Devakshara Charita


Devakshara Charita or Devakshar Charitra (Bhojpuri: š‘‚ š‘‚µš‘‚«š‘‚°š‘‚š‘‚¹š‘‚“š‘‚© š‘‚’š‘‚©š‘‚±š‘‚ž; IAST: Devākį¹£arcarita; Transl.: The Character of the Divine Alphabet) is a Bhojpuri play by Ramdatta Shukla which was written in 1884,[1] which is also considered as first published drama of Bhojpuri.[2] This play was written to emphasize the supremacy of the Devanagari script and to highlight the drawbacks of Urdu script.[3][4] It was written and published in 1884 from lite press, Varanasi.[citation needed]

Devakshara Charita
Written byRamdatta Shukla
Date premiered1884
SubjectSupremacy of Devanagari over Persian
GenreTheatre

ReferencesEdit

  1. ↑ Grierson, G. A. (1903). Linguistic Survey of India, Vol. V, Part II.
  2. ↑ Jain, Dinesh (26 July 2007). The Indo-Aryan Languages. p.Ā 519. ISBNĀ 978-1135797119.
  3. ↑ Bihar District Gazetteers: Shahabad. p.Ā 130.
  4. ↑ Fishman, Joshua A. (1993). The Earliest Stage of Language Planning: The "first Congress" Phenomenon. p.Ā 119. ISBNĀ 3110135302.