“Indus symbols and their Dravidian connections”
Chennai: Considering the vast area that covers
the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC),
many languages must have been spoken there. However, the Indus script, due to
its consistency in symbols, was likely to have been created by a single
linguistic community, according to Houston-based Tamil scholar Naga Ganesan.
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Since fish and crocodile played a major role in Indus astronomy, culture and
religion, they were represented in the Indus script. Harappans likely called
these signs as ‘min’ and ‘mokara/makara’
in their language. The word ‘simsumara’,
first referring to Gangetic dolphin by similarly with the gharial crocodile,
has a proto-Dravidian root.”, he said, while speaking on “Some k-initial
Dravidian loan words in Sanskrit;preliminary observations on the Indus
language”, at the Roja Muthiah Research Library in the city recently.
Ganesan said many vedic non-Aryan words have
been shown to be loans from Dravidian language of the Indus farming culture.
“There
is linguistic and archaeological evidence to support the view that the Indus
civilization is non-Aryan and pre-Aryan.”
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“The
long-snouted gharial seems to be the ultimate source for phallic symbol, the ‘lingam’.
In Tamil texts, vitankar means linga. Siva as a nude kamuka (erotic ascetic),
as well as crocodile. At places like Gudimallam, the phallic symbol represents
Varuna, the god of the littoral landscape of Sangam poetry”, he added.
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