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Puthi
A puthi (, Arabic script, Perso-Arab: پوتھی) is a book or writing of poetic fairy tales and religious stories of Bengal and present-day East India, which were read by a senior "educated" person while others would listen. This was used as a medium for education and constructive entertainment. Terminology ''Puthis'' were manuscripts written in the Bengali language, Bengali or Odia language, Odia languages, utilising scripts such as the Odia script, Odia, Sylheti Nagri, Bengali alphabet, Bengali and Perso-Arabic script. They were mostly used in Bengal, Arakan and East India. ''Puthi'' (پوتھی, /po:t̪ʰi:/) is a Sanskrit originated feminine noun which means book. The pages of puthis could be Palm-leaf manuscript, leaves, leather, sheets of wood, or barks. This was common before the invention of paper. Usually, they were written on one side and bound with a piece of string. This made it resistant to insects as well, allowing it to survive for a long time. Abdul Karim Sahitya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sylheti Nagri
Sylheti Nagri or Sylheti Nāgarī (, , ), known in classical manuscripts as Sylhet Nagri () as well as by #Etymology and names, many other names, is an Indic script. The script was historically used in the regions of Bengal and Assam, that were east of the Padma River, Padma. It was primarily used in the eastern part of the Sylhet region, to document poetry known as ''puthis''. In the course of the twentieth century, it has lost much ground to the standardised Eastern Nagari script. Printing presses for Sylheti Nagri existed as late as into the 1970s, and in the 2000s, the script was added to the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (Basic Multilingual Plane, BMP). (See Syloti Nagri (Unicode block) for more details.) Historically the script was transcribed in Bengali language#Medieval, Middle Bengali, though having similar characteristics to the more popular Dobhashi literary dialect, it was distinguished for its phonological influence from Sylheti language, Sylheti. It is also cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
