Bronze age trade and meluhha writing system
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Mleccha, Meluhha (Language, dictionary, writing) The two pdf documents (listed above for download) link two related, significant events in cultural history: bronze age trade and writing system as necessary inventions about 5000 years ago in Sarasvati civilization area.
Mleccha, Meluhha (Language, dictionary, writing)
The two pdf documents (listed above for download) link two related, significant events in cultural history: bronze age trade and writing system as necessary inventions about 5000 years ago in Sarasvati civilization area.
This is an excercise in cryptography and leads to an understanding of the evolution of bharatiya languages as a family of (indic) languages -- what may be called a linguistic area of circa 3500 BCE related to Proto-Vedic Continuity Theory of Bharatiya Languages. http://protovedic.blogspot.com .
Swami Sarveshvarananda Giri has presented a fascinating account of the riddle in Jatugriha (shellac house) parva of Mahabharata.
http://www.storytellingmonk.org/stories/riddles/scriptures-east/A_burning_house.htm I have used this mleccha riddle to resolve the problem of the so-called Indus script (I call it Sarasvati hieroglyphs). I made a presentation at the 5th International Congress on Archaeology of Ancient Near East held in Madrid in April 2006. This is referred to in the following URL to prove that mleccha were metal workers who created the Sarasvati civilization. [This monograph also includes the entire text and translation from Jatugriha parva.] The cryptography in Mahabharata and the fact that Yudhishthira and Vidura spoke in mleccha shows that this was the substratum bharatiya language, proto-Prakrit, proto-Pali, an Indic language family. The extraordinary metallurgical legacy continued in Bharat making the Vidisha iron pillar (now called Delhi iron pillar) a masterly work, unsurpassed in technological brrilliance anywhere else in the world, a pillar cast by bharatiyo 'caster of metals' (Gujarati). We have to regain that glorious heritage of our ancestors, the mleccha (meluhha) of 4th millennium BCE.
Mahabharata cryptography has helped crack the cryptography of mlecchita vikalpa (mentioned as one of the 64 arts by Vatsyayana). Mlecchita, made by mleccha-speakers. Mleccha-mukha is copper in Samskr.tam; milakkha in Pali. The riddle of what pitr-s of Bharatiya wrote from 3300 BCE (first potsherd with writing found at Harappa in 2004) has been resolved, thanks to Vidura's advice to Yudhishthira and the guidance provided by Khanaka (mine-worker) to Yudhishthira (also outlined in the Mahabharata text)..
Koles are brilliant smelters; assurs are brilliant iron workers. Now we have also found iron smelters in Ganga valley dated to circa 1800 BCE, thanks to the work of Dr. Rakesh Tewari, Dept. of Archaeology, Lucknow in the excavations at Lohardiwa, Raja-nal-ka-tila, Malhar. It appears we had an iron age coterminus with the bronze age trade in the 2nd millennium BCE. Trade became necessary and so did writing become necessary as bharatiyo moved human civilization to the industrial phase using technology. Surely, earlier generations of Gypsies (smiths) had also moved out of Bharat searching for mineral resources. In Gypsy (which is clearly an indic language), kaulo mengro means 'blacksmith'. kol 'furnace'; mangar 'worker'; these words could be represented by hieroglyphs: fish [kola_ 'flying fish' (Tamil)]; mangar 'alligator' (Santali). We find some examples of alligator catching a fish in its jaws on seals containing Sarasvati hieroglyphs (Indus script). There are a few thousand examples of this kind of rebus (similar sounding words) rendering of hieroglyphs, mlecchita vikalpa. There are also some 'rosetta stones' which confirm the readings.
It is not a mere coincidence that bharatiyo means 'caster of metals' in Gujarati.
What a privilege it is that this great epic, this monument to Dharma, the Mahabharata, the sheet anchor of the history of Bharat, mahabharat should provide the clue to a riddle which has puzzled us for 130 years, ever since the first discovery of a seal of Hindu civilization by Cunningham in 1875.
This URL (31 slides) updates the webpages related to the cryptography of Indus script and is based on the resources and references cited in the 7-volume eneyclcopaedia on Sarasvati.
As the cryptography (mlecchita vikalpa) of the so-called Indus Script (what I call Sarasvati hieroglyphs) unravels, we can find a remarkable continuity of language and related cultural evolution of Hindu Civilization from the roots of Sarasvati Civilization.
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