Terracotta toys show yogic asanas: 1-4, from Harappa; 5-6, from Mohenjo-daro.This cultural continuity also continues in the art of bronze-statue making using cire perdue (lost-wax) technique andin the languages spoken in India and in particular, in thedevices punched on early punch-marked coins from 10
th
century BCE – devices which are comparable to the manyrecurring Sarasvati hieroglyphs such as svastika, tree, rimof jar, bull, zebu, elephant, boar, spoked-wheel, summit of mountain, fish. Colin Masica posits a Language X to explainthe remarkable fact that a large percentage of agriculturalwords do not have I-E cognates (Colin Masica, 1991,
Indo- Aryan Languages
, Cambridge Univ. Press). Kuiper hasdemonstrated the presence of Munda words in earlySanskrit. [F.B.J. Kuiper, 1948,
Proto-Munda Words inSanskrit
, Amsterdam, Verhandeling der Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie VanWetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks Deel Li, No. 3, 1948]The Indian Lexiconwhich is a compilation of about 8000 semantic clusters from over 25 ancient languages of India demonstrates the essential semantic unity among Indian languages. Thus, it isappropriate to look to reconstruct the mleccha glosses using ancient languages of the linguisticarea and matching them with the Sarasvati hieroglyphs (pictorial motifs and signs read rebus).There is evidene from an Akkadian cylinder seal that the language of the civilization area wasMeluhha (cognate: mleccha in Skt. Milakkhu in Pali).
The Meluhhan beingintroduced carries anantelope on his arm.
Cylinder sealImpression. Akkadian.Inscription records thatit belongs to ‘S’u-ilis’u,Meluhha interpreter’.Musee du Louvre. Ao 22310, Collection DeClercq.
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