Indus Writing in ancient Near East: Corpora and a dictionary [Paperback 572
pages]
S. Kalyanaraman<
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Book Description ISBN-13: 978-0982897188
Publication Date: April 3, 2013
Based on corpora of Indus writing and a dictionary, the book
validates Aristotle’s insight on writing systems. Indus writing
is composed using symbols of spoken words. The symbols are
hieroglyphs of meluhha (mleccha) words spoken by artisans recording
the repertoire of stone, mineral and metal workers. The writing
results in a set of catalogs of metalworking of bronze age. Evidence
of this competence in metallurgy which evolved from 4th millennium
BCE of bronze age, is provided in corpora of metalware catalogs and
a dictionary of melluhha (mleccha). Indus writing was a principal
tool of economic administration for account-keeping by artisan and
trader guilds and did not record literature or, history. Some sacred
ideas and historical links across interaction areas between India
and ancient Near East, may be inferred from the writing.
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A 180-page, companion document is an illustrated novel titled:
*Akkadian rising sun* also published on April 3, 2013.
http://tinyurl.com/braztyn
ISBN-13: 978-0982897195
Sagan in search of Sarasvati ends up in Muztagh Ata and encounters
Chinese guards guarding the treasure of ancu. There were other
seekers of ancu before him. He ends up in a bizarre court case in
America. He visits Disney World Animal kingdom and takes a ride on
the Kali River rapids. As the waters splash over him, he finds a
friend on the ride. That friend from Kidarankondan guides him through
the story of about seven millennia of people in search of ancu which
is called amsu in an old human document called the Rigveda. Sagan
finds the alchemical formula for making gold from mineral rocks of
Muztagh Ata.
S. Kalyanaraman
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