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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... writing the writers or engravers could use more than one sign to represent a particular sound . Thus in " Sumero - Baby- lonian sign list " ( --Marcer S. A. B. , Columbia University Press - 1918 ) , we find as many as 8 signs for Ka , 7 ...
... writing the writers or engravers could use more than one sign to represent a particular sound . Thus in " Sumero - Baby- lonian sign list " ( --Marcer S. A. B. , Columbia University Press - 1918 ) , we find as many as 8 signs for Ka , 7 ...
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... writing . Whether there was any picture - writing stage or pictographic stage or ideographic stage in still earlier periods is another question . But one thing appears from the study of scripts that there were stages of transition from ...
... writing . Whether there was any picture - writing stage or pictographic stage or ideographic stage in still earlier periods is another question . But one thing appears from the study of scripts that there were stages of transition from ...
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... 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 quote two autho- rities . David Diringer in his " The Alphabet " ( Ch . VI , Indian Branch ) ...
... 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 quote two autho- rities . David Diringer in his " The Alphabet " ( Ch . VI , Indian Branch ) ...
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