As'oka 800 BCE, punch-marked coins a continuity of Sarasvati hieroglyphs of the metals age

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HinduThought, Srinivasan Kalyanaraman

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Almost all devices shown on early punch-marked coins from all over

Bharat are a direct continuation from the hieroglyphs of Sarasvati

civilization (so-called Indus script). What do these devices signify?

Mints. Furnaces. Minerals. Metals. Lapidary tools of trade. These

signify a revolution in organizing the society for long-distance

trade, while using the great inventions of alloys to produce hard

metallic weapons and tools. It is not mere accident that iron was

also

smelted in the Ganga basin in the mid-3rd millennium BCE It is not

mere coincidence that the hieroglyphs are incised on two pure tin

ingots found in a shipwreck in Haifa. See the weapons used on a

necklace worn by a yaks.i in a Barhut Stu_pa. See the evidence of the

most comprehensive corpus of epigraphs of Sarasvati Civilization

provided in Sarasvati 7 volume encyclopaedia by S. Kalyanaraman. The

Sohgaura copper plate line 1 is a set of hieroglyphs which can be

interpreted based on the interpretation of Sarasvati hieroglyphs

using

Mleccha, the dialect spoken by Vidura and Yudhishthira in the

Mahabharata while discussing the technical details of non-metallic

weapons in La_ks.a_gr.ha. Yes, mleccha, meluhha, which required an

interpreter in Mesopotamia (as shown on a cylinder seal of a Meluhhan

carrying an antelope and his dharmapatni carrying the kaman.d.alu

which is an alchemical resource). It is no mere coincidence that

almost the entire corpus of inscriptions can be deciphered in the

context of the metallurgist, vis'vakarma's repertoire using many

Mundarica lexemes (Mundarica is a significant presence in the

R.gvedna). It is no mere coincidence that the s'ankha (turbinella

pyrum) industry which began in the riverine, maritime civilization

circa 6500 BCE (cf. Jarrige) continues even today in Gulf of Khambat,

Gulf of Mannar with an annual turn over of Rs. 50 crores today by

West

Bengal Development Corpn. with their offices in Ki_r..akkarai,

Tiruchendur.

 

The date of As'oka has been proved stratigraphically to be circa 1000

BCE by Prof. Adiga Sundara of Karnataka University, Dharwar.

 

Dhanyavaadah. Kalyanaraman

 

Coin system, interesting chapter in India's cultural history

 

Mysore, Jan. 8. (UNI): The Indian Coinage system forms a brilliant

and

interesting chapter in the cultural history of the country and the

common man ought to know about the numismatic heritage of the

country,

according to an expert.

 

The coinage system, with all its pluralistic characters, religious

symbols, techniques, scripts and legends, maintained an underlying

principle of begins Indian. "This quality and character has made

every

one of us proud inheritors of a sound currency system," says Dr A V

Narasimha Murthy, Coin Expert and General Secretary of the South

Indian Numismatic Society.

 

Over the years there had been innumerable changes in the coinage

system in terms of technology, typology, weight, size and shape.

Every

dynasty and king had contributed to this change in some way.

 

Talking to UNI, Mr Murthy, who has authored more than a dozen books

on

coins, says though Mysore was one of the earliest States to establish

a Department on Archaeology, numismatics did not seem to have

received

enough attention. It was Mr M H Krishna, who initiated a systematic

study of coins of Karnataka in the department.

 

Though one of the earliest books on coins was a brief sketch of gold,

silver and copper coinage of Mysore, written by Hawkes in 1856, the

credit for compiling a valuable history of coins in South India,

however, goes to Sir Walter Elliot, a great numismatist. His work,

Coins of Southern India, formed part of the famous series 'Numismata

Orientalia', published in 1884.

 

Mr Murthy, who will be presenting a paper on 'Punch-marked coins of

Bhadravathi' at the XV South Indian Numismatic Society Conference to

be held at Kaiwara in Kolar district on Saturday, says it was during

the period of King Ashoka in 800 BC that coins were issued using the

punching system. These coins had no particular shape, but carried

various symbols such as elephant, bull, horse, sun, hill and river,

besides the face of kings.

 

 

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