tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54145340793069645992022-04-06T03:57:46.489-07:00Modi Lipi or Modi ScriptUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414534079306964599.post-8281151807461436542015-09-07T10:12:00.000-07:002009-07-08T05:07:01.753-07:00Modi Lipi Alphabets<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z5E-VMncGgc/SMQM4wEhNNI/AAAAAAAAAFM/-ZvmaQdq34Q/s1600-h/modi+mulakshare.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243330035282162898" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z5E-VMncGgc/SMQM4wEhNNI/AAAAAAAAAFM/-ZvmaQdq34Q/s320/modi+mulakshare.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Moḍī (मोडी) is the name of one of the scripts used to write the Marathi language, which is the primary language spoken in the state of Maharashtra in western India. There are several theories about the origin of this script. One of them claims that it was developed by Hemadpant (or Hemadri Pandit) during the reign of Mahadev Yadav and Ramdev Yadav (1260-1309). Others claim that it was brought by Hemandpant from Sri Lanka.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com54tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414534079306964599.post-13894820699975992432012-11-15T20:56:00.000-08:002013-08-26T19:38:37.760-07:00Modi Lipi Cursive<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Modi Lipi is hard to recognize, because it is written in cursive manner. Cursive means writing the letters jointly or connected to each other. So the Modi Script becomes unique as per who is writing. The letters are connected to each other in such manner, that it creates the confusion in the reader's mind. It was a easy job for the old people because they were possessing the skills to recognize them. But today, we as beginners, and trying to save this ancient script, are nearly incapable to understand what our ancestors have written in Modi Lipi.<br /><br />Learning Modi Lipi, is not for the purpose of writing it, but it is for the understanding what our ancestors have written. The common problem for even the well versed Modi Lipi expert is to understand the cursive Modi Lipi documents.<br /><br />On this post we will be showing some documents which are written in cursive Modi Lipi Script. A little wait is expected!!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414534079306964599.post-47426271523755935952012-11-13T22:00:00.001-08:002012-11-13T22:00:05.458-08:00Submit Modi Lipi Documents<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Modi lipi is the most anicient script mainly written by Peshwas. It is used widely for official use till 20th century in Maharashtra. With the advancement of formal Marathi language, Modi lipi vanished from our regular practice. Now it is a problem, to read those important and ancient document. Modilipi.in appeals you to submit the ancient Modi lipi document to this site with your full name and address. The credit of those documents will be given to the provider. The photocopy or the scanned copy of the documents should be sent to info@modilipi.in, after the varification, your document will find the space here, with your name. Thanks in advance. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414534079306964599.post-400538877319185092012-11-13T20:44:00.002-08:002012-11-13T20:44:40.151-08:00Modi Lipi Books<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Here are some books in Marathi for learning Modi Lipi or Modi Script.<br /><br /><br />1. Tumhich Modi Shika : Author : Madhukar Kulkarni<br /><br />2. Modi Vachan Lekhan : Author : G. R. Walimbe<br /><br />3. Modi Shika : Author : Gangadhar Mahambare<br /><br />4. Lekhanprashasti : Author : Anuradha Kulkarni<br /><br /><br /><i><br /></i><i>Dear readers, if you know some other new books on Modi Lipi please inform us by commenting on this post.</i><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 268px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="body_text_blue"><br /></td> <td class="body_text"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414534079306964599.post-68571144628282765992012-11-13T19:54:00.002-08:002012-11-13T19:54:37.309-08:00Modi Lipi Classes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">As we know how important Modi Lipi is for us, we need classes to promote the training of this distinct script. We appeal to you, if you know any such classes in your locality, or you are the owner, please mail us or comment on this post with details of classes, timing, location, fees and email id, and mobile number. We would include them on this site without any cost. We together can revive this old traditional script, once ruled our ancestors. So feel free to comment or mail here! Thank you very much. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com77tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414534079306964599.post-72578554694972972362012-11-12T19:15:00.000-08:002012-11-12T19:34:10.569-08:00Modi Lipi Training<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Here is a Modi Lipi Training Video, that will help you to master the skills to write in Modi lipi or recognize the documents written in Modi Lipi.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/NtUWaGQLw9Y?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0' /></div><br /><i>The credit goes to Rajesh Khilari.</i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414534079306964599.post-77452314175272029572011-02-13T05:12:00.000-08:002012-11-12T19:20:26.701-08:00History Of Modi Lipi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"></span><br /><div style="font-family: 'Lucida sans unicode', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"><b>Modi script of Maharashtra :</b></span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: 'Lucida sans unicode', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"> </span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: 'Lucida sans unicode', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"> A script, which is generally neglected to be mentioned in the discussion on the Indian scripts, is Modi. The use of Modi in official Marathi documents and administration was common in Maharashtra till the end of 19<sup>th</sup> century. The British Government of Bombay Presidency in the beginning of 20<sup>th</sup> century for the sake of convenience and uniformity with the other areas of the presidency decided that the Devnagari (Balbodh as it is called in Maharashtra) should be used as a primary writing system in administration. Thus the Devnagari became the predominant script although modi continued to be taught in schools and was used as an alternate script in Marathi writing. The script was widely used even in 1940s by the people of older generation for personal and financial documentation. With the time however the use of modi diminished and now it has become almost extinct.</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: 'Lucida sans unicode', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"> </span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: 'Lucida sans unicode', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"> Traditionally it is believed that the Modi script was developed by Hemadpant, a well-known administrator in the court of Ramdevrao, the last king of Yadav dynasty (1187-1318) at Devgiri. Hemadpant is also credited with a specific temple architecture called “Hemadpanti temples”. The general use of Modi in administration is however seems to be introduced by Balaji Avaji Chitnis, a minister in Chhatrapati Shivaji’s court. It is said that Balaji while attending Durbar (Mogul Court) at Delhi observed that for the fast transcription of Persian proceedings in Mogul court were written in Shikasta (broken) script as against Nastaliq script, a clear but slower Persian handwriting. Balaji recognized the importance of speed of writing in administrative affairs and thus introduced the Modi script in Maratha administration (35). The term Modi seems to be literal translation of Persian term Shikasta.</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: 'Lucida sans unicode', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"> </span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: 'Lucida sans unicode', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"> Strandberg in her work on the Modi documents from Tanjore in Danish collection (36) has given interesting information on Modi writing along with complete series of twelve letters of Marathi alphabets i.e. Barakhadi. The work also contains various theories regarding the origin of modi writing including some fanciful suggestions such as “Paishachi” was written in Modi. We, however, know that the legend of Gunadhyay and Kanubhuti Vetal attached to Brihtkatha belongs to 2<sup>nd</sup>century. Modi is strictly written below the line unlike any other scripts of 2<sup>nd</sup> century such as Brahmi or Kharoshti. Moreover many letters in Modi are the same as in Devnagari. On the basis of known documents it is safe to assume that the Modi was not developed before 12<sup>th</sup> century.</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: 'Lucida sans unicode', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"> Source from the blog </span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: 'Lucida sans unicode', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida sans unicode', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://narendranath.webs.com/">http://narendranath.webs.com/</a></span></span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Visit <a href="http://narendranath.webs.com/">here</a> for original article</span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414534079306964599.post-46877802207872393252008-09-07T10:19:00.000-07:002012-11-12T19:21:09.847-08:00Barakhadi of Modi Lipi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z5E-VMncGgc/SMQNd-O-tXI/AAAAAAAAAFc/TFaMFuAOvnI/s1600-h/modi+barakhadi1.JPG"></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z5E-VMncGgc/SMQNXPNhoTI/AAAAAAAAAFU/jx6gR5ZPYRk/s1600-h/modi+barakhadi1.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243330559037514034" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z5E-VMncGgc/SMQNXPNhoTI/AAAAAAAAAFU/jx6gR5ZPYRk/s320/modi+barakhadi1.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br />In any case, there seems to be consensus among scholars that the word "Moḍī" is a translation of the Persian word "Shikasta", which means "breaking". Modi was developed as a faster way of writing Marathi as compared to the more complicated Devanagari script. This was done by "breaking" some of the characters of the alphabet (to make them simpler) and also by making them more "circular" in shape, which aided in moving from one character to the next without lifting the pen from the paper. Thus, Modi was a sort of "cursive" (not "shorthand") style of writing Marathi, although reading it may not have been as easy.<br /><br />Charles Wilkins developed Moḍī metal types, which were used to a limited extent to publish books. The script was still in use until around 1950, when it was officially discontinued due to the difficulty in printing with this script. All Marathi writing since then has been written and printed in the Devanagari script, which is the same script as is used to write Hindi and some other Indian languages.<br /><br />Some linguists in Pune have recently begun trying to revive the script</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3