Devakshara Charita

Devakshara Charita or Devakshar Charitra (Bhojpuri: ๐‘‚ ๐‘‚ต๐‘‚ซ๐‘‚ฐ๐‘‚๐‘‚น๐‘‚ญ๐‘‚ฉ ๐‘‚’๐‘‚ฉ๐‘‚ฑ๐‘‚ž IAST: Devฤkแนฃarcarita; 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.

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

References

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