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Book Deciphering the Indus Script

Download or read book Deciphering the Indus Script written by Asko Parpola and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Indus Script and the    g Veda

Download or read book The Indus Script and the g Veda written by Egbert Richter-Ushanas and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Indus Valley Civilization Script Decoded

Download or read book Indus Valley Civilization Script Decoded written by Prabhunath Hembrom and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book The Indus Script  A Positional Statistical Approach

Download or read book The Indus Script A Positional Statistical Approach written by Michael Korvink and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-02-20 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Indus Script A Well Developed Writing System

Download or read book Indus Script A Well Developed Writing System written by Dr Somesh Chandra Shrivastava and published by BFC Publications. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language of Indus seals was Sanskrit because most of the seals ended on jar sign or fish sign which depicts end of subject words as visargah and end of objects on fish sign as in dwitiya vibhakti. Seals are read from head to tail of the animal on the seal. Prominent city names found on Indus seals are Harapam (Harappa), Kathumaad (Kathmandu, Nepal), Unuaad (Una-Ropar in Himanchal Pradesh), Trisurrah (Trisur, Kerala) Surshenas (Mathura Uttar Pradesh), Ur (Ur, Iraq) and Yerag (Yerevan, Armenian Capital). Agricultural seals contain names sarshan(mustard), mashah (black gram),yavat (grains like barley), rashwan (Garlic) gavreem (turmeric), suran (yam), rasnagah (rubber tree), maarah (thorn apple), sukuvah (lotus) which were sown(Bapikh) by permission of ploughing (krishtemiomah) by king and they gave 1/3rd crop to king (sat-tray) then distributing among themselves (Sat-sheshan). This tax was waivered due to less crop production(unkarsh). Business of beauty parlour was present with three beautifications (trayah shringar) namely hair setting (rachanah), bodypainting and tattooing (patrana) and nail care with nail polish (nakheramae).

Book The Harappan Civilization and Its Writing

Download or read book The Harappan Civilization and Its Writing written by Walter Ashlin Fairservis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1992 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Demonstrates That The Harappan Script Is Well On Its Way To Decipherment.

Book Indus Script Concordance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Devajyoti Sarkar
  • Publisher : Vamra Vaikhanasa Publishing
  • Release : 2023-06-14
  • ISBN : 4991273927
  • Pages : 6520 pages

Download or read book Indus Script Concordance written by Devajyoti Sarkar and published by Vamra Vaikhanasa Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 6520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Indus Script Cipher

Download or read book Indus Script Cipher written by Srinivasan Kalyanaraman and published by Srinivasan Kalyanaraman. This book was released on 2010 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Indus Script

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sudhansu Kumar Ray
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Indus Script written by Sudhansu Kumar Ray and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ABC of Harappan Script and Language

Download or read book ABC of Harappan Script and Language written by Sandiras Segarane Gurunathan and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book may rightly be described as the first-hand information to the world about the Indus Script finally cracked. Unlike the earlier publications on the Enigmatic Indus Script, the present book. For the first time, the logical methodology of Scientific Formal Theory as used by the age-old Geometry and later Theoretical Physics has been successfully adopted in the decipherment of the Indus Script. Computer-aided approach has all along been the order of the day. A software entitled Indus Script Analyzer developed by the author has been extensively used in the examination, analysis, and interpretation of the Indus inscriptions.An exclusive Indus Script Font developed as well by the author and called Sandira-Harappan.ttf has been used for typing Indus Signs. Names of well-known rural deities, city names, and names of professionals have been identified.A Glossary of Deciphered Indus Signs and a Glossary of Interpreted Indus texts are included in the book.

Book DECIPHERMENT OF INDUS SCRIPT FROM ROSETTAS AND CHIMERAS  Part 1

Download or read book DECIPHERMENT OF INDUS SCRIPT FROM ROSETTAS AND CHIMERAS Part 1 written by Senthil Kumar AS and published by senthil kumar a s. This book was released on 2020-06-20 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Illustrated Indus Script Concordance

Download or read book Illustrated Indus Script Concordance written by Devajyoti Sarkar and published by Vamra Vaikhanasa Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 11164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Indus Script

Download or read book The Indus Script written by Iravatham Mahadevan and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ancient Indus Valley

Download or read book The Ancient Indus Valley written by Jane McIntosh and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2008 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Researchers have tentatively reconstructed a model of Indus life from the limited material that remains. Based on important findings from recent surveys and excavations in South Asia and neighboring regions, The Ancient Indus Valley explains what is now known about the Indus civilization's roots in the farming cultures of prehistoric South Asia, as well as the hallmarks of its extraordinary development. It is an eye-opening introduction to a vanished world - and a stirring testament to archaeology's power to recover the past."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Indus Script

    Book Details:
  • Author : B. V. Subbarayappa
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Indus Script written by B. V. Subbarayappa and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Roots of Hinduism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Asko Parpola
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2015-07-15
  • ISBN : 0190226919
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book The Roots of Hinduism written by Asko Parpola and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Indus Script

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bankabehari Chakravorti
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Indus Script written by Bankabehari Chakravorti and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: