Consonants of Bhagavad Gita Text
Consonants
of Bhagavad Gita Text
Context
Sanskrit
language’s alphabet is very scientific. All the consonants are divided in
different classes. The different sounds made by birds is represented by class क
consonants (क, ख, ग, घ, ङ) , amphibians (e.g. frog)
sounds in class ट
(ट, ठ, ड, ढ, ण ),
mammals (e.g. sheep, goat, cows etc.) sounds
by class प
(प, फ, ब, भ, म ) and
all the divine prayers, mantras always contain at least one consonant from
unclassified category (य, र, ऱ, ल, ळ, ऴ, व, श, ष, स, ह,) . Thus,
the alphabet sequence of Sanskrit (and most of the Indian languages) indicates
evolution.
Here, an attempt is made to understand, the usage
of consonants in holy Hindu scripture Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, using Python code.
Method
·
Shrimad
Bhagavad Gita text file is loaded in Python code. This input file is UTF-8
format Unicode text.
· From
the input files, 37 consonants are identified. Their Unicode is 0xE0A495 for क, to 0xE0A4BA for ह.
·
The dictionary data structure is used, to associate
all the consonants with different consonant classes and with different
speakers. For source code, please refer https://github.com/mpanchmatia/BhagavadGitaAlphabet
Some important findings
·
Shrimad
Bhagavad Gita contains total 30271 consonants. The Devanagari (Hindi) script
has total 37 unique Unicodes for consonants.
· Out
of these 30271 constantans, majority of consonants 40.22 % used in Shrimad Bhagavad Gita are
belongs to unclassified category. The least contribution 2.15 % is from class ट. Here is the detail breakup.
Consonant class
|
Consonants
|
Count
|
Percentage
|
Class
क
|
क, ख, ग, घ, ङ
|
2116
|
6.99
%
|
Class
च
|
च, छ, ज, झ, ञ
|
1746
|
5.77
%
|
Class
ट
|
ट, ठ, ड, ढ, ण
|
650
|
2.15
%
|
Class
त
|
त, थ, द, ध, न, ऩ
|
8611
|
28.45
%
|
Class
प
|
प, फ, ब, भ, म
|
4973
|
16.43
%
|
Unclassified
|
य, र, ऱ, ल, ळ, ऴ, व, श, ष, स, ह,
|
12175
|
40.22
%
|
Total
|
30271
|
30271
|
100
%
|
· The least one is झ pronounced only for once by the lord Krishna.
· The most frequent consonants uttered is त, 3931 times and
· Out of these 30271 constantans, majority of consonants 80.37% of consonants are uttered by the lord Krishna and 13.39 % of constantans are uttered by Arjuna. Here is the detail breakup.
· The most frequent consonants uttered is त, 3931 times and
· Out of these 30271 constantans, majority of consonants 80.37% of consonants are uttered by the lord Krishna and 13.39 % of constantans are uttered by Arjuna. Here is the detail breakup.
Speaker
|
Number of consonants
|
Percentage of
consonants
|
Arjuna
|
4052
|
13.39
%
|
the
lord Krishna
|
24330
|
80.37
%
|
Sanjay
|
1730
|
5.72
%
|
Dhritarashtra
|
42
|
0.14
%
|
None
|
117
|
0.39
%
|
Total
|
30271
|
100
%
|
Please refer https://github.com/mpanchmatia/BhagavadGitaAlphabet/blob/master/output.txt for deatil break-up of all consonants uttered by all characters.
Future
Scope
·
The scope of consonants analysis can be further
extended, like, identify patterns that can be corelated to energy movement in
the body and impact on brain from neuroscience perspective.
·
The analysis can be done to other ancient Sanskrit
text, epic, hymns etc.
·
One can target famous text from other languages
also and perform comparative analysis.
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