Shree Brahmakshar Prakash

OR

THE HINDI SHORTHAND MANUALBEING

A PRACTICAL AND UP-TO-DATE SYSTEMOF SHORTHAND ADAPTED FROMSIR ISAAC PITMAN'S SYSTEM

DEVELOPED BY

RADHELAL TR1VEDI,SHORTHAND REPORTER,

UNITED PROVINCES POLICE.

All rights reserved.

FIKST EDITION \ Price 2/8.500 COPIES. J

Printed by Khwaja Saddiq Hussain at the Agra Akhbar Press,

Agra and published' by the author.

Since 1 qualified myself in Urdu Shorthand in the

Tineknow Christian School of Commerce,, I always experi-

enced some difficulty in following speakers using a large

number of Sanskrit words. Consequently I set about to

adapt the Isaac Pitman System of shorthand to the Hindi

Language. In the following pages the results of mystudy and practical experience are laid down and I trust

that by going carefully through them a shorthand writer

will feel no difficulty in following a speech studded with a

large number of Sanskrit words and quotations from

Sanskrit Scriptures.

1 take this opportunity of expressing my gratitude to

Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd. Bath, England, for

their kind permission to let me use their shorthand signs*

portions and extracts from their Copy right Text books

for the purposes of this book.

All through the book I have kept one object in view

i.e.) the students, working on the Pitman system either

in English or Urdu, may find it easy to pick up Hindi

shorthand with the least possible delay,

I have taken the liberty to introduce the views of mydear father Pandit Jwala Pershad Trivedi, that every

thing in the world is an evolution of Om and I trust the

readers will find them interesting and instructive,o

Needless to add that this system has been worked byme for several years and I have not only found it useful

but efficient and reliable.

AGRA, "I

il 7.925. j18th April 1925. ) RADHELAL TRIVEDI.

A lote on the System of Hindi Shorthand,

This work is an improvement on the system of Urdushorthand which suffers from a defective vernmala

having sometimes several characters for similar sounds

in Hindustani it has got separate characters to repre-

sent kha (**5) kha (^) ga (^J) gha () ja (tr).za 0) and

again za (3) pha (**i) fa (^) while there are no charac-

ters for some of the most important sounds ^g*,, sya

(pi) shya (spqr) swa (**) shwa (^=f) vaya (srwr) yawa (*ra)

gya (w) ksha ($i) mam (*f) which so frequently occur in

Hindustani. It has also an / hook, although there are only

a few words having / at^heir end, The grammalogues,

too, in Urdu shorthand, do not contain all the words for

which logograms ought to have been provided e.g., there

are no logograms for aiye (Jl) vyakhyan (e)-*tf *?>)

Chanda (*****) deputation (&& *$.')) khandan

Mandli (^&*>+) Sabhapati (^i *+*) honorary

volunteer (>*2^I>) lecture (^^) resolution (^>*-S;))

angrez (W^'i) angrezi (^;^;I), etc., although there

have been included a number of grammalogues seldom

used in speech e.g., fizamanna (^^5 f^) chande

(tf.^9-) madude chand (^'^ ^^i^^*) janaba (**'**)

filbadih (^**| ^), etc,

Tjie fourteen fundamental characters of this system

represented by the seven sutras and their shorthand

equivalents (page 11) enable the student at once to

master the 'oyanjans of Hindi shorthand. This coupled

with the knowledge of swars (pages 18 and 30) is suffi-

cient to enable any student of ordinary intelligence to

write shorthand correctly at the rate of So words per

minute.

THe further chapters on circles, loop, hooks, halving

and doubling principles then become an easy study on

account of the interest in the subject the student begins

to feel on his every day-progress and after finishing the

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chapters on Prefixes, Suffixes, Grammalogues, Contrac-

tions and Phraseography he should feel no difficulty in

taking down any speech at the rate of 150 words per

minute.

The grammalogues of this system have been selected

from among the words most frequently used in speechand the outlines of which are tedious; so that by

memorizing them a student has a great advantage whenhe has to take down a lecture in vernacular.

The adoption of the ya hook instead of the / has

given simple outlines for a large number of words

having ya sound at their end.

The elimination of unnecessary characters and the

introduction of important ones has enabled the system

correctly to record all sounds occurring either in Hindi

or Urdu.

Among the most important improvements, not found

in Urdu Shorthand and which have contributed to makethe outlines of this system more simple and easy than

those of the Urdu Shorthand, may be mentioned ; the

adoption of the Hindi system of teaching vyanjans and

swars, the joining of the dipthongs (pages 30, 31) the

joining of the termination wat, the introduction of the

triphone and the adoption of the ya hook instead of the

little used /. All these improvements and various other

devices adopted from the Pitman's system have greatly

simplified the study o this system and given it a

decidedly higher place than any other rival system either

in Hindi or Urdu.

The opinions of a number of competent authorities

on Shorthand as well as on the Hindi and Sanskrit

Literatures given in the end are enough to prove th<?

great usefulness of this -book.

RADHE LAL TRIVEDJ,SHORTHAND REPORTER,United Provinces Police*

ALLAHABAD,

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