Mleccha
and
mlecchitavikalpa
in Sarasvatihieroglyphs(Decoding Indus script as a writing system)
S. Kalyanaraman, Ph.D.,Director, SarasvatiResearch Centrekalyan97@gmail.comResources at:http://sites.google.com/site/kalyan9726 Feb. 2009
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arasam
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.)
"All words are semantic indicators.“(Tol. Peya.1)
This is a tribute to
^
Mahadevan, Parpolaand scholars of Indian civilization studies. This is
ि
M.
[
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n
(S) Debt. Three departments of man's debt are reckoned, viz.
, ि,ि,
q. v.This is thus a homage to
ि
who have given us a civilization under dharma or
a
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n
. <
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¹-. [K.
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, M.
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.] 1. Moral or religious duty, virtue, performance ofgood works according to the Š
ā
stras, duties to be practiced.<
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Raison d’etre
of my life: repay
ि
–a homage to
ि
who have given me my social identity andgoals of life, puru
ā
rtha.
Most of the ca. 500+ glyphs and glyptic elements have been identifiedwith precision (without ambiguity) thanks to the brilliant work done byMahadevan, Parpolaand other scholars who have contributed tounraveling the orthography and structure of the writing systemEach glyph is a potential resource for relating the glyph to glosses ofIndian languages to identify mlecchaglosses in the linguistic areaIsoglosses will help reconstruct proto-mlecchaand proto-vedic.Glyptic semantic clusters decode the writing system using the simplerebus method --occam’srazor (rebus: A representation of words inthe form of pictures or symbols, often presented as a puzzle. FromLatin
rebus
, ablative pl. of
res
, thing. –bartleby.com) and relatingthem to one semantic category: early workings in mines, earlyworkings with minerals and metals –an industrial revolution of thoseancient times.
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Sarasvatihieroglyphs as made by mleccha[copper workers; ‘milakkhu’ (Pali); lapidaries ‘sangatar
ā
s
ū
’(S.)]: mlecchitavikalpais the writingsystem of the language, mleccha(Manu, V
ā
tsy
ā
na,
ś
atapathabr
ā
hma
a,MBh.) See bh
ā
ā
--P
ā
and de
śī
of Hemacandra
) Hieroglyphs continue tobe used in mints for punch-marked coins –from Tak
a
ś
ilatoAnuradhapura --and from early 10
th
cent. BCE*coin devices –averaging5 per coin --mostly a legacy of pictorial motifs and signs of Sarasvatihieroglyphs.) [*The date of 10
th
cent. BCE is mentioned in DRBhandarkar, 1921,
Lectures on Ancient Indian Numismatics
, Univ. of Calcutta]
Rebus readings of almost all glyphs (pictorial motifs as well assigns) relate to mineworkers’and metalsmiths’repertoire. The writing system is a vikalpa(alternativerepresentation) of their vernacular, mleccha, cognate: meluhha. Presented in 15 e-books athttp://sites.google.com/site/kalyan97In view of the essentially pictographic nature of the writing system, the presentation ismade in three parts:1.powerpointslides with the glyphs and readings;2.monograph on vernacular (de
śī
), the linguistic area and the continuity of proto-mlecchavernacular; structure and semantics of hieroglyphs of mlecchitavikalpa,the decoded writing system; and3.EpigraphicaSarasvatiof about 4000 inscribed epigraphs on photo albums.
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