From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 17388
Date: 2003-01-04
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Subject: [tied] Re: PIE homeland in northwest India?
> I have the book "Vedic Aryans and the Origins of Civilization" by
> Navaratna S.Rajaram and David Frawley, ISBN 81-85990-36-0, publ. by
> Voice of India.
>
> This book says that Natwar Jha has decipered the Indus valley script
> and that it turned out to be Sanskrit written in a syllabary that
> largely ignored vowels. What support is there for this decipherment?
The alleged decipherment is ridiculous -- a typical exercise in self-deception, when "decipherers" manipulate the data so as to be able to see what they want to see. Absolute rubbish, unsupported by a single competent specialist in ancient languages and scripts. I'm not surprised that a book co-authored by N.S. Rajaram is not critical of it, since Rajaram was also Jha's partner in that bogus "decipherment".
Piotr