File:Punjabi-language manuscript of the 'Ekadashi Mahatam' written in a Punjabi variant of Sharada script, ca.1200–1300.jpg
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English: Punjabi-language manuscript of the 'Ekadashi Mahatam' written in Sharada [alt. spelt as 'Sharda'] script, ca.1200–1300. The manuscript was discovered in 1969 and published in 1978 in 'Ekadasi Mahatam' by Trilochan Singh Bedi [alt. spelt as 'Tarlochan'] and 'Ancient Punjabi Prose' by Piara Singh Padam, 1978' (Punjabi: ਏਕਾਦਸੀ ਮਹਾਤਮ, ਡਾ ਤ੍ਰਿਲੋਚਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਬੇਦੀ, ਪ੍ਰਾਚੀਨ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਗਦ, ਡਾ ਪਦਮ, 1978).
The manuscript is written in a later version of the Punjabi variety of Sharada script. Sharada script was the script which was used for Sanskrit in northwestern India before the start of Islamic-rule, after-which then Perso-Arabic script became the official script of the Delhi Sultanate. The manuscript is of the Ekadashi Mahatam, which has been dated back to the 13th–14th centuries. The text explains the importance of the day of Ekdashi day in Hinduism. An Ekadashi is the eleventh lunar day of the waxing and waning lunar cycles of the Bikrami Calendar (traditional Indic calendar). Transliteration of the contents of the Sharada script text into Gurmukhi script:
Gurmukhi transliteration from: 'A Critical Study of Punjabi Prose' (page 23), 1972 (Punjabi: ਪੰਨਾ ੨੩, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਾਰਤਕ ਦਾ ਆਲੋਚਨਾਤਮਕ ਅਧਿਅਨ, 1972) A more recent criticism of the dating of the manuscript attributes it to the 1700's, but this ignores the fact that Sharada had ceased to exist in Punjab and became restricted to the Kashmir Valley, that too with a handful of Kashmiri Pandits, by the 1500's. Sharada script was not monolithic. Its Kashmiri variety was different from the Punjabi variety, which was actually different and diverged from one another from the older Sharda script of the 10th–11th centuries. 16 characters of Sharada script match Gurmukhi to some extent. |
| Date | ca.1200–1300 |
| Source | Instagram post by user @tawarikh_e_punjab, via: [1] |
| Author | Unknown scribe |
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