era, copper; bed.a, hearth: Sarasvati hieroglyphs on two daggers and on Dholavira Signboard

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This message relates to two sets of Sarasvati hieroglyphs: 1. fish glyphs which

occur 1241 times on the epigraphs and also on fish-shaped incised tablets; 2.

ten glyphs which constitute a message on a monolithic signboard found at

Dholavira.

 

 

 

The underlying sounds are lexemes of mleccha, in a linguistic area of

Sarasvati-Sindhu river basins circa 4th millennium BCE. The language is attested

in Mahabharata as the language used for conversation between Vidura and

Yudhishthira.

 

 

 

1. URL: http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/wheel1.pdf (1 mb) Decoding Dholavira

Signboard: vis'vakarma tradition

 

 

 

The signboard with ten glyphs can be decoded as the repertoire of metalcaster's

workshop displayed on the northern gateway of the fort. Dholavira village is

called kotada (kot. = fort). It is notable that out of these ten glyphs, the

glyph denoting 'nave of wheel' appears four times, virtually forming the divider

of a three-part message.

 

 

 

era, er-a = eraka = ?nave; erako_lu = the iron axle of a carriage (Ka.M.); cf.

irasu (Ka.lex.) era = nave of wheel (Kannada); ara_ = spokes (R.gveda); rebus:

ara, era = copper (Pali. Pkt.) aru = copper (Akkadian)

 

 

 

Read from right to left, the message on the signboard is: 1. mineral, moltencast

coppersmith; 2. silver, native metal, bronze, moltencast copper; 3. mint

(workshop), copper (ore) and moltencast copper.

 

 

2. URL:http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/fish1.pdf (2.7 mb)

Decoding Fish glyphs as Sarasvati hieroglyphs: vis'vakarma artisan guild

tradition

 

bhed.a hako = fish (Santali); rebus: bed.a = one end of a hearth (Gujarati)

 

The fish glyph variants are also explained in the continuum of Vis'vakarma

metallurgical tradition.

 

Rebus code is a metaphor for an incipient writing system.

 

 

 

 

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