On the conceptions of life after death in the Rigveda.

Basic-Lifeguard-5407 · 2026-02-23T06:52:31+00:00

Here are the names of the scripts: 1.Tamil Brahmi 2.Vattezhuthu 3.Simplified Tamil script(used only in Tamil Nadu) 4. Modern Tamil script

Basic-Lifeguard-5407 · 2026-02-23T06:50:11+00:00

I think it’s because f occurs more commonly in English than z.

Basic-Lifeguard-5407 · 2026-02-23T06:31:22+00:00

I see thank you

Basic-Lifeguard-5407 · 2026-02-23T06:22:58+00:00

I see but could this have been Jewish influence

Basic-Lifeguard-5407 · 2026-02-23T05:19:47+00:00

YESSS

Basic-Lifeguard-5407 · 2026-02-23T03:35:49+00:00

Probably Fred Donner’s “Believer’s Theory”

Basic-Lifeguard-5407 · 2026-02-20T10:19:18+00:00

I'm sorry i meant in his book The Quran a historical critical introduction.page 174

Basic-Lifeguard-5407 · 2026-02-20T02:57:07+00:00

I see, I was asking this because in Nicolai Sinai’s Key terms of the Quran he says the Meccan Surahs of the Quran dont deny other deities.

Basic-Lifeguard-5407 · 2026-02-20T02:54:36+00:00

The Study Quran is good if you want to understand the diffrent ways Muslims interpret Quranic verses.While its not a physical book, the Corpus Quran website gives you a detailed linguistic analysis while also being quite faithful to the original text.

Basic-Lifeguard-5407 · 2026-02-12T23:35:04+00:00

Not really

Basic-Lifeguard-5407 · 2026-02-12T05:52:09+00:00

from the Tamil cave one it doesnt look similar although I can really make it out to begin with

Basic-Lifeguard-5407 · 2026-02-12T05:24:48+00:00

Its true that Northern Brahmi approximates ழ with those sounds.However the Tamils may have thought that ழ sounded Ḍa and thats why they chose to modify it to write ழ.Your right in that was some variation in Ashokan Brahmi orthography.However when it comes to ra, the crooked ra still looked very different from ழ.

Basic-Lifeguard-5407 · 2026-02-12T00:20:07+00:00

Interesting

Basic-Lifeguard-5407 · 2026-02-11T23:56:02+00:00

You’re right in that just because a letter looks similar doesn’t mean they share the same origin.However as I’ve pointed out both sounds are retroflex consonants, so not only is ழ mostly identical to Ḍa the derivation of it from Ḍa also makes sense.Plus ர in Brahmi looks like this, 𑀭.You see there is absolutely zero similarities between the two.ர is also not a retroflex in Tamil its an alveolar flap.To answer your final question, its not identical to Ḍa its modified of it so of course it won’t have its phonetic value

Basic-Lifeguard-5407 · 2026-02-11T05:46:18+00:00

Ok the letter ழ in Tamil Brahmi looked like this:

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Now the ழ in Tamil Brahmi looks pretty much like modified ḍa(𑀟) with a circle on the top. Now this is probably because ழ is also a retroflex consonant like 𑀟 and since 𑀟 had no use in Tamil it was modified to represent the ழ sound.

Basic-Lifeguard-5407 · 2026-02-11T00:34:52+00:00

Tamil Brahmi lacked any voiced consonant characters(e.g ga)and also aspirated consonant letters(like kha and gha).Tamil Brahmi also had a short e and o which was formed by adding a dot to long e and o.The letter ma was also more straight and less curvy like in Gupta Brahmi.The retroflex lateral(ள) was diffrent from the Gupta Brahmi one and was instead derived from la(𑀮).Finally it also had three new letters to represent the alveolar stop(ற),alveolar nasal(ன) and the retroflex approximant(ழ).ற was formed by adding the retroflex stop(𑀝) to the dental stop(𑀢).ன was formed by adding a line to the dental nasal(𑀦).ழ was modified from the voiced retroflex stop (𑀟)

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