Dear friends,

I have done some research and have found some, though not
comprehensive, online resource, which will help us to better
understand the complicated relationships between the Indian
languages, particularly between Pali and its 'relative' languages.

Here are two very good resources on Indus Valley script, a script
that archaelogists, historians, scientists, and even computer
engineers are trying to decipher. It is believed to be the possible
proto-Indo-European language, the ancestor of the modern languages of
(western) Europe as well as Sanskrit.

The Indus Valley is known to be the craddle of the Indian
civilisation, as the Yellow River is to the Chinese and the Nile to
the Egyptians.

1. http://www.harappa.com
2. http://www.indusscript.net

Here is a good book about the Edicts of King Asoka by Ven. S.
Dhammika. The script used on the edicts is known to be the Brahmi
script.

http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma/asoka.html

Here is some information about the Brahmi script.

http://indoeuro.bizland.com/project/script/brahm.html

There are more information on web, and can be reached using Yahoo! It
will be great if someone will take up the study of Sakaaya
Niruttiyaa, and write a book about it one day.

Metta,
Yong Peng.