Decipherment of Indus Script: New LightPresentation of the thesis, based on a study of the seals found in Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, that the language of the Indus Valley civilization is a dialect of the Indo-European group. |
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... present time we have been constrained to believe that the area of Indus civilization was much larger than that of Sumer or Egypt , the distance between the two principal centres of civilization viz . , Mohenjodaro and Harappa being as ...
... present time we have been constrained to believe that the area of Indus civilization was much larger than that of Sumer or Egypt , the distance between the two principal centres of civilization viz . , Mohenjodaro and Harappa being as ...
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... present we may not have to accept more than one value for the same sign . The peculiarity of the Indian Script is that a sign does not admit of two valuations , though for the same valuation there may be more than one sign . In Bengali ...
... present we may not have to accept more than one value for the same sign . The peculiarity of the Indian Script is that a sign does not admit of two valuations , though for the same valuation there may be more than one sign . In Bengali ...
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... present we find a differ- ence in spelling between those of the learned class and those of the half- literate artificers or craftsmen . In reading the scripts we remember it . are to Another point we are to consider , with the stock of ...
... present we find a differ- ence in spelling between those of the learned class and those of the half- literate artificers or craftsmen . In reading the scripts we remember it . are to Another point we are to consider , with the stock of ...
Contents
Origin of Problem | 11 |
Principles of Decipherment | 17 |
How I could find the valuation | 23 |
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13th cent Alexander Cunningham Aryan Aryan migration assuming sign Brahmi Alphabet Brahmi Scripts C. J. Gadd compound letter considered CVII CVIII Seal decipherment direction of writing Dravidian Egyptian engravers Excavations Harappa Hence Heras hieroglyphs Hittite Hrozny Indo-Aryan Language Indus civilization Indus Script Indus Valley inscriptions interpretation of Seals Jacobi K. N. Dikshit Kavyatirtha reads Kumara kuririn Langdon language Mahabharata Maxmuller MIC CIX Seal MIC CVI MIC CVIII MIC plate CVI MIC Sign millennium B. C. MK Seal Mohenjodaro non-Aryan opinion origin philological phonetic value plate CIX plate CVI Seal plate CVIII Pre-Aryans presumption Problem Prof pronunciation proper names found Putra ra/r race Rigveda Rosetta stone S. K. Roy Sankarananda Sanskrit scholars Seal 42 Seal 77 Seals Deciphered sign list sign list Signs sign Manual sound Sumerian syllabic theory three signs Tilok tion unicorn valuation variations Vats Vedas Vedic vowel Waddell word Yudhisthira