Munda-vedic, mleccha and asur-kahani

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Munda-Vedic, mleccha speakers of Sarasvati civilization

 

The monograph with maps and images is found at

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on munda1.doc A copy of the document can also be obtained by email

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Some key cultural markers of the people of the Sarasvati

civilization are:

 

·women wearing sindur on the partin of the hair;

·a value system which treats water-bodies such as pus.karin.i as

sacred and provides for water drainage systems (exemplified by the

existence of brick-lined tanks and brick-lined drains); and

·working with metals.

 

These three markers point to the presence of Munda speakers in the

civilization area which can be further described as a linguistic

area, with the speakers of Vedic absorbing features from Munda and

Prakr.ts over an extended period of cultural interactions.

 

The language of the civilization was mleccha, not unlike the later-

day ardhama_gadhi, an anariya language used by Mahavira in his

discourses on jaina ariya dhamma. There are many mleccha or munda

words in Vedic apart from the absorption of indigenous traditions

such as e_mu_s.a and dhrumbhu_li. The language of the civilization

evolved in a linguistic area with many features drawn from languages

such as samskr.tam, prakr.ts, nahali, santali, munda which evolved

into the modern-day mosaic of bharatiya languages, further

embellished by a cultural continuity which traces the roots of

bharatiya culture on the banks of rivers Sarasvati and Ganga. This

monograph presents textual and archaeological evidences of this

indigenous evolution of culture and cultural continuity for over

five millennia in Bharat.

 

Hieroglyphs are rebus representations as in Egyptian hieroglyphs

where a bird is shown for the syllable 'ur'. Similarly, to depict a

kut.i 'furnace' a picture is used: kut.hi 'womb or pubes' or

kut.i 'tree'. The language used is proto-indian or proto-bharatiya,

mleccha, the spoken dialect of the times, a proto-ardhama_gadhi_ not

unlike ardhama_gadhi_ used by Mahavira to propagate Jaina ariya

dhamma.