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@meeper its so neat that the vedas are way older than the script used to write them. I love how you can write sanskrit with so many alphabets, there is no sanskrit alpabet

@meeper by alphabet I of course mean abugida

@georgia yeah brahmic characters were first used to record prakrits

also the alphabet technically existed before the script

@meeper @georgia When did the Vedic texts begin to be written down and how did this influence the literary culture of India? The śākhās didn't have a monopoly on the Vedas forever.

@Forestofenchantment @georgia not I think sanskrit started to be inscribed by around like 1bc

I suppose in the case of vedas not too much, it was an obligation for most brahmins and not for most others.

However afaik india did seem to have a naturallyndecent literacy rate (especially considerkng the sheer diversitu of scripts)