| Dr.Akso parpola's 3rd volume 'deciphering the Indus script; challenges and some head ways' would be a real tool in understanding the mysteries of Indus civilization in Indian subcontinent, if it based on the value or any other system This article is being written, by keeping the news item carried out in 'the Hindu newspaper, dated, April, 15, 2010, under the caption,'deciphring the Indus script; challenges and some head ways', in mind that the current work on Dravidian hypothesis of Dr.Asko Parpola who has undertaken, the work, for which he has been selected for Tamil award for the year 2009. And the Tamil award to him to be presented by the chief minister of Tamilnadu, Sri M. Karunanidhi at the world classical Tamil conference to be held from June23 to 27, 2010 at Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, and India.
The identification of language of the Indus valley civilization and its affiliated family of the languages is a very problematic one to identify the real nature of the script and the nature of society. No doubt that it is an urbanized life the people enjoyed at that time they lived. Well advanced and modernized system of usage of sign boards in their habitations. We cannot calculate the standards of the civilization in all the way of farming the lands, canalizing the water ways to the lands, calculations of the time, days, months, years, measurements of bricks, sizes, steps of the staircases, accounts of the food grains, live stock, cutting of the woods, leather works, waving of the cloths, coloring the cloths, handicrafts' works, gold, iron, silver, copper, with other metallic tools, tools of rural artisans, digging of the reservoirs, calculations of the wages to the workers, or any system they were followed while carrying out the community level works, domestication of animals, security systems for the protection of the life from the wild animals, and from poisonous reptiles, engaging the men for spiritual works, food habits from the animals to vegetables and other items they used to eat, like birds and fish, social relations in giving and receiving the exchanging systems of house hold articles, without comparative study of the rig Vedic society through the verses of Rig-Veda only as a source of its own in finding out the composition of the social classes at that time they lived within their limited territory of Indian subcontinent. While comparing nature of the two societies in the Indian sub continent on the difference of the time on the world scale of time lines, we cannot arrive at any concrete convictions from the mysteries of the script systems of all world civilizations without going through the techniques of the decipherments, if that are the scripts with all the requirements of calling them scripts.
The rig Vedic language, Sanskrit, off course it is in the list of extinct languages, because it has no native speakers at that of its origin, here in India .
For the first time the word 'family' of Dravidian language was used in 1816, by Francis Ellis, who made a list of related languages to Dravidian. Four languages, Tulu, Kodagu, Malto including Dravidian, he named as the family of the Dravidian languages. Soon after, in 1856, Robert cold well added several languages to the list, such as Kota, Toda, Gondi. Kui, Kurush, and Brahui, as all these languages were brought under one umbrella and tagged it as the Dravidian language family in India. All these languages have its roots prior to the period of 1500BC. Harappan site and symbols came out when the British authorities were engaged in construction work with the Harappan bricks for railway line from Karachi to Lahore in Pakistan in 1857, sir john Marshall who had carried out exaction work and discovered the further details of civilization in1912, and process of excavations were taken place in little way.
The relationship and comparison of the words from any language to any language through translations for the meanings would never establish the direct relations or indirect influence in confirming the claims in the history of the languages in the world. In 1963, Dr. N. Lahovary, who provided the list of hundreds words published, by orient Longman publishers from page no 164 to167, under the caption 'Dravidian origins and the west' in which hundreds of words he composed with the meanings of the Basque and Dravidian comparisons. And made everybody to feel that the Basque and Dravidian languages are inseparable from each other and have the common origin from the common place with having the genetic relationship of its speakers for a longtime. The original place of Basque speakers is in between the border of France and Spain . It has been stated that the Basque spoke before arrival of indo-Europeans there prior to 5years.
The Indus valley civilisation had more than one language at that time and Sanskrit has no role in that whole period of its life from 3100 to 1500 b .c. Of the two or more scripts, one may be related to Dravidian languages. The common source of the Dravidian languages could never be either Brahvi or Kharosthy Here is the case of d. Mc Apin, Who proposed the Dravidian language family in his hypothesis through 'Proto-Elamo-Dravidian ' believing and expecting positive results by working on his proposal, many researchers adopted. They were immediately back stepped due the soviet teams' findings on the structures of 'fixes' of the Indus writings. .the language of Mohenjo Daro belonged to the Monda family of languages, but the chances for finding its relationship with the Indus script are not bright. So no researcher would initiate for further findings. The researchers and the writers have repeatedly written lot about the Indus valley civilization without any newness and their findings did not move further with their methodological changes on the same objects already available at all museums. And they are not coming with new theoretical proposals on the same subjects and its issues. However I hope his courage for working on the Dravidian bases thesis is very courageous and proves step advancement in deciphering the script and its related mysteries for the whole world. So it is too early to comment on his work before its release. Ayub Mohammed http://groups.yahoo.com/group/political_analysts/ |
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