The Story of Indian Scripts - Part 1 | The cave inscriptions of Mamallapuram 

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I'm a Kannadiga, i never knew that there was a script called Bhattiprolu before Brahmi evolved into Kadamba script. Amazing knowledge, Thank you!

that's the best channel i found on these important subjects. no biased narrative only facts. Thats a great sign.

Your channel is doing a great job, most history based channels become too focused with the political side of these discussions - this is honest and focused on the learning side. Looking forward to more of your videos.

Goosebumps! Thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Nice to hear the ‘Zha’ sound so very well articulated by the narrators when saying ‘Tamizh’ Nandri 🙏 Dhanyawadaha 🙏

So true - Current Hindi has so many Urdu & Persian words - If Hindi goes back to its original form - The gap between South Indian languages & Hindi will reduce to a great extent.

Most of my Indian frens are from Kerala. My guru is from Andra Pradesh and speaks Telugu. I speak basic Hindi (enough to get basic necessities, some small talk). I love the intricate and festive look Southern scripts have. Telugu is so mesmerizing. It looks like fine filligree on paper. I wish I could read it. A thousand lifetimes would never be enough to take in all of Bharat's deep mysteries and wonders. 💖

Great production. Both the narrators are doing a wonderful job.

This is a fantastic video, in the earlier stages of my life I thought English is the oldest language, 😂😂😂 later when I worked with Japanese I was privileged learn little Jspanese language. At this point of time I started digging, then I came to know Sanskit was the oldest language in the world, after further research I came to know that Tamil and Kannada were the next 2nd and 3rd oldest languages in the world, then I learnt Tamil proudly, same thing I was telling people, they used to laugh at me, English is a world language. Due to ego issues like English is world language and status of English is high, it is lack of kowledge about our Bharatian culture and heritage, I found that Kannada was the first administrative language of thst time, even though Tamil was the first language of the world. Need some digging. Japanese letters are same like Kannada but they speak like Tamil and Bengaali... If some west people says our language is 2500 years old tell them our languages are more than 10000 years or 1lakh years old... proud to be a Bharathiyan...

This is by far the most sensible explanation of the origins and history of Indian languages that I have seen on youtube. Thank you for sharing!

I knew 'Bhattiprolu' as only a village in coastal Andhra Pradesh near Bapatla. That 'Bhattiprolu' was also a script that preceded current day Telugu and Kannada is a new learning.

Love from battibrolu andra pradesh. The place which telugu and kannada script found dated back 3 ce

Liked the unbiased presentation without mixing present day politics from either sides. Hungry for more such content..

Excellent work, this video as well as Part 2 and the earlier one on settlements in S. India. The story of how India was peopled and the evolution of it languages is fascinating, and you have presented it in a simple, clear and fact-based way. Keep up the great work!

Thank you for preserving those details and classifing our all identity!

I love Indian history. thank you so much for this video.

An excellent presentation. Clearly presented and carefully documented.

It is phantastic to watch such a professional and appealing production on Indian History

Storytrails is such a fascinating channel to follow! Devoid of jingoistic hyperbole, and based on documented research. This makes it objective and reliable. The narrators have standard, remarkably easy accents to follow. Now, this brings me to two points of phonetic intrigue. 1. I notice that “ZH” is pronounced in a unique manner, in Tamil. Similarly the letter “L” at the end of the word Tamil has its own unique pronunciation, seemingly an upward curling of the tongue? Would it be possible, please, to explain these 2 phonemes, possibly in a video for auditory benefit? Nothing like learning the appropriate pronunciation from 2 scholars in the field! I hang with bated breath on every one of your enlightening videos, possibly because of being from the South myself, and rather tired of the predominance of the North in representations of India, much to the detriment of our ancient, glorious South … pardon my own slide into momentary jingoistic pride 😉

Great job! It’s a beautiful and easy presentation of a potentially tough subject, and I’m sending this link to my grandkids because I’m sure they’ll love it

Thank you for sharing this information. Both of you doing a great job.

The great work Sir!Congrats!

Good job… well narrated, clear links, simple with not too much academic jargon. Good visuals too. Thank you.

Wonderful!! Great substance.🙏🙏

You guys are doing an amazing job. Requires a lot of efforts and research to come up with such videos. Wish uou all the best and keep the momentum going. Storytrail and people Praveen Mohan are positively impacting our Indian society. KUDOS to you!

Beautiful explanation

Wonderful video, keep up the good work 👏 very refreshing to watch and learn when it is well presented

Wow fabulous synthesis....

Excellent! In addition to the knowledge provided, the diction of the presenters was a joy.

Golden work. Hats off

Shockingly good.

At last someone explained to me that many Sanskrit words are there in kannada.I am a kannadiga and I used to always wonder why I could understand Mahabharatha serial in hindi where they used to speak in shudh Hindi without parsi words.I had observed earlier that Hindi also has many Turkish words.

Kerala itself is cheranadu ruled by Thamizh chera kings. Later period invasions more percentage of sanskriti words mixed with Thamizh and formed a new language Malayalam.

Absolutely fascinating video - loved it! And some rather interesting discussion below in the comments too :)

I was looking for this... Thanks... Also, plz at the end of the video, provide a graphical timeline of the things you discussed..because its the common problem that we tend to forget or confuse or totally ignore the time periods.. And a clear understanding of the various time periods helps a lot in establishing connections and creating a link that simplifies understanding the history.

Good..Very Good,, Beautiful presentation.. Keep doing.

Gave clarity .. Thanks

Great information, very easily presented. Now we know that things were very fluid those days, not as cut and dry as made out to be. People moved around, languages mingled, kingdoms changed. Lots of mixing happened that's what makes India such a rich and unique culture. Amazing.

Excellent video. This is the best place to learn unbiased history. The speed and clarity of narration is just awesome. Kudos to all the people who are involved in making this video. One correction required. Sanskrit usage did not decline after the Pallava period. The Thanjavur Marathas till around 19th century patronized 4 languages (Telugu, Tamil, Marathi and Sanskrit)

Thank you for these videos... Indian history is too incredible !

you guys are teaching , honestly ! not just FYI but teaching !

Nice new stylization. Channel will boom if we get content like this more.

Correction: Aspirated sounds were added to the Telugu script to be able to translate Sanskrit literature [mahabharatam]. Those sounds were not present from the beginning. Even today, aspirated sounds are not paid much attention while speaking by telugu people.

Wonderful video of tamil and its orgini and it's evolution thanks to storytrails.

I am hooked to this channel!

Many thanks for the efforts to surface the potential with keeladi excavations which has not been given enough weightage till date .. loved the video… do make more of these

Great work keep it up..

Great informative video

Loving it. Woaw

Also correct the wrong information that Telugu and Kannada evolved from same language. Telugu evolved from older Kannada language called Halegannada.

Till the Indus script is properly decoded the origin of Indian languages will remain shrouded in mystery. One has to factor in the period of Shruthi as b4 Smriti as well so all Indic languages do have this verbal period b4 characters r assigned to sounds & given there r huge gaps in Indian history due to invaders ,natural calamities we may never know which came 1st. But today each has its unique place & no equal beyond Bharat exists.

great video

South Indians were amazing Sanskrit scholars because they have quite strong connect with native languages!

Loved you videos. Very interesting and informative. Appreciate your efforts. However I want to bring to your notice that on the page where you have illustrated the evolution of the letter 'pa', the malayalam version has not been shown correctly.

Waiting for your next video

This was nice , where is part 2?

Sanskrit was written by Newar people from Kathmandu in Bhujimol script. We even have a brick that contains inscription referring to a name in Brahmi & Bhujimol mixed “Charumati” daughter of Ashoka The Great in display at Changunarayan Temple. 2300 year old history.

Wow.....great to know.....can you make a video on spread of different religions in India too

I had visited Mahabalipuram in 1977 as an engineering student

Waiting for the part 2

Boht boht Shukriya maam

a quality film/documentary compare to bbc/national geography channels. presentation is plain english to understand by a everyone. congrats to get more views and subscrption

Interesting

They failed to mention that in the temple where they showed the wall inscriptions, on the floor there are inscriptions about Rajaraja Chozhan.

It's astonishing how one ancient script gave birth to so many distinct scripts across vast lands

அது Tamil இல்லை சார் மாத்திக்கங்க தமிழ் என்றாலே *ழ்* தான் அழகு உலகில் எந்த மொழிக்கும் இல்லாத அழகு * தமிழ்* Tamil. என்று உச்சரிக்க வேண்டாம். Tamizhi என்று எழுதுங்கள்.

Excellent video...But would like to point out that the malayalam letter Pa is shown wrong. It is actually more like the example of pa shown in grantha script from the video(പ). Really looking forwars for your next video

Tamil is a very unique language than any languages in India. There are only two types of language patterns in India. One is Tamil root and the other one is Sanskrit mixed root. All the North India languages are Sanskrit + Persian mixed. Accept Tamil ,all the South Indian languages are Tamil + Sanskrit mixed. Now, there are many letters which Sanskrit has , doesn't have in Tamil. All the Indian languages have Sanskrit sounds and letters except Tamil. Hard souns like Bha,dha..thaa..taa...etc.etc and all are in Sanskrit while Tamil doesn't have those sounds or letters. Why is that ? This is where you can rationale and scientifically think something . Tamil has millions of words for all the things around the South Indian region to call. From the germs ,plants ,trees and objects around them to far away planets there are pure Tamils words without the use of Hard sounds which is existing in Sanskrit. Those hard sounds comming from the Naval area while the Tamil sounds are generating between heart or upper belly to brain area. That means when you speak Tamil..the vibration of the body mostly happened between the upper belly to brain area while the Sanskrit is Naval to Brain. Keep in mind that as the humans we usually eat three meals and each meals is talking around 3 hours to digest. You eat the food while you awake..and at the same time you speak or do communication only while you awake. So, while your food is in the stomach..putting your force to make a sound from the Naval can disturb the digestion process. So, this language was essentially evolved with that practice in mind. All they need is to have words to communicate with other people and they made it such a without the hard sounds. Also due to higers vibration of upper region of our body (between the upper belly to Brain..) Then the vibration of the brain areas can get more blood supply to the Brain..Our brain is like a antenna. So, when the brain is vibrating continually, then those antennas are tuned up to download the cosmic archives much easier than others. That's is is the reason I believe in Tamil Nadu region has the highest number of inventions than anyone in Indian region. 18 siddhas .. Adishankara.. Ranamanujar.. Tholkaapiyam.. Thiruvalluvar.. To AR.Rahman..Visvanath Anandan..three Nobel prize Winners from Tamil nadu and all are continuosly happening due to the Tamil language speaking is my believe (it is a hypothesis or a my own theory.i would like to see the if any counter arguments). So, Tamil is very unique and lived in India as a one man. Later ..when the Aryans started to settle here and due to there impact, Tamilians have mixed with them and other languages was born. Other than Tamil ,all the south Indian languages,have those Hard sounds mixed up. Without those sounds ,those other south Indian languages cannot exist on their own. But, Tamil can exist 100% without those sounds. That's why It is very clear that Kannada ,Telungu and all are clearly The languages evolved after the Sanskrit was born. But, Tamil was born before the Sanskrit and it evolved uniquely than any languages.

Kadamba script is from 4th century AD not from 6th century as you have mentioned. Earliest copper plate inscriptions in dravidian language is in kannada.

The Malayalam letter depicted in the “The letter ‘Pa’” chart at 7:42 is actually the letter “kha”. The letter Pa in. Malayalam is the same as the Grantha letter above.

This is is a good initiative....please also have tamizh versions of this too :) 🔱

Sanskrit is Avestan Persian in the beginning and later sanskrit was infused with Prakrit which it swallowed later and that is only 500AD...

Lovely video! Back in the day, there was only 1 ‘Brahmi’ script but today, we have so many of its descendants used today! Such as… 🇮🇳 हिन्दी 🇧🇩 বাংলা 🇮🇳 తెలుగు 🇮🇳 தமிழ் 🇮🇳 ગુજરાતી 🇮🇳 ಕನ್ನಡ 🇮🇳 ଓଡିଆ 🇮🇳 മലയാളം 🇮🇳 ਪੰਜਾਬੀ 🇧🇹 ལྷ་སའི་སྐད་ 🇱🇰 සිංහල 🇲🇲 မြန်မာစကား 🇹🇭 ภาษาไทย 🇱🇦 ພາສາລາວ 🇰🇭 ភាសាខ្មែរ *not 🇵🇰 اُردو though!* How many of these languages can you recognise? 😄

Please make this video in Tamil and in other indian languages so even common people in india know about their history.

Sir, thanks for a wonderful video. Tulu language is one among the five Dravidian languages and has its own script. Can you please tell us about Tulu script also ?

Super News Video

Very informative! Please update the completely erroneous Wikipedia, which claims that tamil and and all other southern Indian languages have completely different lineages. Sanskrit is exclusively proto European and southern Indian languages are Davidian. It was done to divide Indians. Though there is clear connection between Latin and Sanskrit but there is even stronger connection between Sanskrit and Tamil. The connection is much deeper than just “few loan words” as described by western historians and linguists.

I couldn't find the references to the claims made in this video. Have they been linked?

Great work, unbiased and honest. Tamil is indigenous language of the land not influenced by Sanskrit, Urudu, Persian over the years.

7:29 💯

Thanks

Thanks!

thank you

Please make a detailed documentary on the "Edukkal caves" found at Wayanad Kerala.

Given that Sangam literature has so many words that we associate today with Sanskrit not to mention the word Sangam itself, I'm not sure you can say Sanskrit had a muted presence in the Tamil land before the Pallavas. What seems to be true is that Tamil culture was at least as advanced as the Sanskritic culture it encountered to exchange vocabulary with it in a confident, self-assured, and orderly way. Also since we're all speculating anyways, it would be worth speculating that Tamil Brahmi was the forebearer of Ashokan Brahmi given that its inscriptions predate Ashoka's. And further we could speculate a sea route for the Phoenician and Aramaic scripts to have reached south India first. We need to speculate and see if such hypotheses are plausible - instead of just repeating hundred year old western historiography, good as it may have been in parts.

The script found in Indus Valley in early 19th century by British, Brahmins who had close working relationships with the British claimed it was their early form of their language Sanskrit and named it ‘Brahmi’. However, in later years, it was proved with facts those scripts were Tamil and read using Tamil language: so correct as Tamil Brahmi. It should be called is Tamizhi or Tamizh.

Can you please also talk about Northern Dravidian languages like bruhai... Thank you

"Kal thondri man thondra kalathu mun thondriya mutha kudi Tamil kudi". This is from a poem (belong to 9th CE ) The actual meaning of this quote is kal thondri(before we start built the house using stones) man thodra (before human divide the land based on kingdoms) mun thondriya mutha kudi Tamil(It is all come after the tamil people formed).

Congratulations. please talk about VOC

I was under the impression that sanskrit was used to write the Rigg Vedas.ive also heard that the Vedas could be as old 9,000 years old according to embedded astronomical alignments in the Vedas. I learned this from the channel Boaz Mysteries

Mammallapuram is a treasure

Wwas the old tamil brahmi script not related to the script from IVC? You mentioned in your other video that the artifaccts uncovered in Keeladi showed script used in the IVC. Couldn't the later tamil script, called tamil brahmi be related to that?

pls make a video between king purushottam and alexander

Is it "Samskrutam" or "Saanskrit" which is the name of the language?

I hundred percent agree Telugu (my mother language) has more affinity to Sanskrit than Hindi. It was almost impossible for me to master the literary Telugu of poet srinatha. It was so complex for a young student but I’m still persevering.

A very good analysis and compilation on the "Evolution of Languages and Script in South India". But, recent artifacts from Keezhadi and Kodumanal tell a very different history on the Evolution of Thamizh. In fact these findings are seemingly going to force us, and the Historians, into REWRITING THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE HUMANKIND IN INDIA!! Because, the very origin of the human race itself is converging down to South India, Thamizh Naadu and Lemiris or Kumarik Kandam. Let us see on this after going thru your next video.

:D 🔱..... Kumari kandam

So, how do these discoveries relate to the hypothesis of an Aramaic based transmission of Phoenician script to Brahmi? Specifically, is that hypothesis still valid given these findings, and if so, what route could it have taken?

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Why Bhattiprolu script looks similar to Indus valley era script?