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  • Devanagari writing in the Bhagavata Purana
    writing
    / The functions of writing

    The Canadian economist Harold Innis classified writing systems into two basic types: those that bind through time, exemplified by Egyptian hieroglyphics carved in stone and Akkadian cuneiform incised in clay, and those that bind across space, exemplified by the portable papyri used by the Romans. Writing used to…

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    The Canadian economist Harold Innis classified writing systems into two basic types: those that bind through time, exemplified by Egyptian hieroglyphics carved in stone and Akkadian cuneiform incised in clay, and those that bind across space, exemplified by the portable papyri used by the Romans. Writing used to…

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