BBS Varnamala 003_ A for Apple

So how many ingredients we are going to use in the class room? ‘…now we know our ABC’. They really know the ABC well. I was not knowing it properly perhaps. ‘ ‘A for Apple’. How can I relate this to Devanagari? My A which we use as our first vowel was actually 20 letters apart from where I was understanding. Lets see where it will take us to. The phonetics of the letters were clear.  I asked where this script came from and what is the dialect you are using for? Latin scripts for English dialect. A borrowed scripts from other country. It used differently everywhere. It can be used anywhere where there is deficiency. The Vowels and

english mulakshare

consonants were sitting together in this case. The children were curious to know what additional 26 letters will be within 53. Before that I wanted to tell them little history of the Indian grammar. The Indian grammar is quite old mentioned in Narad Puran which was written during Mahabharat time by Vyas means 5000 years ago atleast. It must be even before that. For time-being this reference for enough for my classroom and for me as well. Indian languages got its own grammar book which was compiled in 500 bce. The book will be h

narad putran

 smallar than any of our text book. Just 4000 lines and he was done.  I could show them the book ‘ Ashtadhyayi having 4000 formulas which was 2500 yeas old. What was history of grammar we you know of the world at that time?  A more homework for me! I felt first time a student standing with a board and marker with 18 teachers sitting next to me.