Guest guest Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 The corpus of sarasvati hieroglyphs makes use of graphemes and underlying sounds provided by homonyms of mleccha. For example, kamad.ha can be represented (mlecchita vikalpa) by: 1. a person in a yogic posture or in penance 2. a ficus religiosa leaf or petiole of leaf 3. an archer Asko Paropala makes provides a remarkable insight by equating two identical copper plate inscriptions with two distinctly different hieroglyphs on the obverse: 1. archer; 2. ficus religiosa leaf. The lexeme (and phonetic variants), kamad.ha (Prakrit) explains these two glyphs and also the depiction of a person in penance. It is remarkable that this image of penance also occurs on a terracotta triangular cake found in Gulf of Khambat (NIOT). The rebus is: kammat.a 'mint' (Kannada). Thus there are internal concordances within the corpus of inscribed objects which can be used to crack the code of the hieroglyphs using mleccha, a Prakrit, a proto-Indian language of the linguistic area circa 5000 years Before Present. See: http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/homonym1.pdf titled Homonyms, graphemes, sarasvati hieroglyphs Kalyanaraman Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 Oops. I apologise for the typographical error in spelling Asko Parpola's name. His contribution to unravelling the writing system of the civilization is unparalleled. Kalyanaraman Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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