Map of Sapta Sindhu

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My thanks to Michel Danino for providing this reference.

 

I would recommend to Irfan Habib and Romila Thapar a reading of this

French work, Kenoyer's Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley

Civilization and also the encyclopaedic work of 7 books on Sarasvati:

http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/exchange-

glance/Y01Y2082414Y0848505/002-5207429-3881666 Possehl lists over

2000 archaeological sites (out of 2600) on the banks of River

Sarasvati (1500 sites within present-day Bharat), in his gazetteer

in the Indus Age: The Beginnings. This will also be useful data to

understand why kol means 'alloy of five metals' in Tamil; how this

can be represented by a Sarasvati hieroglyph: tiger 'kola'. Why does

the tiger turn its face backwards? Rebus: krammara 'turn back'

(Telugu); karma_ra 'smith' (Samskr.tam), kammara 'smith' (Telugu).

That's why. Such a tiger therefore connotes a smith working with the

pancaloha alloy, not unlike the vis'vakarma working today in

Swa_mimalai (an ar-upat.ai vi_t.u of e_raka subrahman.ya;

e_raka! 'copper'), an astonishing 5000 year-old artisan guild

tradition.

 

With such evidence, Irfan should be able to write a better text book

on the roots of Hindu culture from circa 8500 years Before Present.

This date is crucial because of a stratigraphically attested burial

with artefacts reported by Jarrige from Mehergarh. The artefacts are

all made of turbinella pyrum (s'ankha), which could have been

obtained only from the coastline of Hindusthan, perhaps Makran

coast. Turbinella pyrum, is a species which is not available

anywhere else in the world. The s'ankha industry survives even today

in Gulf of Mannar with an annual turnover of Rs. 50 crores recorded

by West Bengal Handicrafts Development Corporation there obtaining

s'ankha from divers. Without a s'ankha bangle, no Bengali or Oriya

marriage is complete. We know the importance of s'ankha in the

cultural heritage of Bharat; it adorns Vis.n.u, Bhairava and is

Pa_ncajanya of Kr.s.n.a...