जड और चेतन (वैदिक)

Question / प्रश्न  53.

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How the ancient-most scriptures were written?

प्राचीनतम शास्त्र किस प्रकार से लिखे गए थे?

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 Looking for an answer to the question :

"In what form - the prose or the verse - originally the Hebrew Scriptures were written?"

In the answer I learnt whether written either in the verse or prose form, they followed the ab-jad style. 

This means a form where there were no letters other than consonants to write a word and the same letter was used to write a vowel and was treated as vowel according to the convention.

For example the letter "य" that was "य" as a consonant in the Sanskrit was also used as "इ / ई"  as a vowel.

This grammatical provision in Sanskrit was called गुण / संप्रसारण (?).

इको यण् अचि 

Might be the sUtra justifying and related to this. 

This same rule could be seen applicable of the structure followed in the Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and even in languages while structuring many of them either  written in the L To R,  or the R To L way.

Understanding this convention, it may be observed that many scripts might have been evolved likewise in the beginning.

Not only this, another example may be of the same  "य" "y" that became "j" and "i".

In the Arabic maybe this is what we find in Urdu as ز,  ی, .

We can see how "i" might be turned into "j" or vice-versa., that may explain why this resemblance is not just coincidence.

About Hebrew :

However, this style was known as the :

ab-jad form of the script where there were no different symbols for vowels and consonants.

"Ab-jad" or the "ab-jada" is cognate of the Sanskrit word "अव-जड", where the vowels are the स्वर, and the consonants are व्यञ्जन.

According to the वैदिक Vedika thought, all the vowels / स्वर together constitute the 12 आदित्य -- Aditya, or the 12 sons of Goddess of speech, - वाग्देवी  devI Aditi - the voice / the preciding conscious divine spirit of phonetics, thereby a चेतन देवता - conscious / sentient chetana devatA, while the consonants / व्यञ्जन are the secondary material forms.

A vowel letter / phoneme / sound could be pronounced independently, however a consonant has to be supported always and inevitably by a vowel.

That could be said as how this word : - "ab-jad" might have been cognate of the Sanskrit word "अव-जड".

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