Indian Hieroglyphs - Invention of Writing

A game-changer on study of ancient civilizations and evolution of writing systems in bronze-age. The underlying language was Meluhha (Mleccha).

Presenting evidence of over 6000 inscriptions, Indus Script is decoded as hieroglyphic.

Vivid graphics were used, pictures were embellished with ligatures to convey specific technical meanings related to bronze-age metallurgy. Messages recorded the repertoire of artisans, lapidaries and smiths who had started working with minerals and metals together with shell, ivory, semi-precious stones to make and to trade in ornaments, tools and weapons. The vast interaction region across Ancient Near East and Indian subcontinent was Harosheth Hagoyim, smithy of nations .

The book links the invention of writing to the inventions of
bronze-age technologies.

Indus script is claimed to be one of the earliest writing systems of
the world dated to c. 3500 BCE.

The book claims that Indian language union (sprachbund or Indian
linguistic area) dates back to the period when Indus script was used.
About 1000 lexemes of Meluhha (mleccha) have been identified and
explained in the context of ciphertext of Indian hieroglyphs. These
substratum glosses are the foundation for further studies in the
evolution of languages and linguistic features absorbed from one
another, in Indian language union (sprachbund).

Using evidence from almost all hieroglyphs in the 6000 + inscriptions,
this book makes a contribution to an understanding of the middle phase
in evolution of writing systems, a phase which bridged pictographic
writing with syllabic writing to represent sounds of a language called
meluhha (mleccha) in Indian language union - lingua franca of
Harosheth hagoyim, smithy of nations.

The continuum of hieroglyph tradition in Indian linguistic area is
evaluated in the context of continued use of Indian hieroglyphs on
thousands of punch-marked coins together with syllabic scripts of
kharosti and brahmi .

The book establishes that ancient India was a language union with
speakers of Munda, Dravidian and Indo-Aryan languages learning
technical words related to bronze-age metallurgy from one another.
They used these words in the writing system.

The book draws heavily from a multi-lingual dictionary of over 25
ancient languages called Indian Lexicon for unraveling the cipher of
the Indus script, as an exercise in solving a cryptography problem.

The writing system was called mlecchita vikalpa (Cryptography of
Meluhhas/Mlecchas) and is mentioned in an 8th century BCE work by
Vatsyayana. The Indian hieroglyphs find their echoes in the goat-fish
hieroglyphs on a ritual basin of Uruk (Sumer) and the Egyptian
hieroglyph for Bat showing a mudhif reed symbol which also occurs on
Uruk basin. The 'reed' read rebus denotes Glyph: eruva 'reed'. Rebus:
eruva 'copper'. Also discussed are some Egyptian hieroglyph parallels
from the statue of Hathor-Menkaure-Bat triad of the fourth dynasty and
the continued tradition of building reed huts by Todas comparable to
the mudhifs of ancient Sumer.

This book is a sequel to the author's Indus Script Cipher (2010).
http://tinyurl.com/7dflhyq ISBN: 9780982897126

Hard copy (paperback) is available at http://tinyurl.com/7y8cveb

Author Dr. S. Kalyanaraman is Director, Sarasvati Research Center, President,
Ramasetu Protection Movement in India and BoD member of World
Association for Vedic Studies. He is a multi-lingual scholar versed in
Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Sanskrit, Hindi. He was a senior financial and
IT executive in Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines and on
Indian Railways. He has a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the
University of the Philippines. His 18 publications include: Indian Lexicon - a
multilingual dictionary for over 25 Indian languages, Sarasvati in 15
volumes, Indian Alchemy - Soma in the Veda, Indus Script Cipher,
Rastram. He is a recipient of many awards including Vakankar Award
(2000), Shivananda Eminent Citizens' Award (2008) and Dr. Hedgewar
Prajna Sa