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As a point of information only.To maintain the Gurmukhi script in its original form would require that all the search engines versions of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, gutkas, and similar texts, such as Mahan Kosh and Guru Granth Darpan, be scrapped. Or they would have to be republished - a costly venture. The purest form of Gurmukhi is the larevaar script, by which all the words are continuous. The use of larevaar was abandoned even by SGPC sometime in the 1960's in favor of what we now read, the pad ched script, where words are given separately. The point of the change was to make the Shabad easier to read, at that time for those Punjabis who had been schooled in the pad ched using modern print materials. That change from larevaar to pad ched was also not without controversy. Today we read pad ched I assume because making the shabad of the gurus more accessible was an important thing to do.The pic attached to this comment shows the same vaar in pad ched and larevaar.
As a point of information only.
To maintain the Gurmukhi script in its original form would require that all the search engines versions of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, gutkas, and similar texts, such as Mahan Kosh and Guru Granth Darpan, be scrapped. Or they would have to be republished - a costly venture. The purest form of Gurmukhi is the larevaar script, by which all the words are continuous. The use of larevaar was abandoned even by SGPC sometime in the 1960's in favor of what we now read, the pad ched script, where words are given separately. The point of the change was to make the Shabad easier to read, at that time for those Punjabis who had been schooled in the pad ched using modern print materials. That change from larevaar to pad ched was also not without controversy. Today we read pad ched I assume because making the shabad of the gurus more accessible was an important thing to do.
The pic attached to this comment shows the same vaar in pad ched and larevaar.
