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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... origin of alphabets in India , Questions on Rosette and the necessity of presumption , questions on similar signs found observe and reverse , questions on animal pictures in seals , conclud- ing remarks . A Select Bibliography Plates 40 ...
... origin of alphabets in India , Questions on Rosette and the necessity of presumption , questions on similar signs found observe and reverse , questions on animal pictures in seals , conclud- ing remarks . A Select Bibliography Plates 40 ...
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... origin than of Sumerian one . But we must not accept any of the theories on consideration that 2.6 per cent similarity is not sufficient to prove the origin of a script , though by ingenious device any sign of any language can be ...
... origin than of Sumerian one . But we must not accept any of the theories on consideration that 2.6 per cent similarity is not sufficient to prove the origin of a script , though by ingenious device any sign of any language can be ...
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... origin of Alphabets in India : Some opine that there is no sound proof of Indian system of writing before 7th or 8th century B. C. , so the scripts of Indus valley must have foreign scripts for their origin . In reply to this I may ...
... origin of Alphabets in India : Some opine that there is no sound proof of Indian system of writing before 7th or 8th century B. C. , so the scripts of Indus valley must have foreign scripts for their origin . In reply to this I may ...
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