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Hindus attribute the origin of two ancient languages of India to Lord Shiva. Both languages came from the sounds of kettle drum of Lord Shiva, they believe. Hindus are the only people who recited the 14 sutras that came from the lord. Every year, Brahmins repeat the 14 Maheswara (Shiva) Suutraani during their annual Upakarma Ceremony. On that day they change their sacred thread and restart the Vedic studies. No other language has this living tradition.

Paranjothi Munivar who lived 300 years ago said that Shiva created both these languages. Later Sivagnana Munivar and Bharatiyar repeated it. Hindu Puranas clearly say that Lord Shiva sent the seer Agastya to write a grammar for Tamil language. Tamil literature and later commentators also confirmed it.

Here is the first few lines from Bharatiya’s verse:

In the poem titled Mother Tamil,

Siva the supreme was my Father;

Sage Agastya took delight in me.

Grammar, complete and perfect

The Brahmin endowed me with- Bharatiyar

Linguistic scholars around the world acknowledge that Sanskrit grammar of Panini was the first grammar book in the world. Goldstucker dated it Seventh Century BCE.

And in the same way first thesaurus in the world was Amarakosa of Amarasimha. Vatsyayana, author of Sex book Kamasutra, even created a secret code word language. Sanskrit speakers have been using Aditya for number 12, Vasu for number 8, Rudra for number 11 etc. in their conversation.

Mario Pei, author of The Story of Language says,

“Many peoples believe their language or system of writing to be of divine origin. The name of the Sanskrit alphabet is Devanagari which means pertaining to the city of the gods. Hieroglyphic used by the ancient Egyptians or their formal documents, carved in stone, means sacred stone writing (the Egyptians also had the hieratic and demotic scripts , more generally used on papyrus). They believed that writing had been devised by Thoth, God of Wisdom, and the Egyptians name for writing was ndw-ntr, the speech of the Gods. The Assyrians had a legend to the effect that the cuneiform characters were given to man by the god Nebo, who held sway over human destiny. Cuneiform was produced  by pressing wedges into wet clay tablets (the name means wedge shaped); it was used by Sumerians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians  and other peoples of Mesopotamian region from about 4000 BCE to the time of Christ. The Mayas attributed writing to their most important deity Itzamna. The lost pre historic writing of Japan was styled kami no moji or divine characters”.

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Techniques of Secret Writing 

“ One of the earliest descriptions of encryption by substitution appears in the Kama Sutra, a text written in the fourth century AD by the Brahmin scholar Vatsyayana, but based on manuscripts dating back to fourth century BC. The Kama sutra recommends that women should study 64 arts, such as cooking dressing, massage and preparation of perfumes. The list also includes some less obvious arts, namely conjuring, chess, book binding and carpentry. Number 45 on the list is Mlechita-vikalpa, the art of secret writing, advocated in order to help women conceal the details of their liaisons. One of the recommended techniques is to pair letters of the alphabet at random, then substitute each letter in the original message with its partner. If we apply the principle to the Roman alphabet, we could pair letters as follows:

A D H I K M O R S U W Y Z

V X B G J C  Q L  N E  F P  T

Then, instead of MEET AT MIDNIGHT, the sender would write CU UZ VZ CGXSGIBZ. This form of secret writing is called a substitution cipher because each letter in the plaintext is substituted for a different letter, thus acting in a complimentary way to the transposition of cipher. In transposition each letter retains its identity but changes its position, where as in substitution each letter change its identity but retains its position.

—Subham—

Tags-Divine Origin , Sanskrit, Tamil , Ancient Languages, wrting system.