Munda-vedic, mleccha and asur-kahani

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Srinivasan Kalyanaraman <kalyan97@g...> wrote:

Munda-Vedic, mleccha speakers of Sarasvati civilization

 

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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.

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