Meluhha to Elam/Mesopotamia: knowledge innovations

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

Meluhha to Elam/Mesopotamia: knowledge innovations

 

Through writing systems, as glyptic representations of metal artisan

guilds' workshop inventory and mleccha/meluhhan language

 

This monograph togther with the evidence of epigraphs

(picture-writing) is mirrored at

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Glyptic themes

 

As an explosion of knowledge occurred to create alloys using two or

more minerals, distillation apparatus, furnaces, another innovation

also occurred in using glyphs to represent knowledge, say, of the

tools and devices used to create such alloys and to represent in

writing the vocalized names of these minerals, metals and alloys. The

result was the innovation of Sarasvati hieroglyphs to record the

artisan workshop's, smithy's, mint's inventory. This innovation

occurred circa 3300 BCE as evidenced by a potsherd with early writing

discovered at Harappa. This could perhaps be the earliest writing

system in the world represented by seafaring smiths of Meluhha who

traveled far and wide in search of alloying minerals such as zinc and

tin.

 

The decipherment is drawn from a review of the entire corpus of over

4000 artifacts with inscriptions. The review is documented in

Sarasvati, encyclopaedic set of 7 books. The code of Sarasvati

hieroglyphs is simple. The glyphs are read rebus using

mleccha/meluhhan language lexemes. Orthographic style is uniform

across a vast region stretching from Mesopotamia to Meluhha.

Orthographic elements are ligatured to achieve economy of space to

represent innovations evolved in metal artisan guilds' workshops or

just, smithy or mint. What were created as glyphs were mythical

representations but minerals, metals and types of furnaces.

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A few examples may be cited to establish the code of Sarasvati

hieroglyphs, without any special pleading or leap of faith.

 

For example, a man's body is ligatured to the hind-part of a bull

(with hoofed legs and tail). What did this ligature connote?

 

d.hagara_m = pl. the buttocks, hip (G.) Rebus: d.han:gar = blacksmith

(H.)

 

Why is a waistband ligatured to a one-horned heifer? To represent

kamarsa_la, artisan's workshop.

 

karma_ras'a_la = workshop of blacksmith (Skt.) kamar a semi-hinduised

caste of blacksmiths; kamari the work of a blacksmith, the money paid

for blacksmith work; nunak ato reak in kamarieda I do the blacksmith

work for so many villages (Santali) kammari, kammari_d.u = a

blacksmith, ironsmith; kammarikamu = a collective name for the people

of the kamma caste (Te.) karma_ras'a_la = workshop of blacksmith

(Skt.) kamma_r-asa_le = the workshop of a blacksmith (Ka.);

kamasa_lava_d.u = a blacksmith (Te.) kamarsa_ri_ smithy (Mth.)

kamba_r-ike, kamma_r-ike = a blacksmith's business

(Ka.Ma.)(Ka.lex.)(DEDR 1236).

 

kamarasa_la = waist-zone, waist-band, belt (Te.) kammaru = the loins,

the waist (Ka.Te.M.); kamara (H.); kammarubanda = a leather waist

band, belt (Ka.H.) kammaru = a waistband, belt (Te.) kammarincu = to

cover (Te.) kamari = a woman's girdle (Te.) komor = the loins

(Santali) [Note the pannier tied as a waist band to the one-horned

heifer.]

 

Why a U-shaped wide-mouthed pot? kod.iyum an earthen cup holding oil

and a wick for a light (G.)

 

Why nine leaves? Why petioles of fig-leaf? kamar.kom = fig leaf

(Santali.lex.) kamarmar.a_ (Has.), kamar.kom (Nag.); the petiole or

stalk of a leaf (Mundari.lex.) Rebus: kamat.a 'smithy'. Substantive:

lo 'iron' (Assamese, Bengali); loa 'iron' (Gypsy) Glyph: lo = nine

(Santali); no = nine (B.) [Note the count of nine 'ficus' leaves

depicted on the epigraph.] damad.i, dammad.i = a ka_su, the fourth

part of a dud.d.u or paisa (Ka.M.); damad.i_ (H.) damr.i, dambr.i =

one eighth of a pice (Santali) dammid.i = pice (Te.) Grapheme:

damad.i, dammad.i = a small tambourine with gejjes (Ka.) Grapheme:

damr.a m. a steer; a heifer; damkom = a bull calf (Santali) Rebus:

damha = a fireplace; dumhe = to heap, to collect together (Santali)

 

How to represent a portable furnace for melting precious metals? Say,

kamat.a ? Depict a yogic posture of sitting.

 

kamat.amu, kammat.amu = a portable furnace for melting precious

metals; kammat.i_d.u = a goldsmith, a silversmith (Te.lex.)

ka~pr.aut., kapr.aut. jeweller's crucible made of rags and clay (Bi.);

kapr.aut.i_ wrapping in cloth with wet clay for firing chemicals or

drugs, mud cement (H.)[cf. modern compounds: kapar.mit.t.i_ wrapping

in cloth and clay (H.); kapad.lep id. (H.)](CDIAL 2874). kapar-mat.t.i

clay and cowdung smeared on a crucible (N.)(CDIAL 2871).

 

kampat.t.tam coinage, coin (Ta.); kammat.t.am, kammit.t.am coinage,

mint (Ma.); kammat.i a coiner (Ka.)(DEDR 1236) kammat.a = coinage,

mint (Ka.M.) kampat.t.a-k-ku_t.am mint; kampat.t.a-k-ka_ran- coiner;

kampat.t.a- mul.ai die, coining stamp (Ta.lex.)

 

Glyph: kamad.ha, kamat.ha, kamad.haka, kamad.haga, kamad.haya = a type

of penance (Pkt.lex.)

 

Evidence of Sarasvati hieroglyph of taberna montana, tagaraka, is

dated to 3300 BCE (cf. Harvard Harappa Project, 2002 season).

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