Hey Bob
I'm making this up here, but classical Sanskrit too, like Greek and Latin, was an inflected language, was highly agglutinative (like German?) and therefor word order, and punctuation, were not critically important for meaning.
In modern day Hindi, however, most Roman punctuation is used, though in place of a full stop (or period), Hindi usually sticks to the traditional vertical line '|'
Other Northern Indian languages (of the Indo-European family) have, to a greater or lesser degree, adopted punctuation.
Sanskrit, in its earliest days, was almost invariably written (or rather composed, orally) in verse (the shloka, allegedly invented by Valmiki so as to enable him to tell the tale of the Ramayana), so with the lines well end-stopped, meaning was relatively clear without the need for elaborate punctuation.
That's about the limit of my knowledge (and I've made up most of it)
cheer
the sunshine warrior
