Tamil Brahmi inscriptions and other archaeological finds

[bis_mala]

In his recent edition of Survey of Hinduism (Sunny, State University of New York Press 1994), Professor Klaus Klostermaier has noted important objections to this theory. He suggests that the weight of evidence is against it and that it should no longer be regarded as the main model of interpreting ancient India.
He states (pg.34): "Both the spatial and the temporal extent of the Indus civilization has expanded dramatically on the basis of new excavations and the dating of the Vedic age as well as the theory of an Aryan invasion of India has been shaken. We are required to completely reconsider not only certain aspects of Vedic India, but the entire relationship between Indus civilization and Vedic culture." Later he adds (pg.3: "The certainty seems to be growing that the Indus civilization was carried by the Vedic Indians, who were not invaders from Southern Russia but indigenous for an unknown period of time in the lower Central Himalayan regions."

Yes, so has he proposed. All depends on how the others respond...!!

[devapriya]

Dear Friends,

Most of the Researchers now feel Indus Civilisation is Purely Indian, and with Vedic Connections.

Dechiphering of Parbola depended on Vedas.

Devapriya

[bis_mala]

Cannot bluff around!

[mahadevan]

Dear Friends,

Most of the Researchers now feel Indus Civilisation is Purely Indian and totally dravidian/tamil, and with no Vedic Connections.

Dechiphering of Parbola depended on IV civilizations correlation with Tamil lit.

Devathidevapriya

[devapriya]

Freinds,

I reuest Mahadevan ugly foolish posts and Mala's say something means nothing, Please read all the articles available on Irawatham Mahadevan and then Post.

Parbola used many Vedic links to Dechipher.

Devapriya

[bis_mala]

Freinds,

I reuest Mahadevan ugly foolish posts and Mala's say something means nothing, Please read all the articles available on Irawatham Mahadevan and then Post.

Parbola used many Vedic links to Dechipher.

Devapriya

Your bluffology is very "good."

I reuest Mahadevan ugly foolish posts

U are requesting more of them! His posts must b good then.

Mala's say something means nothing

How can that be? Awake and u'll see meaning in it!

[sundararaj]

Very interesting article and thanks for all the contributors.

[podalangai]

Nanparkale,

Most people here are probably aware of the work of Parpola and others suggesting that the language of the Indus script was a Dravidian language. Here is a paper by Iravatham Mahadevan which points out an extraordinary resemblance between one of the more common Indus script inscriptions and an inscription on a pot found at Sulur, near Kovai.

http://tinyurl.com/23fs28 (text)
http://tinyurl.com/yo3bor (figures)

It certainly is a striking resemblance. Taken together with the ever-older Tamil Brahmi inscriptions being discovered at Adichanallur, it says volumes about the antiquity of our language and civilisation.

[crazy]

Thanks, for sharing with us anna

[kannannn]

Thanks a lot for the links Podalai . Though Mahadevan sidesteps the language issue (which I think is deliberate), I think such resemblences in sequences reinforce an important point: that the scripts are just that - scripts. Wonder what Farmer and Co. have to say to this!!