Indians Civilization - The Mother of All Civilizations! Source:MTE #AIUFO Scientists have struggled for a very long time to decipher the Indus Valley script, and now it would seem they have finally made some remarkable progress. These scientists have also pointed out that alternative history author and researcher Graham Hancock was right and our history books need to be re-written! The Indus Valley script is one of the three oldest languages in the world. The language was spoken at least 4,000 years ago in what is now north-west India and the eastern part of Pakistan, and 130 years after the first details of this script came to light and at least 100 failed attempts to decode it, the Indus script remains undeciphered. Some have even suggested that it isnt a script and doesnt represent a language. Now according to India Today Mahesh Keshavam, Gangadhar Yadav and Akbar Patel have announced that theyve deciphered the Indus Valley script. Their task was made simple by the discovery of an Indian equivalent of the Rosetta Stone. For those who dont know, the Rosetta Stone, an ancient Pharaonic-Egypt decree discovered in the 18th century, helped decipher the ancient Egyptian script. The Indian equivalent of the Rosetta Stone, called the Naga Stone by the trio who discovered it, has a message from a king who lived many millennia ago, inscribed in three different scripts. One of these is the ancient Brahmi script, which as we all know, has been deciphered already. We discovered the Naga Stone in Nagaland, and hence the name, explained Mahesh. It appears to be a message from a local ruler, prescribing that a certain festival celebration be followed strictly. It has the same message in three different scripts, one of which is Brahmi, which we can read. Since the message is the same across the other scripts, it was a simple job of matching words to decipher the other scripts. Interestingly, all three scripts including Brahmi can be identified as Indus Valley scripts since they contain symbols commonly found in Indus Valley seals. The Indus script (which is a hieroglyphic script, like that of Mandarin) has largely been found to be inscribed on small seals that were probably used for trade and, some say, for inspirational quotes as well. Akbar said. What we have discovered is that there was not one uniform Indus Valley script. There were many, each differing from the other quite a degree, even if some of the symbols were similar. In fact, one of the scripts is even written right to left! The Indus Valley Script It is a common view among linguistic experts that there should be one standard Indus Valley script. It seemed logical as everything within the Indus Valley civilization seemed to be rigidly standardized, from the dimensions of the bricks used in construction to the broad layouts for cities. It appears that the linguistic experts were wrong. Different regions did use different scripts. But was the language common? Yes, the language was common even though the scripts were different, said Mahesh. And the language was Sanskrit. At the look of surprise on my face, Gangadhar stepped in. You know, explained Gangadhar, the practice of using the Devanagiri script for the Sanskrit language is a relatively recent phenomenon. In ancient times, many other scripts were used, including the Brahmi script. In fact, ancient manuscripts have been found in Kerala wherein Sanskrit had been written in the Malayalam script. So the idea of using different scripts for the same language is not new in India. Of course, originally, Sanskrit had no native script and was primarily an oral language. But this obviously raises questions about the version of history taught to us. We are taught that the Indus Valley people were Dravidians who were indigenous Indians. They were, apparently, overrun by Sanskrit-speaking Aryan invaders and pushed to the south. So how can the script of a defeated people be used for the language of the victors? If you read the message on the Naga Stone itself, said Akbar, your doubts will be cleared. There was no so-called Aryan invasion. Unbiased historians have always marvelled at this strange dichotomy in ancient Indian history-the Indus Valley civilisation, the largest, most urban and richest civilisation of its time, purportedly left behind no literature or markers of high culture; whereas the so-called Aryan invaders from Central Asia, who didnt build any great cities and were apparently barbaric warriors, left behind the largest body of literature when compared to any other people of the ancient world. The only logical explanation is that the Indus Valley civilization and the Vedic-erroneously called Aryan-civilization were one and the same. In India, the study of history is unfortunately heavily politicized, with left- and right-wing ideologues making arguments based on their ideological positions rather than facts, said Gangadhar. They both, sadly, allow their ideological leanings to cloud their thinking. Therefore, today, we have to turn to Westerners or non-professional Indian historians who are still untouched by the politics that plagues our history departments, to find unbiased interpretations of our history which are based on facts. Most Western historians have already junked the Aryan Invasion Theory as colonial-era, European myth-making. But the convincing proof is the Naga Stone itself. The message written on it is unambiguous. The local ruler of that time, Vasuki, said that the ancient Naga celebration of Panchami must be followed since it had come down to his people (whom he called Vedic people) from an ancient 10,000-year-old tradition from Sangam and Dwarka. Since the stone itself is at least 3,000 years old, it makes the mother cultures of Sangam and Dwarka more than 13,000 years old, that is, before the end of the last great ice age. But where were Sangam and Dwarka? We believe that Sangam refers to an ancient Tamil civilization and Dwarka to an ancient Gujarati one, said Akbar. It would seem that the British writer, Graham Hancock, was right. He had postulated that there were many ancient civilizations spread across the world before the end of the last great ice age, when the sea levels were a lot lower. Two of those civilizations were based in India -one off the coast of modern Tamil Nadu and another off the coast of modern Gujarat. These civilizations were destroyed when the ice age ended and the sea levels rose. The survivors escaped to the north and established what we call the Vedic civilization. So, according to Graham Hancock, the ancient Vedic civilisation descended from an even more ancient Tamil and Gujarati civilization. The Naga Stone has just confirmed this theory. Clearly, our history books need some rewriting!
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 23:01:24 +0000
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