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I am to draw my brother-editors’ kind attention to the “17th February 2013 version” of page Aksara. You will find all statements made therein duly supported by proper references to their sources. The sources are independent and are not dubious. All those sources may kindly be re-perused. The existing version does not reflect what I had attempted to convey. May be, I had not been able to do so properly. I had even requested for restoration of this page to its “17th February 2013 version” to be worked upon, which request has not found favour.

Aksara is an important term in Hindu Thought and deserves a separate page.

In the Rig Veda I.34.4 the term Aksara does not refer to water as such but to the flow of three kinds of information/knowledge thrice a day from the teacher to the aspirant – asme triha shikshatama naanadyama aksaraeva prakshah triha pinvatama. (Ref. Rig Veda I (with translation and commentary by Swami Dayananda Saraswati published by Sarvadeshik Arya Pratinidhi Sabha, page 188, http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Rigveda_with_Dayananda_Saraswati_s_C.html?id=W3PXAAAAMAAJ ) This is made clear in Rig Veda I.164.42 where Aksara refers to the imperishable word – tat aksarama kshariti. (Ref.Rig Veda I (with translation and commentary by Swami Dayananda Saraswati published by Sarvadeshik Ara Pratinidhi Sabha, page 843, http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Rigveda_with_Dayananda_Saraswati_s_C.html?id=W3PXAAAAMAAJ ) The term ‘Ap’ , meaning ‘water’, does not figure in these two mantras.

There is no mythology involved so far as Rig Veda is concerned. Rig Veda subtly depicts the development of human thought in the Indian context; Upanishads are a part of Vedic literature. I had briefly dealt with Aksara four-folds i.e. according to its relevance in the light of 1) Indian Writing system, 2) Vedas and the Upanishads, 3) the Bhagavad Gita and 4) Hindu philosophy, expecting a later expansion through contributions by others.

I am not a teacher and therefore, I cannot offer explanations as do my other more learned experienced brother-editors, but my concept is clear and fault-free. You may agree or may not agree but in the process please do not pour scorn on my attempt and also on the Rig Veda etc.Aditya soni (talk) 07:43, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Writing System Term

Should we hive the writing system term off to a separate article 'Akshara'? The article Shiksha is primarily concerned with Sanskrit, whereas the akshara as a concept in writing systems has a wider application. I feel there ought to be more information under Brahmic scripts, but the greater details that are common are either missing or duplicated under the individual scripts. There's more to aksharas than just (pseudo-)onset consonants and vowels. --RichardW57m (talk) 13:49, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]