Sarasvati hieroglyphs and Bharatiya cultural continuum

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HinduThought, "S. Kalyanaraman"

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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:

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

 

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

erroneously looped/linked in the earlier version.). Kindly reload the

URL. Sorry for the 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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