Written by: Danish Manzoor
Today is the International Day of Pahari Language. Happy International Day of Pahari Language to all my friends who speak Pahari language. On this occasion, my heart cannot help but say where we stand. Suddenly, today I came across this ancient manuscript circulating on Facebook, in which some knowledge is written on a piece of paper in the Sharda script.
For me, these are not just letters, they are the voice of a civilization. The identity of a nation that was connected to its language, its knowledge and its land. Our languages, our dialects, including Pahari, are gradually disappearing from our lives. We have put our own identity behind us in the name of progress. We want to learn every language in the world, but we feel hesitant to speak our mother tongue.
One thing should always be remembered that the history of a nation whose language dies, its thinking and its identity also fade away. The Pahari language is not a collection of words, it is the lullaby of our mother, it is the wisdom of our elders and above all, it is the fragrance of our land.
On the occasion of this day, I congratulate all my friends in my region who speak the Pahari language, from the bottom of my heart, on this International Pahari Language Day and at the same time I also make a humble request to be proud of your own mother tongue. Speak it at home. Teach it to your children. Try to read, write and preserve it.
It is the collective responsibility of all of us to pass on our language, our civilization, our culture to our new generation. Through our language, through our soil and through our history, we keep our identity alive. Any mother tongue will live only if we keep it alive.
There is a very valuable historical heritage in the picture. This is an ancient Kashmiri manuscript written on the bark of a tree. The Sharda script is the ancient academic script of Kashmir. I have written in considerable detail about the Sharda Peeth before.
This script was especially used in Sanskrit Kashmiri religious and scientific texts and this script is the hallmark of the scientific civilization of Kashmir. In ancient times, when there was no paper, people wrote on the bark of a tree, especially on the Birch tree. This tree grows in the high mountains of the Himalayas and that is why these manuscripts are mostly found in the areas of Kashmir and Tibet.
The letters in the picture are a glimpse of our lost scientific world that our Kashmir region was not just a political region, it was a great scientific civilization where there was a writing system. Geography was written and knowledge was also preserved. Today we are completely cut off from our soil and history and this picture is the biggest proof of this. The people who wrote this were the heirs of knowledge and today we have lost our identity even while living on our own land.
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