The Decipherment Of The Indus Script

Author : Asko Parpola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Shikaripur Ranganatha Rao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024851357

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The Decipherment of the Indus Script by Shikaripur Ranganatha Rao Pdf

Author : Walter Ashlin Fairservis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : N. Jha,Navaratna Srinivasa Rajaram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Prabhunath Hembrom
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Malati J. Shendge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : India
ISBN : 8126913355

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Unsealing the Indus Script by Malati J. Shendge Pdf

Author : Deo Prakash Sharma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Indus civilization
ISBN : UOM:39015053172931

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Indus Script on Its Way to Decipherment by Deo Prakash Sharma Pdf

Author Concluded Harappan Script Was Proto Brahmi And Their Languages Were Proto Dravidian Brahui And Laukik Sanskrit. The More Positive Chapter Is On Catalogue Of Indus Seals And Identification Of Harappan Script Sign. Author Contradicted Pre Conceived Idea Of Only Dravidian Language Theory. Author Prefers Name Of South Asian Civilization For This Earliest Civilization Of South Asian Region. Unique Contribution Of Author Is Identification Of Inscribed Double Headed Siva Kalibangan.

Author : Walter Ashlin Fairservis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004676756

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The Harappan Civilization and Its Writing by Walter Ashlin Fairservis Pdf

A description of a methodology by which to decipher the writing of the Harappan civilization. The methodology is then applied and the results set forth in detail. There, results coupled with the author's extensive archaeological knowledge of the Indus Civilization creates a picture of ancient South Asian life much of which in content is unique.

Author : Arlene R. Zide,Kamil V. Zvelebil
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110800258

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The Soviet Decipherment of the Indus Valley Script by Arlene R. Zide,Kamil V. Zvelebil Pdf

Author : Egbert Richter-Ushanas
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Srinivasan Kalyanaraman
Publisher : Srinivasan Kalyanaraman
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Indus River Valley
ISBN : LCCN:unk83008176

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The Soviet Decipherment of the Indus Valley Script by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gregory L. Possehl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Rama Sarker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 8185616701

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Indus Script & It's Language by Rama Sarker Pdf

This Book Being The First Critical Assessment Of All Significant Attempts At Decipherment Of The Indus Script And Technicalities Involved In The Models, Explains How A Breakthrough In Decipherment Has Been Achieved As A Sequel To Scientific Analysis. It Has Highlighted The Progress Made In Decoding The Indus People. The Structural Analysis Of The Indus Script Not Only Meets This Desideratum But Also Throws New Light On The Different Approaches To The Problems. It Has Convincingly Demonstrated That The Failure By Most Scholars To Carry The Structural Analysis Of All The Compound Signs In The Indus Script To Its Logical Conclusion And A-Priori Assumptions Of A Language Of Their Choice Were The Stumbling Block. It Has Cleared The Mystery Of The So-Called Undecipherable Script And Brought Together All The Ramifications Of Analysis And Interpretation By Various Scholars And Examined Objectively. The Stages Of Development In Identification Of Basic Signs Of The Dug Script Has Been Explained Vividly Kith Adequate Analytical Charts And Examples And The Languages And The Languages As Old Indo-Aryan In Compariosn With Those Of A Known Script. It Has Rendered Signal Service To The Scholarly World By Providing Basic Data Needed For Understanding The Intricacies Of A Mixed Writing Of Bygone Days.

Author : Egbert Richter-Ushanas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3924942153

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The Symbolic Conception of the Indus Script by Egbert Richter-Ushanas Pdf