Myth-making on Indus script

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INDOLOGY, "Steve Farmer" <saf@s...> wrote:

> http://compling.ai.uiuc.edu/rws/newindex/publications.html

 

 

Thanks, Steve for the note. Since you refer to my decipherments, I

presume that the three scholars have read my works on the script

problem including my Bibliography cited by Asko Parpola, G. Possehl

and volumes 6 and 7 of Sarasvati (published in 2003) on Language and

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

glance/Y01Y2082414Y0848505/002-5207429-3881666 Also reviewed

in `Choice' by Prof. V V Raman. After getting your confirmation on

this presumption, I would like to ask some specific questions on

Munda of the linguistic area.

 

Why have the learned authors of the EJVS article chosen to make

arbitrary selection of symbols and to ignore the

unambiguous `symbols' such as the following; and, if indeed, all

these `symbols' have been taken into account, how do they relate to

heraldry or agricultural practices:

 

Alligator

Lizard

Snake

Brahmani bull

Ox

Buffalo

Vagina of a woman with outstretched thighs and flanked by two

scorpions

Woman ligatured to a tiger

Fish over an ox, bird over a bull

Copulation by bovine

Bull in heat trampling over a woman (?) lying down

Dotted circles ligatured on a portable furnace

Jar with rim

Pot without rim

Person seated in a yogic posture wearing buffalo horns and twigs on

hair-do

Tiger looking back, antelope looking back

Standing person

Water carrier

Nine leaves (pipal?) flanked by two one-horned bulls in profile

Circle with six spokes

^, yes ^ also ligatured to a jar with rim

A bovine buttock ligatured to a standing, horned-

person lifting up his right hand

A complex animal (heifer) always faceing towards a standard-device

 

I have no comments to make on Richard's work on corpus linguistics.

The issue in the present context of `no Indus script' is why they are

not hieroglyphs. A mere reference to an Egyptian hieroglyph example

does not answer my specific questions on why the 'symbols' of Indus

script are NOT heiroglyphs.

 

Thanks and regards. Kalyanaraman