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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... Kavyatirtha forwards a theory that the seals were used as currency notes in connection with commerce and belonged to different countries , the pictures on them being the symbols of the states represented . He claims to have read as many ...
... Kavyatirtha forwards a theory that the seals were used as currency notes in connection with commerce and belonged to different countries , the pictures on them being the symbols of the states represented . He claims to have read as many ...
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... reading the script from the right hand side . On the other hand Waddell , Prannath , Mahendra Kavyatirtha , B. M. Barua , Hrozny , Sankarananda and K. N. Sastri read from the other side i.e.- from the left hand . We have another third ...
... reading the script from the right hand side . On the other hand Waddell , Prannath , Mahendra Kavyatirtha , B. M. Barua , Hrozny , Sankarananda and K. N. Sastri read from the other side i.e.- from the left hand . We have another third ...
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New Light Bankabehari Chakravorti. amulets . Prannath and so also R. M. Nath read only the names of gods , goddesses and kings inscribed in them . M. Kavyatirtha considers them as currency notes , while Sankarnanada reads the names of ...
New Light Bankabehari Chakravorti. amulets . Prannath and so also R. M. Nath read only the names of gods , goddesses and kings inscribed in them . M. Kavyatirtha considers them as currency notes , while Sankarnanada reads the names of ...
Contents
Origin of Problem | 11 |
Principles of Decipherment | 17 |
How I could find the valuation | 23 |
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Alexander Cunningham Ancient India Aryan migration assign Brahmanas Brahmi Alphabet Brahmi Scripts C. J. Gadd compound letter consider CVII CVIII Seal decipherment direction of writing Dravidian Egyptian engravers favour Harappa Hence Heras hieroglyphs Hittite Hrozny Indo-Aryan Language Indus civilization Indus script Indus Valley inscriptions interpretation of Seals Jacobi K. N. Dikshit Kavyatirtha Seal Kshatriyas Kumara kuririn Langdon Maxmuller MIC CIX Seal MIC CVI MIC CVIII MIC plate CVI MIC Sign millennium B. C. MK Seal Mohenjodaro non-Aryan opines 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 Sankarananda Sanskrit languages scholars Seal 42 Seal 77 Seals Deciphered sign list Signs sign Manual sound Sumerian syllabic theory three signs Tilok tion unicorn Vaisyas valuation variations Vats Vedas Vedic vide seal vowel Waddell word Yudhisthira