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>> First Words on Gramophone…..
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>> HMV Company had once published a pamphlet giving the history of
>> gramophone record.
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>> Gramophone was invented by Thomas Alva Edison in the 19th century.
>> Edison, who had invented many other gadgets like electric light and
>> the motion picture camera, had become a legend even in his own time.
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>> When He invented the gramophone record, which could record human voice
>> for posterity, he wanted to record the voice of an eminent scholar on
>> his first piece. For that he chose Prof. Max Muller of Germany,
>> another great personality of the 19th century. He wrote to Max Muller
>> saying, “I want to meet you and record your voice. When should I
>> come?”
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>> Max Muller who had great respect for Edison asked him to come on a
>> suitable time when most of the scholars of the Europe would be
>> gathering in England.
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>> Accordingly, Edison took a ship and went to England. He was introduced
>> to the audience. All cheered Edison’s presence. Later at the request
>> of Edison, Max Muller came on the stage and spoke in front of the
>> instrument. Then Edison went back to his laboratory and by afternoon
>> came back with a disc. He played the gramophone disc from his
>> instrument. The audience was thrilled to hear the voice of Max Muller
>> from the instrument. They were glad that voices of great persons like
>> Max Muller could be stored for the benefit of posterity.
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>> After several rounds of applause and congratulations to Thomas Alva
>> Edison, Max Muller came to the stage and addressed the scholars and
>> asked them, “You heard my original voice in the morning. Then you
>> heard the same voice coming out from this instrument in the afternoon.
>> Did you understand what I said in the morning or what you heard this
>> afternoon?”
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>> The audience fell silent because they could not understand the
>> language in which Max Muller had spoken. It was `Greek and Latin’ to
>> them as they say. But had it been Greek or Latin, they would have
>> definitely understood because they were from various parts of Europe.
>> It was in a language which the European scholars had never heard.
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>> Max Muller then explained what he had spoken. He said that the
>> language he spoke was Sanskrit and it was the first sloka of Rig Veda,
>> which says “Agni Meele Purohitam.” This was the first recorded public
>> version on the gramophone plate.
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>> Why did Max Muller choose this? Addressing the audience he said,
>> “Vedas are the oldest text of the human race. And Agni Meele Purohitam
>> is the first verse of Rig Veda. In the most primordial time, when the
>> people did not know how even to cover their bodies and lived by
>> hunting and housed in caves, Indians had attained high civilization
>> and they gave the world universal philosophies in the form of the
>> Vedas.”
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>> Such is the illustrious legacy of our country!
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>> When “Agni Meele Purohitam” was replayed the entire audience stood up
>> in silence as a mark of respect for the ancient Hindu sages.
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>> This verse means:
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>> “Oh Agni, You who gleam in the darkness, To You we come day by day,
>> with devotion and bearing homage. So be of easy access to us, Agni, as
>> a father to his son, abide with us for our well being.
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