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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... meaning " , which in its turn , as fantastic as " unbrella man of the king " . What is worse , if we follow him we have no other alternative than to accept that every family of Mohenjodaro possessed at least one member who was ...
... meaning " , which in its turn , as fantastic as " unbrella man of the king " . What is worse , if we follow him we have no other alternative than to accept that every family of Mohenjodaro possessed at least one member who was ...
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... meaning i.e. one consonant + one vowel or only one semi - vowel . Vowels apart from consonant could not be identified . In the cases of seal Nos . 43 and 73 of the sign list , the writing starts with the compound letter sign - S with ...
... meaning i.e. one consonant + one vowel or only one semi - vowel . Vowels apart from consonant could not be identified . In the cases of seal Nos . 43 and 73 of the sign list , the writing starts with the compound letter sign - S with ...
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... meaning ' expert in water ' . This determinative and the very pro- per name with it are mutually supplementary in the sense " cart - driver— expert in ( carrying ) water " . ( Proper names are proper names - and they lose their image ...
... meaning ' expert in water ' . This determinative and the very pro- per name with it are mutually supplementary in the sense " cart - driver— expert in ( carrying ) water " . ( Proper names are proper names - and they lose their image ...
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