THE FATHER OF SORA SCRIFT SORAN SOMPENG
Orissa is the wonderland of marvelous art , craft, architecture, culture, tradition , language and also many great personalities . A number of poets, philosopher and social thinkers took birth in this holy lead and passed away leaving their great deeds have made them immortal. Sora pandit , Mangai Gomango , the inventor of the sora script is one of those great personalities.
There are sixth two categories of scheduled Tribes living in different parts of Orissa. Among them the sabar or sora is one who live in each and every comer of Orissa. But they live in large numbers in the Gajapathi district and Gunupur Sub – Division of Rayagada district . They have their own language called ‘Sora’ which come under the “Austro Asiatic language” family . The script of this language “Soran Sompeng” was invented in the year 1936. Being inspired by religious and nationalistic feelings Mangai Gomango , a literate of the soura community went on meditation for 21 days in forest adjoining his village Marichaguda and saw a script in his dream as a gift to sabaras. Their legendary “Daru devata” reappeared in the from of “Akshara Brahma” . The letters of Akshara Brahma symbolize 24 important Gods of their religion which forms the ‘ Sora script’ “ Soran Sompeng ”. It means the phonetic box of the soura . The stone on which the script was first visible has become a place of pilgrimage for the sora . In the idol of Akhyara Brahma , twenty four syllables., numbers upto twele and a symbol of wisdom are arranged in the shape of Oriya letter “Om” . All these letters were kept hidden inside a temple made of cement. There are three
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