http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/09/25/s...2551290700.htm
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http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/09/25/s...2551290700.htm
From a bygone era
Iravatham Mahadevan had a piece in the Hindu a few days ago, titled "An epigraphic perspective on the antiquity of Tamil." It's a wonderful overview of how the discovery of the Tamil Brahmi script has changed our understanding of the past:
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article482654.ece
This bit was news to me:
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Originally Posted by Iravatham Mahadevan
Thank You podalai.
I didn't quite understand Parpola's article though. I mean, what the significance of this is, in the whole scheme of things.
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Originally Posted by Punnaimaran
Dr Max Muller had proved authentically that there was never a Human-race named as "Dravidian Race" nor Dravidian Culture anywhere in the world.Quote:
“The discovery of the symbols are akin to that of the Harappan civilisation having predominantly Dravidian culture and testimony to the fact that cultural diffusion could take place. It is wrong to presume that the Indus culture disappeared into thin air,” Mr. Varier said.
And the origin of all Indians belong to ONE HUMAN-RACE called Aryans of One Vedic-Culture spread over the whole ancient Bharatha which was named Bharatha varsha--
--which was spread over a vast area of the present countries, Afganisthan, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Srilanka, Morecius, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia regions--
--as categorically established by analytical research on archaleogical sites at about 2500 locations in addition to Mahenjadaro and Harappa.
Archologically the findings at all these locations belong to One and the same Culture of One Human Race named Arya.--
The name Dravida means mainly the Language Tamil as called by others and not a separate Race nor Culture different from one Homogeneous ancient Vedic culture...
--of one and the same ancient Human-race spread over the whole region of Bharatha-Varsha land, as detailed above.
No doubt there existed two groups of Scripts Epigraphically called as Brahmi and Vattezhuthu (ancient Tamil Script)
British made Indian History is false " established Dr Max muller.
Such an argument of Max muller was accepted by Dr Ambedkar too and could not be further refuted by British Historians
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Sudhaama, the jury is still out on the script decipherment. The issue is far far from settled with claims, counterclaims and all.The thread is about news and updates on the progress in research in this field.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sudhaama
sorry but some postings here are simply :rotfl3:
Ariyar, Dravidar, Tamilar, singalavar, vellaiiyar , karupar all man made. There is no meaning to it. Race, Cast, Religion all made by the 'Mad humans'.
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. Why named BRAHMI.?
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Originally Posted by Sudhaama
And, two years later, a follow up:
As you'll remember, the original article related to the excavation of a grave at Porunthal, where they'd found a jar with paddy, beads, stirrups and two inscribed ring-stands which read "vayra" in Tamil Brahmi. Well, according to the Hindu, they've now dated the paddy in the jars excavated at Porunthal and it's been dated to 490 BC.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper...cle2407358.ece
As the Hindu points out, this is potentially revolutionary. As people who've been following this thread know, the Brahmi script is generally taken to have originated at Asoka's court. If the dating is correct, then we have here an example of Brahmi writing from well over 200 years before Asoka's time. There's no sign that the grave's ever been excavated earlier - the site looks like a one-time burial, so if the paddy's from 490BC, then so is the inscription (we can, I think, safely discount the possibility that they just happened to have 300-year old grains lying around at the time of the funeral).
As the Hindu reports, the excavators of the site, and people like Professor Chakrabarti (Cambridge) are taking this finding very seriously, while others are a little more cautious. It's too early to tell either way, but it'll be interesting to see how this finding develops. It's worth mentioning that there's previously been an inscription found at Anuradhapuram that was dated to a pre-Asokan period, but everyone assumed something had gone wrong with the dating. And the Late Dr. Gift Siromoney had, of course, spent much of his career arguing for a South Indian origin of Brahmi, as we've discussed a few pages back on this thread.