richness of knowledge. He noted that Sanskrit is spoken fluently even by women and children of Kashmir like their native language. People used only Shāradā as the main script to write Sanskrit. Kashmir, the Land of Shāradā, considered Sarvajna Peetha (the seat of all knowledge), has always been the land of Rishis and great scholars in various fields of knowledge. Shāradā Lipi  is a writing system based on the Brahmic family of scripts and has flourished in the northern part of India, spread even in Himachal Pradesh and Punjab. Shāradā texts have been widely found in Afghanistan. The oldest text of this script is dated 3rd Century AD. Benefits of learning the Shāradā script Thousands of manuscripts are written in Shāradā Lipi, available in many libraries within and outside India; most are still unexplored. The sages and scholars used it for communication...