Indus Script Concordance

Author : Devajyoti Sarkar
Publisher : Vamra Vaikhanasa Publishing
Page : 6520 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9784991273926

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Indus Script Concordance by Devajyoti Sarkar Pdf

The Indus civilization was one of the earliest civilizations of the ancient world. At its peak, it was more than ten times larger than Egypt and Mesopotamia combined and three times their population. Yet it remains a riddle of prehistory. Its script is the last great script to remain undeciphered. This concordance is an attempt to make the corpus of Indus inscriptions organized and searchable in a digital format. It covers 3,649 objects with 5,037 inscriptions from across 40 Indus sites. At more than 10,000 pages, it is a comprehensive reference for the domain. It allows the reader to efficiently search and navigate the corpus by location, object types, and writing direction. It is the only resource that allows you to search the collection by letters, words, and patronymics. In order to help the first-time reader, the Introduction provides a background of the Indus civilization and its script. It presents a unique analysis of the typography of the Indus seals and compares it to modern fonts. It systematically analyzes the script down into constituent forms and links to resources for a Unicode encoding and an open-source font for the script. The book itself serves as an example of those resources. This concordance is based on a complete decipherment of the Indus script that I will publish separately. It leverages that to identify characters and words and present a consistent and complete coverage of the inscriptions.

Author : Devajyoti Sarkar
Publisher : Vamra Vaikhanasa Publishing
Page : 11164 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9784991273919

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Illustrated Indus Script Concordance by Devajyoti Sarkar Pdf

The Indus civilization was one of the earliest civilizations of the ancient world. At its peak, it was more than ten times larger than Egypt and Mesopotamia combined and three times their population. Yet it remains a riddle of prehistory. Its script is the last great script to remain undeciphered. This illustrated concordance attempts to make the corpus of Indus inscriptions organized and searchable in a digital format. It covers 3,649 objects with 5,037 inscriptions from across 40 Indus sites. At more than 10,000 pages, it aims to be a comprehensive reference for the domain. The drawings carved into the seals encode key identity and context information and represent iconic and culturally significant symbols. This illustrated concordance not only represents the full gamut of visual information available but also seamlessly integrates it into the overall search experience. It allows the reader to efficiently search and navigate the corpus by location and object types, by animals and other illustrations, by facing and writing directions. It is the only resource that indexes the collection by letters, words, and patronymics. In order to help the first-time reader, the Introduction provides a background of the Indus civilization and its script. It presents a unique analysis of the typography of the Indus seals and compares it to modern fonts. It systematically analyzes the script down into constituent forms and links to resources for Unicode encoding and an open-source font for the script. The book itself serves as a test case for those resources. This concordance is based on a complete decipherment of the Indus script that I will publish separately. It leverages that to identify characters and words and present a consistent and complete coverage of the inscriptions.

Author : Kimmo Koskenniemi,Asko Parpola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Indus script
ISBN : 9514528220

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A Concordance to the Texts in the Indus Script by Kimmo Koskenniemi,Asko Parpola Pdf

Author : Iravatham Mahadevan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : UOM:39015008424346

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The Indus Script by Iravatham Mahadevan Pdf

Author : Sandira Segaran
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1502332434

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Indus Script Analysis by Sandira Segaran Pdf

After ninety years of research, the Indus Script still remains un-deciphered. It is because of non-discovery of any bilingual or multi-lingual inscriptions like Rosetta Stone in the case of Egyptian hieroglyphics. This handicap is being slowly overcome by the analytical methods that can be used in the computational research of the Indus Script. I have recently developed a software program to analyse the signs and inscriptions of Indus Script. The program helps one to formulate concordance tables for any pre-assigned combination of signs. Thousands of such concordance tables can be generated by the computer program on the fly. Some of such tables are offered to the other research scholars in several collections. This is the third collection in the series.

Author : Sandira Segaran
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1502324121

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Indus Script Analysis: Concordance Tables Volume II by Sandira Segaran Pdf

After ninety years of research, the Indus Script still remains un-deciphered. It is because of non-discovery of any bilingual or multi-lingual inscriptions like Rosetta Stone in the case of Egyptian hieroglyphics. This handicap is being slowly overcome by the analytical methods that can be used in the computational research of the Indus Script. I have recently developed a software program to analyse the signs and inscriptions of Indus Script. The program helps one to formulate concordance tables for any pre-assigned combination of signs. Thousands of such concordance tables can be generated by the computer program on the fly. Some of such tables are offered to the other research scholars in several collections. This is the second collection in the series.

Author : Sandira Segaran
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1501087487

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Indus Script Analysis: Concordance Tables by Sandira Segaran Pdf

After ninety years of research, the Indus Script still remains un-deciphered. It is because of non-discovery of any bilingual or multi-lingual inscriptions like Rosetta Stone in the case of Egyptian hieroglyphics. This handicap is being slowly overcome by the analytical methods that can be used in the computational research of the Indus Script. I have recently developed a software program to analyse the signs and inscriptions of Indus Script. The program helps one to formulate concordance tables for any pre-assigned combination of signs. Thousands of such concordance tables can be generated by the computer program on the fly. Some of such tables are offered to the other research scholars in several collections. This is the first collection in the series.

Author : Michael Korvink
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780615182391

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The Indus Script: A Positional-Statistical Approach by Michael Korvink Pdf

Since the discovery of the Indus Civilization, the meaning of the enigmatic Indus script remains hidden in its four hundred characters. While many would-be-decipherers have attempted to unravel its meaning with the aid of a presumed underlying language, none of these attempts has proven successful. In response, the approach taken in this work does not preclude an underlying language, but offers an alternate approach where the positional patterns of the Indus signs are investigated in an attempt to segment the character strings. Michael Korvink is a former instructor of International Studies at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and now works in the private sector.

Author : Egbert Richter-Ushanas
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Indus script
ISBN : 8120814053

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The Indus Script and the Ṛg-Veda by Egbert Richter-Ushanas Pdf

The deciphering of the Indus script has met with suspicion and is exposed to ridicule even. Many people are nowadays of the opinion that the Indus script is altogether indecipherable, if not a bilingual of considerable size turns up. The approach to a decipherment presented in this volume makes avail of a bilingual, too, but its masterkey is the discovering of the symbolic connection of the Indus signs with the metaphoric language of the Rg-Veda. Nearly 200 inscriptions, among them the longest and those with the most interesting motifs, have been decoded here by setting them syllable for syllable in relation to Rg-Vedic verses. The results that were gained by this method for the pictographic values of the Indus signs are surprising and far beyond the possibilities of the most daring phantasy. At the same time many problems of the Rg-Veda could be solved or new insights be won.

Author : Senthil Kumar AS
Publisher : senthil kumar a s
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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DECIPHERMENT OF INDUS SCRIPT FROM ROSETTAS AND CHIMERAS, Part 1 by Senthil Kumar AS Pdf

Why and how is Indus script in Tamil? Starting from the author's ground breaking work "Read Indussian"(2012), more undeniable evidences have come up in support of the Tamil scripts of Indus valley civilization. Rosetta like seals which are the ultimate mode of proving an ancient language have been elucidated in this book with gratitude to I.Mahadevan and A.Parpola for the picture references from their Concordances, Texts and Tabulations of Indus scripts.

Author : Raj Rajagopalan
Publisher : Children's Book Trust
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8170116376

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The Secrets of Indus Valley by Raj Rajagopalan Pdf

Author : Shikaripur Ranganatha Rao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024851357

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The Decipherment of the Indus Script by Shikaripur Ranganatha Rao Pdf

Author : Srinivasan Kalyanaraman
Publisher : Srinivasan Kalyanaraman
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Jane R. McIntosh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781576079089

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The Ancient Indus Valley by Jane R. McIntosh Pdf

This work is a revealing study of the enigmatic Indus civilization and how a rich repertoire of archaeological tools is being used to probe its puzzles. The Ancient Indus Valley: New Perspectives takes readers back to a civilization as complex as its contemporaries in Mesopotamia and Egypt, one that covered a far larger region, yet lasted a much briefer time (less than a millennium) and left few visible traces. Researchers have tentatively reconstructed a model of Indus life based on limited material remains and despite its virtually indecipherable written record. This volume describes what is known about the roots of Indus civilization in farming culture, as well as its far-flung trading network, sophisticated crafts and architecture, and surprisingly war-free way of life. Readers will get a glimpse of both a remarkable piece of the past and the extraordinary methods that have brought it back to life.

Author : Peter T. Daniels,William Bright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195079937

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The World's Writing Systems by Peter T. Daniels,William Bright Pdf

Ranging from cuneiform to shorthand, from archaic Greek to modern Chinese, from Old Persian to modern Cherokee, this is the only available work in English to cover all of the world's writing systems from ancient times to the present. Describing scores of scripts in use now or in the past around the world, this unusually comprehensive reference offers a detailed exploration of the history and typology of writing systems. More than eighty articles by scholars from over a dozen countries explain and document how a vast array of writing systems work--how alphabets, ideograms, pictographs, and hieroglyphics convey meaning in graphic form. The work is organized in thirteen parts, each dealing with a particular group of writing systems defined historically, geographically, or conceptually. Arranged according to the chronological development of writing systems and their historical relationships within geographical areas, the scripts are divided into the following sections: the ancient Near East, East Asia, Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Additional parts address the ongoing process of decipherment of ancient writing systems; the adaptation of traditional scripts to new languages; new scripts invented in modern times; and graphic symbols for numerical, music, and movement notation. Each part begins with an introductory article providing the social and cultural context in which the group of writing systems was developed. Articles on individual scripts detail the historical origin of the writing system, its structure (with tables showing the forms of the written symbols), and its relationship to the phonology of the corresponding spoken language. Each writing system is illustrated by a passage of text, and accompanied by a romanized version, a phonetic transcription, and a modern English translation. A bibliography suggesting further reading concludes each entry. Matched by no other work in English, The World's Writing Systems is the only comprehensive resource covering every major writing system. Unparalleled in its scope and unique in its coverage of the way scripts relate to the languages they represent, this is a resource that anyone with an interest in language will want to own, and one that should be a part of every library's reference collection.