Using Devanagari for Sanskrit

[tccahill]

Sorry for the late reply to this thread. The word devanagari
occurs twice in the Shahnameh, a source for many early
Orientalists. No other names of Indian scripts are mentioned
in that early 11th century text. It's possible that the
Persian perspective on devanagari as an "all-India" script
contributed to the politics of making it seem transregional.

best,
Tim Cahill
Loyola University


----- Original Message Follows -----
From: mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Use of Devanagari for Sanskrit
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 12:00:49 -0500

> To what extent was Devanagari viewed as
> somehow "transregional" even before the