Sarasvati hieroglyphs and bharatiya cultural continuum

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Sarasvati hieroglyphs and Bharatiya cultural continuum

 

The roots of indian civilization are found on the banks of River Sarasvati, with

over 80% of the 2,600 archaeological sites located on this river basin --

marginally also on Sindhu river banks -- and along the coastline of

Meluhha-Magan-Dilmun. The early mleccha speakers attested in Mahabharata are:

Vidura and Yudhis.t.hira. Mleccha, mlecchamukha also means copper (Skt.), a

reference to Khetri-Ahar-Zawar mines in the central Sarasvati river basin.

 

The page in html format is at:

http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/sarasvatihieroglyphs1

 

The URL has been updated with over 300 hieroglyphs (which were erroneously

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inconvenience caused

 

Versions of this monograph were presented at the Pondicherry Institute of

Linguistics and Culture (Thanjavur University) on 28th Sept. 2003 and at the

Indian Institute for Advanced Study at Shimla on 29th Sept. 2003. An expanded

version will be presented in the Indian Archaeological Society meeting in

December 2003.

 

A new perspective relates to the presence of zinc in artefacts of the

civilization. This is a crucial metallurgical find because there are over 50

svastika hieroglyphs used on epigraphs (for e.g., 1) with an elephant and a

tiger glyph; 2) with an endless-knot motif; 3) with a bison glyph; and 4)

right-handed/left-handed svastika seals). One seal with this hieroglyph has also

been discovered at Tepe Yahya.

 

Language X and Nahali (< Nagari) provide the framework for identifying the

substratum, dialectical continuum of a linguistic area circa 5000 years Before

Present on Sarasvati-Sindhu doab. va_k or parole (spoken idiom) can be

reconstructed based on the rebus readings of over 500 hieroglyphs.

 

Over 4,000 of the 5,600 Dravidian etyma (DEDR) have cognates in Indo-Aryan and

Munda streams as presented in over 8000 semantic clusters on an Indian Lexicon

(for over 25 ancient languages of Bharat).

 

The continuity of the hieroglyphs on punch-marked, cast coins (from circa 600

BCE) as a pan-bharatiya phenomenon from Taks.as'ila to Coimbatore, and use of

copper plates for property transactions is no mere coincidence since they relate

to the key transactions of artisan guilds of historical periods. It is also no

coincidence that bharatiyo in Gujarati means 'caster of metals'.

 

The rebus code of the hieroglyphs unravels in the context of artisan guilds,

minerals, metals and furnaces represented as Sarasvati hieroglyphs -- metaphors

for property transactions during a period of transition from chalcolithic

(Copper-stone) to alloying (bronze, brass) phases, the latter constituting a

revolutionary technological advance, exemplified by the continued use of

pan~caloha (alloy of 5 metals) by vis'vakarma of Swamimalai using cire perdue

technique for making bronze mu_rti.

 

Kalyanaraman

 

 

 

 

 

 

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