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Vedic Sarasvati Civilization

-- Ancient Maritime Tin RouteS. Kalyanaraman

Sarasvati Research Center

June 3, 2016

Acknowledgements: Dr TKV Rajan, India ScienceMonitor, Professor Raghu Veera, and ASI.

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of our philosophy, mother through thArabs, much of our mathematics. Mothrough Buddha of the ideals embodChristianity, mother through village

community of self government anddemocracy. Mother of India is in manthe mother of us all "- Will Durant,American Historian and Philosopher

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Indian cultural zone. Dark orange: The Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan,Lanka, Maldives, Nepal and Bhutan). Light orange: Southeast Asia culturally notably Burma, Thiland, Cambodia, Laos, Champa (SouthernVietnam), Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore. Yellow: Regions with scultural influence, notably, Afghanistan, China's Yunnan and Tibet provinces

the Philippines.6/3/2016



Importance of tin in Bronze Age revolut

Sumerian copper dagger (c. 2500 BCE)

Tin alloyed with soft copper to create hatypically 88% copper (Cu) and 12% tin (S

Distribution of economic tin deposits located

in Thailand (After Fig. 13 in Anna TN Bennett

et al, 2006, Archaeometallurgical challenge is

to evaluate the possible exploitation of thie Tin

belt resource in Trans-Asiatic tin exchange

along a Maritime Tin Road of ca. 5th

millennium BCE.6/3/2016



Tin Route in Ancient Near East

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Ancient Maritime Routes in Asia

Haifa tin ingot

Script inscribed

with a mouldedHaifa (Artzy, 1

53). Tin ingots

shipwreck in H6/3/2016



Ancient Maritime Routes of Far East d' xtrê

rient

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Largest tin granite belt of the globe (MekonMalaysia)

In Indonesia, tin is mined onBangka Island ("Tin Island") offthe southeastern coast ofSumatra. Mining pits seen in

landscape. Pit tin mine.6/3/2016

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Bronze Age sites of FarAustro-Asiatic speakers

Pinnow-map of Austro-Asiaticlanguage speakershttp://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/stamp

e/aa.htmlBronze Age sites of eastern Bha_rata and

neighbouring areas: 1. Koldihwa; 2.

Khairdih; 3. Chirand; 4. Mahisadal; 5. Pandu

Rajar Dhibi; 6. Mehrgarh; 7. Harappa; 8.

Mohenjo-daro; 9. Ahar; 10.Kayatha; 11.

Navdatoli; 12. Inamgaon; 13. Non Pa Wai;

14. Nong Nor; 15. Ban Na Di and Ban

Chiang; 16. Non Nok Tha; 17. Thanh Den;18. Shizhaishan; 19. Ban Don Ta Phet [After

Fig. 8.1 in: Charles Higham, 1996, The

Bronze Age of Southeast Asia, Cambridge

University Press].

Some Bronze Age sites, Far East. (After Fig.

2.2 in Higham, Charles, 1996, The bronze

age of Southeast Asia, Cambridge Univ.

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http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/stampe/aa.html






ent stry pract ce n arat years agoPublished in Nature, Scientific magazine fromAmerica.

An experimental reconstruction of a bow and flint-tipped drill used to bore thrteeth found at a Neolithic graveyard in Mehrgarh, Pakistan. - See more at: httporigins.net/human-origins-science/jewel-capped-teeth-golden-bridges-9000-y

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Dentistry in Mahabharata

Dentistry as portrayed in the epic ofmahabharata • Lord Krishna in

mahabharata wanted to test the“danaveerata” of dying Karna in the battle field of Kurukshetra. Disguised as brahmin, Krishna asks for gold indonation & Karna proves his worth bydonating his gold filled tooth . this part of

the epic indicates the existence ofdentistry even around 2500 bce, whereindefective teeth were restored with gold.5. Sushruta, the great surgeon of ancientIndia; taught dentistry scientifically at

Kashi, about 600 B.C.E6/3/2016

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Bhishma’s demise Magha Shukla Ashtami RohinBalarama returns after Sarasvati Pariyatra –Dec3067 BCE

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Lahuradewa

excavation

Remains of rice on

the pottery

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Lahuradewaexcavation

Earliest rice

eaters of theworld !

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Great Bath from Mohenjo-daro

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Indus Valley excavated houses with toilet



Indus Valley excavated houses with toiletsystem.

Almost every house unitat Mohenjo-daro wasequipped with a privatebathing area with drainsto take the dirty waterout into a larger drainthat emptied into asewage drain. Many ofthese bathing areas hadwater tight floors tokeep moisture fromseeping into the otherrooms nearby.

Bathing area, HarappaDK1 Area 82

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Hygienic toilets



Hygienic toilets

First Urban hygienic toilets from India, 50

ago! Bathing platform, Mohenjo-daro

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Dock yard from Lothal.Greatest work of

marine architecturebefore Christ

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Dwaraka, marine archaeology

Reconstruction of a submerged cit

S’ankha seal with Indus Script hierS’ankha (turbinella pyrum) is the stune of unique Indian Ocean prod

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Dwaraka: A



Dwaraka: Aprismatic stoneanchor A-4, A-%

DWK; Largebastion at buoy 8in Zone 1-DWK

A large wallbetween buoysA13 and S12DWK

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Secrets of Gulf of Khambat

(Cambay)

kammaTa means ‘mint,

coinage, coiner’

Bharuch (BhRgukaccha was

an ancient trading port)

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Nausharo sindhur on māng terracotta toys, yoga posture toys of ca.

of s’ankha ca. 6500 BCE; s’ankha-cutter using 25 kg bronze saw evide

continuum of Bhāratam Janam whose parole (speech) was Prākritam

Mehergarh. Burial ornaments made of shelland stone disc beads, and turbinella pyrum

(sacred conch, s’an:kha) bangle, TombMR3T.21, Mehrgarh, Period 1A, ca. 6500 BCE.The nearest source for this shell is Makrancoast near Karachi, 500 km. South. [AfterFig. 2.10 in Kenoyer, 1998]. S’ankha widebangle and other ornaments, c. 6500 BCE(burial of a woman at Nausharo).

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Ayurvedainstrumentsfrom Tibetanmanuscripts

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Yogasana posturesfrom Tibetan texts !

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Banawali excavation -2

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Ramasethu: Setubandha in sculpture, Parambanan,

Indonesia Vanara build the Setu

n ancient map drawn by Schwarzburg Uchicago refers to

dam’s bridge as Setubandha based on ancient texts

Ramayana ballets, puppet shows daily in Indonesia

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A New story of Alexander & Porus ( painting



A New story of Alexander & Porus ( paintingof Porus who hands over a sword to Alexander

King Purushottama (Porus) presents Indian ukku (wootz -- Telugu) steel swor

Alexander in the battle on River Hydaspes (Jhelum, Vitasta) Painting in SAIL,

Another painting on same episode.

Intermixed ferrite and cementite alloys in the crucible steel of South India, 6

BCE6/3/2016



Indian origin of bronze peacocks and

Pinecone in Vatican taken from an a

temple for Isis

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Sarasvati-Sindhu civilization sites: Landsat im



Sarasvati Sindhu civilization sites: Landsat imshows bheda of River Sarasvati at Anupgarh(Binjor)

Dr. S. Kalyanaraman

Sarasvati Research CenterD

Sa

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Cosmic dance: Dynamic Himalayas



y yPlate tectonics; the Indian plate ismoving northwards 6 cm per year andand lifting up the Eurasian platecreating the Himalayan ranges fromHanoi to Teheran growing 1 cm everyyear. Rriver migrations caused by suchsuch tectonics explain the desiccationof Vedic River Sarasvati. Two glacialriver tributaries migrated: Yamunawent eastwards, Sutlej wentwestwards deserving Sarasvati river.Growing Himalayas constitute theGreatest Water Tower of the globe

yielding 10 grea perennial rivers.6/3/2016

अुरा दद ेवत दमलयो नम नगदरजः। ौ ो द ी द द



ु पवूपरौ तोयदनी दवग िथतः पृिद इव मनणः॥ १-१astyuttarasyāṁ diśi devatātmā himālayo nāma nagādhirājaḥ |pūrvāparau toyanidhī vigāhya sthitaḥ pṛthivyā iva mānadaṇḍaḥ || 1-1 (KalidasaKumarasambhavam) The world’s greatest, growing water tower serving 2 billionperennial rivers – the ranges stretch from Hanoi, Vietnam to Teheran, Iran – like

of the earth.On the northe

this country t

heartland of d

intercalating h

eastern and wlike a measuri

earth, there s

sovereign of s

mountains re

Himalaya. [1-16/3/2016

Mt K il ith M i f thill Si i t



Mt. Kailas with Manasarovar in foothills. Siva is waterdivinity yields Ganga from his JaTa hair locks. Hence, venerated with 24x7 abhishekam in Jyotirlinga Sthan

unite Bharatam Janam, people of the sub-continent

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Epicenter of the civilization was Sarasvati river b



Epicenter of the civilization was Sarasvati river baccounting for 80% i.e. 2000 of the 2600 sites oCivilization. So, it is right to rename as Sarasvati

civilization

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Rakhigarhi cylinder seal (Ri21):aya, ayo 'fish' rebus: aya 'iron' ayas 'metal';karA 'crocodile'rebus khAr 'blacksmith' dATu 'cross' rebus dhAtu



karA 'crocodile'rebus:khAr 'blacksmith' dATu 'cross' rebus: dhAtu'ore,mineral' śrētrī ʻ ladder ʼ.rebus: seṭṭhin -- m. ʻ guild -- master (Pali) sal'splinter' rebus: sal 'workshop'.

Rakhigarhi seal (Ri18): seafaring metals merchant

kol ‘tiger’ (Santali); kollan ‘blacksmith’ (Ta.) kod. ‘horn’; kod. ‘artisan’sworkshop’ PLUS śagaḍī = lathe (Gujarati) san:gaḍa, ‘lathe, portablefurnace’ rebus: cargo boat. gaNDa 'four' Rebus: khaNDa 'metalimplements' aya 'fish' Rebus: aya 'iron' ayas 'metal' aDaren 'lid' Rebus:aduru 'native metal‘ Hieroglyph: sal 'splinter' Rebus: sal 'workshop'

ayo khambhaṛā 'fish-fin', ayas 'metal' PLUS kammaTa 'mint' Thus, metalmint . dhāˊtu strand Rebus: mineral: dhāˊtu n. ʻ substance ʼ RV., m. ʻelement ʼ MBh., ʻ metal, mineral, ore (esp. of a red colour) ʼ S. dhāī f. ʻwisp of fibres added from time to time to a rope that is being twisted ʼ,L. dhāī˜ f. (CDIAL 6773).

Co er mirror Rakhi arhi6/3/2016

Map showing the bird's foot palaeo-delta complex representing the moui id ifi d Sh d (H k ) S i d D i h d i ( f li



rivers identified as Shatadru (Hakra), Saraswati and Drishadvati (after aliFig. 3 in: Roy, AB & SR Jakhar, Late quaternary drainage disorganization, a

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Rakhigarhi the largest site 350 hectares was on the Sarasvati river system (tribmentioned in Rigveda) Indications of seafaring trade with Ancient Near East



mentioned in Rigveda). Indications of seafaring trade with Ancient Near East. found in Rakhigarhi: ayakara ‘metalsmith’ aya, ayo ‘fish’ rebus: ayas ‘metal’ karebus: khAr ‘blacksmith’ karibha ‘trunk of elephant’ rebus: karba ‘iron’ ibha ‘e‘elephant’. So, Sarasvati was a navigable channel from Rakhigarhi to Mesopot

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Rosetta stone which validates Indus Script Ciphe



p pTin ingots in the Museum of Ancient Art of the Municipality of Haifa, Israel (left #8251, right #each bear two inscribed Cypro-Minoan markings. (Note: I have argued that the inscriptions whieroglyphs (Indus writing) denoting ranku 'tin' dhatu 'ore'. See: The Bronze Age Writing SysteHieroglyphics as Evidenced by Two “Rosetta Stones” By S. Kalyanaraman in: Journal of Indo-JuStudies Volume 1: Number 11 (2010), pp. 47-74.)

ranku 'liquid measure'; ranku 'antelope' Rebus: ranku 'tin' (Santali) dhatu 'cross' Rebus: dhatu(Santali).

• Hieroglyph: ran:ku = liquid measure (Santali) Rebus: ran:ku = tin (Santali)

• Hieroglyph: ran:ku a species of deer; ran:kuka (Skt.)(CDIAL 10559).

• Hieroglyph: dāṭu = cross (Telugu) Rebus: dhatu = mineral (Santali)

• Hindi. dhāṭnā ‘ to send out, pour out, cast (metal)’ (CDIAL 6771).

These two hieroglyphs were inscribed on two tin ingots discovered in port of Dor south of Haiancient shipwreck.

Inscribed tin ingot with a moulded head, from Haifa (Artzy, 1983: 53). (Michal Artzy, 1983, AreIngot, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, BASOR 250, pp. 51-55) An additon this third tin ingot is : human face. Hieroglyph: mũhe ‘face’ (Santali) Rebus: mũh ‘ingot’ (Saopening or hole (in a stove for stoking (Bi.); ingot (Santali) mũh metal ingot (Santali) mũhã̄ = tiron produced at one time in a native smelting furnace of the Kolhes; iron produced by the Kolike a four-cornered piece a little pointed at each end; mūhā mẽṛhẽt = iron smelted by the Ko

into an equilateral lump a little pointed at each of four ends; kolhe tehen mẽṛhẽt ko mūhā akhave to-da roduced i iron Santali .6/3/2016

Dong Son Bronze drums with Indus Script:



g pMaritimeTin Route

Kur. mūxā frog. Malt. múqe id. / Cf. Skt. mūkaka- id. (DEDR 5023) Rebus: mũh ‘ingot’ (M

the quantity of iron produced at one time in a native smelting furnace of the Kolhes; iron p

Kolhes and formed like a four-cornered piece a little pointed at each end; mūhā mẽṛhẽt = i

the Kolhes and formed into an equilateral lump a little pointed at each of four ends; kolhe

mūhā akata = the Kolhes have to-day produced pig iron (Santali) muhA 'the quantity of iro

time in a native smelting furnace' (Santali. Campbell)6/3/2016

Indian Remote Sensing IRS



gWide-Field Sensor (WiFS)image showingpalaeochannel signature --From Himalayas to Rann ofof Kutch, Gujarathttps://www.academia.edu/9339358/RIVER_SARASWATI_AN_INTEGRATED_STUDY_BASED_ON_REMOTE _SENSING_and_GIS_TECHNIQUES_Prepared_By_Reg

ional_Remote_Sensing_Centre_RRSC-W RiverSaraswati: an integratedstudy based on remotesensing & GIS techniques(RRSC, JodhpurJuly 2014)

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Satellite image shows plate tectonics causing Y

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g p gtear at Paonta Saheb resulting in migration of Yeastwards thru the tear, deserting Sarasvati

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Sut ej was owing sout wards into Sarasvatat Shatrana (width of river Sarasvati 20 kms



at Shatrana (width of river Sarasvati 20 kmsPlate tectonics resulted in Sutlej migrationwestwards at Ropar abandoning Sarasvati R

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Clusters of sites in Cholistan and Rann of Ku

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Clusters of sites in Cholistan and Rann of Kuroute to Ancient Near East thru Persian Gulf

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Aryan Invasion Theory is false Migrations fr



Aryan Invasion Theory is false. Migrations frSarasvati valley (Baudhayana Srautasutra)

"Translation of BSS XIII.

migrated eastwards. His (

the Kuru-Pancalas and thVidehas. This is the Ayav

Amavasu migrated westw

(people) are the Ghandha

Aratta. This is the Amava

(migration).

"According to the correct

there was no movement o

people from anywhere inwest. On the other hand, t

indicates that it was from

intermediary point that so

Aryan tribes went eastwa

westwards.

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2000 old

tradingwithRome &

Italy

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Pompuhar excavation

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Poompuhar wharf and Banawali excavation



Poompuhar wharf and Banawali excavationBanawali mound

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Gola Dhoro, Arikamedu,Pattinam lapidary crafts

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Grey potterywith



withengravingsfound at the

Arikamedu

Brick Jetty,Kaveripattinam

excavation

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Wine jars from rikamedu-Pattina

( mphora jars )

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W hi f S’i li H M h j



Worship of S’ivalinga, Harappa, Mohenj

Tre-foil inlay decorated base (for linga icon?); smoothed, polished pedestal of

Museum of Pakistan, Karachi; After Mackay 1938: I, 411; II, pl. 107:35; Parpo

Two decorated bases and a lingam, Mohenjodaro.

Lingam, grey sandstone in situ, Harappa, Trench A

(After Vats). "In an earthenware jar, No. 12414, rec

Trench IV, Square I... in this jar, six lingams were f

tiny pieces of shell, a unicorn seal, an oblong grey

polished surface, five stone pestles, a stone palettechalcedony..." (Vats, MS, 1940, Excavations at Ha

370) "In the adjoining Trench Ai, 5 ft. 6 in. below

stone lingam [Since then I have found two stone li

size from Trenches III and IV in this mound. Both

over]. It measures 11 in. high and 7 3/8 in. diamete

all over.’ (Vol. I, pp. 51-52)." Shiva Lingas at Hara

5,000 years old. Worship of Sivalingam has contin

uninterrupted.

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दवशदम रकदत बहेा भरतम जनम (RV 3.



श रक त बह रत ् ् ( य इमे रोसी उभे अा इा अतुवा दवशदम रकदत बहेा भरता जनम्ya ime rodasī ubhe aham indram atuṣṭavam |

viśvāmitrasya rakṣati brahmedam bhārataṃ janam || (RV 3.53.12)

Translation (Sayana, Wilson): I have made Indra glorified by these two, heaven and earth, anViśvāmitra protects the race of Bharata. [Made Indra glorified: indram atus.t.avam-- the verbof the casual, I have caused to be praised; it may mean: I praise Indra, abiding between heavethe firmament].

भरत (p. 603) [ bharata ] n A factitious metal compounded of copper, pewter, tin &c भरती (p.] a Composed of the metal भरत . भरतच भाड ( p. 603) [ bharatācē mbhāṇḍēṃ ] n A vessel ma2 See भरतच भाड. (Marathi)

Thus, भरतम् जनम् can also be translated as ‘metalcaster folk ’. The decipherment of Indus S

shows that the language spoken by people was Prakritam (Mleccha, spoken form of chandasliterary, grammatical form)

The metalcaster folk, भरतम् जनम् were Sarasvati’s children, and ancestors, pitr-s of present-

Identity of the founders of the civilization is firmly proved as भरतम् जनम् . The language thPrakritam, the mother of all present-day languages of भरतम् जनम् -- all Aryan, Dravidian anstreams flow from this Indian language union called sprachbund .(linguistic area).

This finding nails the falsehood of Aryan-Munda-Dravidian language divide.6/3/2016

Dh l i l ti

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Dholaviar - location

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Dholavira - fascinating ancient city of India -1



reconstruction

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Dholavira fascinating



gancient city of India -2

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Dholavira – fascinating ancient city of India-3Si b d t t tt t bl t ith i



Signboard on gateway; terracotta tablet with ins

Crystalline material used to create these 10

hieroglyphs are comparable to the mother-of-

pearl inlays of the Gujarati tray sold in anauction on Oct. 6, 2015, which is a continuum

of inlay engraving work of Sarasvati-Sindhu

civilization artisans, evidenced on the Dholavira

Sign Board. The Sign board measuring 3 metres

or 9.8 feet long with 15 inch high hieroglyphs

and once mounted on the northern gateway toDholavira city citadel, is the world's first known

advertisement hoarding in Sarasvati Sindhu

(Hindu) civilization.

Dholavira Sign boa

gate to announce tseafarers: molten cmint, moltencast conative-metalwork, caster-mineral-smit

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Chanhu daro Sheffield of Ancient Bhar



Chanhu-daro, Sheffield of Ancient Bhar

Sheffield of Ancient Near East. Metalware

catalog in London News Illustrated, November

21, 1936.

Bronze cire perdue statue of a woman holding

a lamp: Mohenjo-daro

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G RUD INSCRIPTION OF BESN G R



- Earliest religious conversion in India. How the Greeks

devotees of Lord Krishna.

A reproduction of the inscription, along with thetranslation of the ancient Brahmi text, is given hthe Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.

1) Devadevasu Va[sude]vasa Garudadhvajo ayam2) Karito ia Heliodorena bhaga3) Vatena Diyasa putrena Takhasilakena4) Yonadatena agatena maharajasa5) Amtalikitasa upa[m]ta samkasam-rano6) Kasiput[r]asa [Bh]agabhadrasa tratarasa7) Vasena [chatu]dasena rajena vadhamanasa" This Garuda-column of Vasudeva (Visnu), the gerected here by Heliodorus, a worshipper of Vishand an inhabitant of Taxila, who came as Greek aGreat King Antialkidas to King Kasiputra Bhagabthen reigning prosperously in the fourteenth yea1) Trini amutapadani-[su] anuthitani

2) nayamti svaga damo chago apramado"Three immortal precepts (footsteps)..when practiced lead

to heaven-self restraint charity conscientiousness "

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Binjor (Anupgarh), fire-altar; octagonal linga, Nepal--a yaṣṭi यद made of an octagonal brick; Binjor seal, zebu (

http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.com/2015/12/yastifound-in-fire-altars-of-sarasvati.html




y ṣṭ g ; j , (statue) were discovered in March 2015

gaNDa 'four' Rebus: khaNDa 'metal implements'

aya ancu khaNDa 'metallic iron alloy implements'.

koḍi ‘flag’ (Ta.)(DEDR 2049). Rebus 1: koḍ ‘workshop’ (Ku2: khŏḍ m. ‘pit’, khö̆ḍü f. ‘small pit’ (Kashmiri. CDIAL 3947

करण m. a sort of duck -- f. ʻ a partic. kind of bird ʼ; S. kara

ḍhī˜gu m. ʻ a very large aquatic bird ʼ(CDIAL

2787) Rebus: karaḍā 'hard alloy'

kõda 'young bull, bull-calf' rebus: kõdā 'to turn in a lathe'; kō

lapidary'; kundār 'turner'.

Hieroglyph: sghāṛɔ 'lathe'.(Gujarati) Rebus: sangara 'proclairon alloy implements, hard alloy workshop'

Aya ‘ metal’ ̄ s (amśu) ‘stalks’ Rebus: aya ‘metal’ ancu ‘ir

पोळ (p. 534) [ pōḷa ] Zebu, m A bull dedicated to the gods, marked with a trident

set at large (Marathi) Rebus: pōḷa ’magnetite ferrite ore’.6/3/2016

19 Yupa inscriptions of Bharatam and East Borneo ar








continuum of Vedic tradition of octagonal yupa found

The structure of the octagonal yupa signifying Vajapeya Soma yaga incl

octagonal चषलः caṣāla signified by the hour-glass-shaped VajraCommemorative stone yupa, Isapur – from Vogel, 1910-11,

drawing based on Vedic texts – from Madeleine Biardeau, 1

cf. 1989, fig. 2); C. Miniature wooden yupa and caSAla from

Samsodana Mandala Museum of Vedic sacrificial utensils –

Dharmadhikari 1989, 70) (After Fig. 5 in Alf Hiltebeitel, 19

Draupadi, Vol. 2, Univ. of Chicago Press, p.22)

Isapur Yupa inscription (102 CE, dated in year 24 in KushanVasishka's reign) indicates performance of a sattra (yajna) o

'twelve nights'. (Vogel, JP, The sacrificial posts of Isapur, An

the Archaeological Survey of India, 1910-11: 40-8).The Isap

comparable to the ring and vajra atop

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Satapatha Brahmana on Vajapeya Soma YagSBr elucidates the process using wheat chaff as चषलः caṣāla the metaphor is ascent on Yupa to heave



SBr. elucidates the process using wheat chaff as चषलः caṣāla, the metaphor is ascent on Yupa to heave

5.2.1• .[12] atha godhūmānupaspṛśati | svardevā aganmeti svarhyeṣa gacati yo vājapeyen

5:2:1:1212. He then touches the wheat (top-piece) 2, with, 'We have gone to the light, O yoffers the Vâgapeya, indeed goes to the light.

5.2.1.[13] tadyadgodhūmānupaspṛśati | annaṃ vai godhūmā annaṃ vā eṣa ujjayati yo v'nnapeyaṃ ha vai nāmaitadyadvājapeyaṃ

tadyadevaitadannamudajaiṣīttenaivaitadetāṃ• gatiṃ gatvā saṃspṛśatetadātmankurute tasmādgodhūmānupaspṛśati

5:2:1:1313. And as to why he touches the wheat: wheat is food, and he who offers the Vâ j

vâga-peya is the same as anna-peya (food and drink): thus whatever food he has thereby wthat he has gone to that supreme goal, he puts himself in contact, and possesses himself otouches the wheat (top-piece).

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Early vedic sacrifices found in excavations

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pottery assignable to circa first century B.C. E to second century ADcopper coin of Kuninda and other material i.e. ash, bone pieces etcgold leaf impressed with a human figure tentatively identified as Agbeen recovered from the central chamber. See Bijnor discovery of Sca. 2500 BCE Vedic Sarasvati River Basin

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sings in Sanskritin clubs !

Sa Dingding

playing during aconcert.

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Sanskrit Mantras in a Chinese King’s kitc



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Administrative law books found in SE As



Administrative law books found in SE As

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First Constitution of Japan from India



First Constitution of Japan from India

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Gayatri mantra inManchuria

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Yoga vasasitha

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Rahaman were taking part in the traditio

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Royal couple is anointed with herbs and

of the many rituals and celebrations. tra

leading up to the culmination of wedding ceremony

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Bank, Jakarta Arjuna Wijaya

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Angkorwat largest Vishnu temple on theglobe



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Bangkok compared with Ellora painting

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Ganesa in S E Asia:

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Ganesha: Sandstone,7th century: Ganesha,was found on KhongIsland in Siphandon,

an area in the farsouth of Laos

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20000 Rupiah note shows Vidya Ganeshwith a school classroom on the obverse



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Yoga (arrangement) 11. Atideśa (indication) 21. Anumata (concession) Niyoga / sann

Hetvārtha (extention of argument) 13. Atideśa (indication) 21. Vyākhyāna (explanation) Vikalpana (op

Padārtha (import of words) 14. Nirṇaya (decision) 21. Samśaya (doubt) Pratyutsāra /

Pradeśa (poetic adumbration) 15. Prasaṅga (restatement) 21. Atītāpekṣaṇa / atītavekṣaṇa (retrospective

reference)

Uddhāra (rea

Uddheśa (concise statement) 16. Ekānta (categorical statement) 21. Anāgatāvekṣaṇa (prospective reference) Sambhava (po

Nirdeśa (amplification) 17. Naikānta / anekānta / anekārtha

(comprising statement)

21. Svasaṁjñā (technical nomenclature) 37 Paripraśna

Vākyaśeṣa (supply of ellipsis) 18. Apavarga / apavarja (exception) 21. Ūhya (deduction) 38 Vyākaraṇa

Prayojana (purpose) 18. Viparyaya (opposite) 29 Samuccaya (specification) 39 Vyutk

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