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myself in Urdu Shorthand in the Tineknow Christian School of Commerce,, I always experienced some difficulty in following speakers using a large
Since 1
qualified
Consequently I set about to adapt the Isaac Pitman System of shorthand to the Hindi Language. In the following pages the results of my study and practical experience are laid down and I trust
of Sanskrit
number
words.
that by going carefully through them a shorthand writer will feel no difficulty in following a speech studded with a
large
number
of Sanskrit
Sanskrit Scriptures.
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*
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portions and extracts from their for the purposes of this book.
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All through the book I have kept one object in view the students, working on the Pitman system either i.e.)
English or Urdu, may find it easy to pick up Hindi shorthand with the least possible delay,
in
have taken the liberty to introduce the views of my dear father Pandit Jwala Pershad Trivedi, that every in is an evolution of Om and I trust the the world thing readers will find them interesting o and instructive,
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me
but
Needless to add that this system has been worked by for several years and I have not only found it useful
efficient
and
reliable.
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AGRA,
18th April il 7.925. 1925.
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RADHELAL
TRIVEDI.
an improvement on the system of Urdu shorthand which suffers from a defective vernmala having sometimes several characters for similar sounds
in Hindustani
it has got separate characters to represent kha (** 5 ) kha (^) ga (^J) gha () ja (tr).za 0) and again za (3) pha (**i) fa (^) while there are no charac-
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
ters for
are no logograms
for aiye
(Jl)
Chanda
volunteer
(*****)
deputation (&&
lecture
*?>)
(^^)
;
angrez (W^'i) angrezi (^;^ I), have been included a number of grammalogues seldom used in speech e.g., fizamanna (^^5 f^) chande
(tf.^9-)
madude
(^**| ^),
chand
etc,
(^'^
^^i^^*)
janaba
(**'**)
filbadih
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 sufficient to enable any student of ordinary intelligence to write shorthand correctly at the rate of So words per
minute.
THe
and doubling
to
feel
on
chapters on Prefixes,
tions
Suffixes,
Grammalogues, Contracfeel
no
difficulty
in
taking minute.
words per
The grammalogues of this system have been selected from among the words most frequently used in speech
and the
outlines
of which are
tedious;
so
that by
down a lecture in vernacular. The adoption of the ya hook instead of the / has given simple outlines for a large number of words
he has to take
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
or Urdu.
Among
in
found
contributed to
make
;
system more simple and easy than those of the Urdu Shorthand, may be mentioned the Hindi of and of the teaching vyanjans system adoption the of the dip thongs (pages 30, 31) the swars, joining joining of the termination wat, the introduction of the
the
of
this
triphone and the adoption of the ya hook instead of the All these improvements and various other little used /.
devices adopted
simplified
the
from the Pitman's system have greatly this system and given it a study o
decidedly higher place than any other rival system either in Hindi or Urdu.
The
opinions of a
on Shorthand as
well
Literatures given in the end are enough to prove th<? great usefulness of this -book.
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