Harappan script (21 Ergebnisse)

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Contents Preface 1 The Language Issue 2 The Harappan Seal Motifs and Rigvedic Parallels 3 Making Bridgeheads 4 Interpreting the Signs-I 5 Interpreting the Signs-II 6 Interpreting the Signs-III 7 Water and Light in the Harappan Religion 8 Nature of the Harappan Script 9 Conclusion Bibliography IndexThree thousand years before the birth of Christ a magnificent civilization flourished in the vast area now constituting Pakistan and western part of India More than one thousand Harappan sites dotted across this wide area have already been identified and quite a few excavated Our knowledge of this civilization has greatly expanded since it fist came into notice in 1924 However since its script is still a mystery we are in the dark about their identityThis book is a fresh attempt at reading the Harappan script; analyzing and reading the signs and inscriptions forming its main burden In the absence of a bilingual inscription the author has relied on visual bilinguals and interpretation of Harappan artistic motifs in making initial bridgehead for reading the signs and clinching the language issues It is observed that there are surprising parallels between Harappan motifs and Rigvedic metaphors These parallels cannot be mere coincidence The similarities are possible only if Harappans and Rigvedic Aryans were tapping their imageries from a shared cultural streamThe author is of the view that Aryan language is a serious contender for the Harappan script The script is found to be logo-syllabic with very little grammatical content Although the language of the script appears to be an Aryan the Harappans are not found to be synonymous with Rigvedic Aryans For example the Harappan inscriptions refer to vitra who was held in esteem by them However students of Rigveda know that there this word mainly conveyed hostile and inimical connotations At the same time many Rigvedic political cultural social concepts are reflected in Harappan inscriptions This can only be explained by the fact that the ancestors of the Rigvedic people also formed part of the Harappan social milieu The Harappans perhaps had considerable social and cultural diversity as has been the case in India all through the recorded history The book provides a fresh insight into the unresolved issue of the Harappan script 188 pp.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. viii, 239 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. Summary:"The text represents some ten years of work on the writing of the Harappan or Indus Civilization. It began out of frustration with the inability to more than record the seal-tablets and graffiti emanating from excavations at the Harappan site of Allahdino near Karachi. The fact has been that of all of the primary civilizations of the Old World only that of India has not been deciphered. Without the knowledge of the writing, archaeologists are terribly handicapped in identifying that civilization's place, not only in terms of subcontinental history, but in the larger history of civilization itself." "Over the years the research has led up many blind alleys adding only frustration on the one side, but also evoking a very real admiration for the similar efforts of others who were and are working on the same problem. The problems of historical linguistics or philology have been slow to solve but those solutions are essential to any decipherment." "The Harappan script is now well on its way to a final decipherment because of these efforts, as this book demonstrates. One can at last, move ahead in the understanding of the significant culture of India's remote past."--BOOK JACKET.…

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Contents: Vol. I. Preface. Introduction. 1. Work done on decipherment of Harappan script/D.P. Sharma. 2. Decipherment of Harappan script/I. Mahadevan. 3. Harappan seals and sealings/D.P. Sharma. 4. The Harappan script and Shamans cult/Sourg J. Newsbery. 5. Harappan seals and tablets with anthropomorphic motifes/E.R. Ushana. 6. Terminal ideograms in the Harappan script/I. Mahadevan. 7. Harappan script/G. Possehl. 8. Harappan seals : problems and prospects/P.V. Pathak. 9. The Harappan script : some observation/S. Kak. 10. Seals from Harappa (a pictorial representation of RV V. 78 with the Asvin twins as presiding deities)/P.V. Pathak. 11. Cryptogram or copper tablets from Mohenjodaro/A. Sundara. 12. Rare seals and Harappan civilization/D.P. Sharma. 13. Harappan script on the final way to decipherment/D.P. Sharma. 14. Interpretation of signs and pictograms/D.P. Sharma. Vol. II. 15. The Harappan script/Asko Parpola. 16. A protohistoric painted motif from Baluchistan : its significance/Krishna Kumar. 17. The evolution of visual communication/D.P. Sharma. 18. The knowledge of Harappan language/Dhanpat Dhania. 19. Sacred bull : the royal emblem on the Harappan seal/P.V. Pathak. 20. Rongorongo and Harappan script/B. Chakravarti. 21. Language of Harappan people/D.P. Sharma. 22. A sealing from Rakhigarhi/Sudarshan Bhardwaj. 23. Harappan seal and Atharvaveda/P.V. Pathak. 24. Harappan language and script/N.S. Rajaram. 25. The unicorn on Harappan seal/Kalpana S. Desai. 26. Religious nature of Indus seals and inscriptions/Benille Priyanka. Conclusion. Glossary. Bibliography. The book Decipherment of Harappan Script is the result from an interest which the author developed in Harappan archaeology since last 24 years during his stay in Institute of Archaeology London and later on in National Museum, New Delhi where he was holding charge of Harappan material. Proto Dravidian and earliest Aryan were present in Harappan population. The author concluded Harappan script was Proto Brahmi and their languages were Proto-Dravidian Brahui and Laukik Sanskrit. The more positive chapter is identification of Harappan script sign. This book has 27 papers on Harappan script. The author contradicted pre conceived idea of only Dravidian language theory of Harappan. He prefers name of South Asian civilization for this earliest Harappan civilization of South Asia. A unique contribution of the author is identification of inscribed double headed terracotta Siva from Kalibangan. Which has three sign in proto-Brahmi script and author read these sign as Sivam. (jacket).…

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Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1992. VIII, 239 pp. Hardcover, d./j. The text represents some ten years of work on the writing of the Harappan or Indus Civilization. It began out of frustration with the inability to more than record the seal-tablets and graffiti emanating from excavations at the Harappan site of Allahdino near Karachi. The fact has been that of all of the primary civilizations of the Old World only that of India has not been deciphered. Without the knowledge of the writing, archaeologists are terribly handicapped in identifying that civilization's place, not only in terms of subcontinental history, but in the larger history of civilization itself." "Over the years the research has led up many blind alleys adding only frustration on the one side, but also evoking a very real admiration for the similar efforts of others who were and are working on the same problem. The problems of historical linguistics or philology have been slow to solve but those solutions are essential to any decipherment." "The Harappan script is now well on its way to a final decipherment because of these efforts, as this book demonstrates. One can at last, move ahead in the understanding of the significant culture of India's remote past [Publisher].…