[Y-Indology] Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies: Indus-Script Myth

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

> > The following may be of interest to members:

> > ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF VEDIC STUDIES (EJVS)

> Vol. 11 (2004) Issue 2 (December 13) : 19-57 ( C) ISSN 1084-

7561> > The Collapse of the Indus-Script Thesis:> The Myth of a

Literate Harappan Civilization > By Steve Farmer, Richard Sproat,

and Michael Witzel

 

One of the authors who claims to have seen 'Para'-Munda (whatever it

means) in the civilization area, now joins with others to claim that

the Harppans were illiterate.

 

Two reasons are adequate to demolish the reductio ad absurdum in an

incoherent jumbling up of anecdotes from unconnected places: 1. there

is no reason to assume that heraldic or agricultural symbols were

depicted without understanding why they were so depicted; 2. citing

arbitrary, anecdotal evidences from other far-off places for such

assumed symbolism is reducing scholarship to the level of absurdity.

 

For a literate reading of the script, why can't the glyphs be assumed

to be heiroglyphs? The learned trio are breath-takingly silent on

this possibility. Talk of myth-making !

 

Kalyanaraman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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