[INDOLOGY] Early Representations of OM

[Nagaraj Paturi]

There is an interesting proposal for the Brahmi representation of Om in
this conversation here:

https://www.quora.com/Ancient-India-How-was-the-symbol-OM-written-in-Brahmi-script

One Kingsley Jegan Joseph writes here :

If it was written (I haven't seen one actually written in an inscription),
it would look something like this.
[image: Inline image 1]

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 6:06 AM, Harry Spier <hspier.muktabodha at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm more than happy to forward the articles sent to me on OM but none
> of them were about the representation of OM.
>
> Harry Spier
>
> On 5/6/16, Nagaraj Paturi <nagarajpaturi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In
> >
> >
> http://list.indology.info/pipermail/indology_list.indology.info/2016-January/042596.html
> >
> > Harry Spier thanked list members for sending articles on OM.
> >
> > Contacting him should be helpful to her.
> >
> > On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 12:19 AM, Nagaraj Paturi <nagarajpaturi at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Ganesh-Vidya: The Traditional Indian Approach to Phonetic Writing by L.
> >> S. Wakankar has a discussion on the shape of om.
> >>
> >> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 12:10 AM, Nagaraj Paturi <
> nagarajpaturi at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> There was a thread on this.
> >>>
> >>> This post thee:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> http://list.indology.info/pipermail/indology_list.indology.info/2016-January/042599.html
> >>>
> >>> should be useful to her.
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Corinna Wessels-Mevissen via INDOLOGY
> <
> >>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> _______________________________________________
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> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >>>> From: Corinna Wessels-Mevissen <corinnawessels at yahoo.de>
> >>>> To: "indology at list.indology.info" <indology at list.indology.info>
> >>>> Cc:
> >>>> Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 18:29:24 +0000 (UTC)
> >>>> Subject: Early Representations of OM
> >>>> Dear All,
> >>>>
> >>>> A colleague of mine, who is not a List member, Prof. Doris M.
> >>>> Srinivasan, asks the following question on the part of a
> >>>> recent Harvard PhD, who worked on the development of OM in the Vedas:
> >>>>
> >>>> "Does any one have knowledge and/or references regarding the imagery
> >>>> (sculpture; images on manuscripts; any sort of visual renderings) of
> OM
> >>>> from any period through the medieval period?"
> >>>>
> >>>> Kindly either write to her directly (dmswh at earthlink.net), to me
> >>>> off-list, or to the List, of course. Thank you!
> >>>>
> >>>> Best wishes,
> >>>>
> >>>> Corinna Wessels-Mevissen
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Nagaraj Paturi
> >>>
> >>> Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.
> >>>
> >>> Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies
> >>>
> >>> FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,
> >>>
> >>> (Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Nagaraj Paturi
> >>
> >> Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.
> >>
> >> Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies
> >>
> >> FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,
> >>
> >> (Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Nagaraj Paturi
> >
> > Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.
> >
> > Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies
> >
> > FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,
> >
> > (Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )
> >
>



-- 
Nagaraj Paturi

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,

(Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )


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