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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... pronunciation ( broken pronunciations , of course , excepted ) . Can we not , then , imagine that they might have been used in still earlier periods comprising a few centuries and penetrated into the heart of Indus civilization ? The ...
... pronunciation ( broken pronunciations , of course , excepted ) . Can we not , then , imagine that they might have been used in still earlier periods comprising a few centuries and penetrated into the heart of Indus civilization ? The ...
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... pronunciation at a time but at present the signs are retained but the dis- tinctions among the pronunciations have been lost . Again in English ' ka ' may be represented by k ( as in king ) , by c ( as in call ) or by ch ( as in monarch ) ...
... pronunciation at a time but at present the signs are retained but the dis- tinctions among the pronunciations have been lost . Again in English ' ka ' may be represented by k ( as in king ) , by c ( as in call ) or by ch ( as in monarch ) ...
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... pronunciation , but in course of time those differences have been lost ( as in Bengali ' sa ' or as in English k , c , and ch to foreign ears ) . Here before I have discussed that the proper names found by evalua- tion are in confirmity ...
... pronunciation , but in course of time those differences have been lost ( as in Bengali ' sa ' or as in English k , c , and ch to foreign ears ) . Here before I have discussed that the proper names found by evalua- tion are in confirmity ...
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