The 42 death anniversary of educationist, writer and philologist Dr Muhammad Shahidullah will be observed today.
Shahidullah, who showed that Bangla originated from Gaudi or Magdhi Prakrit, not from Sanskrit, died on July 13, 1969 in Dhaka.
Different literary and cultural organisations have chalked out elaborate programmes to mark the day.
The Bangla Academy organises a commemoration ceremony on the occasion in its seminar room at 4:00pm today.
Shahidullah was the first to note that Charyapada was completely written in Bangla and to highlight the religious philosophy of the work.
He learnt Urdu, Persian and Arabic at home and Sanskrit in school. He went to Europe for higher studies in 1926, and learnt Vedic Sanskrit, Buddhist Sanskrit, comparative philology, and Tibetan and ancient Persian language at the University of Paris, and ancient Khotni, ancient Vedic Sanskrit and Prakrit at Freiburg University in Germany.
Source : New Age
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