Deciphering The Indus Script

Author : Asko Parpola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521795664

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Deciphering the Indus Script by Asko Parpola Pdf

Of the writing systems of the ancient world which still await deciphering, the Indus script is the most important. It developed in the Indus or Harappan Civilization, which flourished c. 2500-1900 BC in and around modern Pakistan, collapsing before the earliest historical records of South Asia were composed. Nearly 4,000 samples of the writing survive, mainly on stamp seals and amulets, but no translations. Professor Parpola is the chief editor of the Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions. His ideas about the script, the linguistic affinity of the Harappan language, and the nature of the Indus religion are informed by a remarkable command of Aryan, Dravidian, and Mesopotamian sources, archaeological materials, and linguistic methodology. His fascinating study confirms that the Indus script was logo-syllabic, and that the Indus language belonged to the Dravidian family.

Author : Asko Parpola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521430798

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Deciphering the Indus Script by Asko Parpola Pdf

Of the writing systems of the ancient world which still await deciphering, the Indus script is the most important. It developed in the Indus or Harappan Civilization, which flourished c. 2500-1900 BC in and around modern Pakistan, collapsing before the earliest historical records of South Asia were composed. Nearly 4,000 samples of the writing survive, mainly on stamp seals and amulets, but no translations. Professor Parpola is the chief editor of the Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions. His ideas about the script, the linguistic affinity of the Harappan language, and the nature of the Indus religion are informed by a remarkable command of Aryan, Dravidian, and Mesopotamian sources, archaeological materials, and linguistic methodology. His fascinating study confirms that the Indus script was logo-syllabic, and that the Indus language belonged to the Dravidian family.

Author : Prabhunath Hembrom
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781646787296

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Indus Valley Civilization Script Decoded by Prabhunath Hembrom Pdf

Scientists discover Y-DNA haplogroups O2a and mt-DNA haplogroup M4a in the Rakhigarhi ancient DNA. These haplogroups are associated with the speakers of Austro-Asiatic languages such as Mundari, Santali and Khasi. These haplogroups and related languages are also present in Southeast Asia. In India, speakers of these languages are currently found mostly in Central and East India. Even though a prominent philologist of Harvard University, Mr. Michael Witzel, has argued the case for a language close to Munda (which he calls para-Mundari) being one of the languages of the erstwhile Indus Valley, a finding of this nature will come as a surprise to most others. So if the genetics do find haplogroups O and M4a in Rakhigarhi, some of our current understanding of Indian history may have to be revised. Tony Joseph in The Hindu, December 23, 2017

Author : N. Jha,Navaratna Srinivasa Rajaram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Harappa Site (Pakistan)
ISBN : UOM:39015055475183

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The Deciphered Indus Script by N. Jha,Navaratna Srinivasa Rajaram Pdf

The present volume is devoted to the study of the Indus script and its decipherment. It offers a methodology for reading the Indus script by combining paleography with ancient literary accounts and Vedic grammar.These illustrate the methodology and also help shed new light on the Harappans and their connections with the Vedic Civilization.The language of the seals is Vedic Sanskrit,with a significant number of them containing words and phrases traceable to the ancient Vedic glossary Nigha, compiled from still earlier sources by Yaska.

Author : Bryan K. Wells
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784910471

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The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Indus Writing by Bryan K. Wells Pdf

A detailed examination of the Indus script. It presents new analysis based on an expansive text corpus using revolutionary analytical techniques developed specifically for the purpose of deciphering the Indus script.

Author : Dhanpat Singh Dhania
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Indus script
ISBN : 8181500865

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Deciphering Indus Script by Dhanpat Singh Dhania Pdf

Author : Gregory L. Possehl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015038593987

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Indus Age by Gregory L. Possehl Pdf

Indus Age: The Writing System presents a detailed typology of the Harappan pictographic script, discusses the place of writing in Harappan culture, and speculates on the possible survival of the script in later South Asian writing systems. The failure to decipher the writing system of the Harappan civilization has not been for lack of trying. Possehl reviews over forty publications on the script, many of which attempt to decipher it. Some of these attempts, such as Flinders Petrie's Reading the Script as Egyptian Hieroglyphics, are fascinating but far-fetched. Others, for example the Russian Team's Computers and the Indus Script, are more plausible. However, no reading of the Indus script can be considered correct because there is no independent test by which to check its accuracy. Until there is, Possehl contends, the script will remain undeciphered.

Author : Senthil Kumar AS
Publisher : Amarabharathi Publications & Booksellers, Tiruvannamalai
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789380733029

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Read Indussian by Senthil Kumar AS Pdf

The most apt deciphering of Indus valley civilization script with the help of 43 bilingual-like inscriptions -from Dholavira to the bulls and chimera of Harappan seals. Old Tamil language is here proved beyond doubts to be the lingua franca of the Indus civilization people.

Author : M. V. N. Krishna Rao
Publisher : Delhi : Agam
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Indus script
ISBN : UOM:39015019386609

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Indus Script Deciphered by M. V. N. Krishna Rao Pdf

Author : Asko Parpola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190226930

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The Roots of Hinduism by Asko Parpola Pdf

Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus civilization of the third millennium BCE, which left behind exquisitely carved seals and thousands of short inscriptions in a long-forgotten pictographic script. Discovered in the valley of the Indus River in the early 1920s, the Indus civilization had a population estimated at one million people, in more than 1000 settlements, several of which were cities of some 50,000 inhabitants. With an area of nearly a million square kilometers, the Indus civilization was more extensive than the contemporaneous urban cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Yet, after almost a century of excavation and research the Indus civilization remains little understood. How might we decipher the Indus inscriptions? What language did the Indus people speak? What deities did they worship? Asko Parpola has spent fifty years researching the roots of Hinduism to answer these fundamental questions, which have been debated with increasing animosity since the rise of Hindu nationalist politics in the 1980s. In this pioneering book, he traces the archaeological route of the Indo-Iranian languages from the Aryan homeland north of the Black Sea to Central, West, and South Asia. His new ideas on the formation of the Vedic literature and rites and the great Hindu epics hinge on the profound impact that the invention of the horse-drawn chariot had on Indo-Aryan religion. Parpola's comprehensive assessment of the Indus language and religion is based on all available textual, linguistic and archaeological evidence, including West Asian sources and the Indus script. The results affirm cultural and religious continuity to the present day and, among many other things, shed new light on the prehistory of the key Hindu goddess Durga and her Tantric cult.

Author : Walter Ashlin Fairservis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Harappa Site (Pakistan)
ISBN : 8120404912

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The Harappan Civilization and Its Writing by Walter Ashlin Fairservis Pdf

The Book Demonstrates That The Harappan Script Is Well On Its Way To Decipherment.

Author : Srinivasan Kalyanaraman
Publisher : Srinivasan Kalyanaraman
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780982897102

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Indus Script Cipher by Srinivasan Kalyanaraman Pdf

This is a path-breaking work as significant as the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs by Champollion. For nearly130 years, the Indus script has remained a challenging enigma to scholars of languages, writing systems and civilization studies. The script was invented and used over an extensive area of what is called the Indus or Sindhu-Sarasvati civilization. Over 2000 or 80% of archaeological sites are found on the Sarasvati River basin, a river adored in a very old human document called the Rigveda and which dried up due to tectonic and resulting river migration causes. In 1822, history was made when Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered by Jean-Francois Champollion from parts of the Rosetta Stone. Champollion showed that the Egyptian writing system, c.3000 BCE was a combination of phonetic and ideographic glyphs. The Rosetta Stone is dated196 BCE and had a decree in three versions: one in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, one in the Egyptian demotic script, and one in ancient Greek. Since alphabets of ancient Greek were known, Champollion used the trilingual inscription to validate his historic decipherment. Indus Script Cipher makes history recording hundreds of hieroglyphs of India. Absence of a Rosetta Stone which has been the principal impediment in validating any decryption of Indus script cipher is thus overcome. Further validation comes from evidences of the historical periods in India from c. 600 BCE showing continued use of Indus script hieroglyphs which evolved from c. 3300 BCE. This book details a decipherment.of the Indus script using the same rebus method used by Champollion to read ancient phonetic hieroglyphs of Indiat. By demonstrating an Indian linguistic area of cultural and language contacts and history of language changes, this is a landmark contribution to civilization studies of the world and will promote efforts to rewrite the ancient socio-cultural and economic history of a billion people in India and neighboring regions.

Author : Rajat K Pal
Publisher : Chirayata
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Reading the Indus- Sarasvati Script by Rajat K Pal Pdf

In this book writer used a different technique to decipher Indus script via phonetic values of basic Indus signs, vowel diacritics ,letters used to mention quantity (number, volume and weight) etc. He has gone through the pottery inscriptions first and tablets thereafter and then discussed about the names and other words found in Indus seals and inscribed on other items. Out of 4000 inscriptions found so far , of which 2000 are still readable, Rajat was able to read 1,296 Sarasvati Scripts, it took 15 years. Now all his methods and the journey to decipher the Script has been put into this book.

Author : Shikaripur Ranganatha Rao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024851357

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The Decipherment of the Indus Script by Shikaripur Ranganatha Rao Pdf

Author : S. M. Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : India
ISBN : 1450770614

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Indus Script Dictionary by S. M. Sullivan Pdf