Significance of Scribe
Synonyms: Writer, Author, Journalist, Recorder, Chronicler, Copyist, Secretary
In Dutch: Schrijver; In Finnish: Kirjuri; In Spanish: Escriba; In German: Schreiber
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Hindu concept of 'Scribe'
In Hinduism, a Scribe signifies individuals tasked with writing and documenting information, playing a crucial role in preserving texts, scriptures, and cultural knowledge essential to the religion's tradition and history.
From: Chaitanya Bhagavata
(1) Denotes the individuals responsible for writing, recording, or documenting information.[1]
The concept of Scribe in local and regional sources
Scribe refers to individuals who contribute to data production in tables, authors of manuscripts with documented dates, researchers determining historical sites, and those who note numerical symbols while sometimes making spelling errors.
From: History of Science in South Asia
(1) Scribe is the person who wrote the manuscript, and if the manuscript was written as a single unified work, then the date of the written zeros is the date of the scribe, which is the date of the latest of the folia.[2] (2) The text indicates that many scribes have included the symbolic representation of numbers after they have been stated in bhutasankhya notation, and they also commonly misspell words.[3] (3) Scribes play a role in producing or incorporating additional table data, including the selection of tables and potentially adding new content to existing ones.[4]
From: Folklore of the Santal Parganas
(1) The scribes are the individuals who studied the books to determine the appropriate location for Raja Harichand's royal fort.[5]