The Agamas, though they constitute an equally large body of ancient Sanskrit source
material for a different concept of the same advaita philosophy of Vedanta, have not been
studied by any Orientalist; indeed they have not been studied at all or studiedwas unknown in the south till the
beginning of the twentieth century. It is too much to expect Western Orientalists first of all
to known of the existence of two scripts for Sanskrit, and then to study two scripts for one
language; their study was confined to the devanagari script which was in use over a much
larger area of India and in the north when the
Vedas were reduced to writing and that the new nagari script came into vogue when the
Vedic language.