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Topic: Why i am wrong about the Aryan InvasionPosted: 21-Mar-2008 at 15:57 |
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One of the prime achievements of the IVC people were their system of weights and measures. These weights and measures found in Lothal are the same ones which Kautilya has defined in his Arthashastra ![]() -Source-
Bernard Sergent: Genèse de lInde, p. 1 13. |
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bilal_ali_2000
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Posted: 21-Mar-2008 at 16:02 |
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Most Pakistanis would have played the game of Pittu Garam in their childhood. You bunch together a series of graduated slates into a pile. A player then hold a ball and aims at them. When he disturbe them all the other players run. It is the task of the other players to regather the slates into a pile before the attacker player hits them with the ball. I am not sure about the details (as i played it last a long time ago) but that is the general idea. From the Indus sites these slates haev been found in graduated sizes as used in the game of Pittu Garam still played in Pakistan.
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Posted: 21-Mar-2008 at 16:07 |
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Here is a sindor like pigment in the concerned place in a female Terracotta figurines
![]() Here is a modern North Indian womanwaering sindoor
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Posted: 21-Mar-2008 at 16:21 |
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Here is criss cross field pattern for growing crops as seen in Mohenjodaro from 2000 B.C
![]() Here is the same pattern as seen i a modern field in North India ans a practice which is till seen in Pakistan and India. I myself have seen these patterns all throughout my life here in Pakistan.
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Posted: 21-Mar-2008 at 16:24 |
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Here is a figurine excavated from Mohenjodaro in a seemingly greeting position
![]() This tradition still survives till today in moden India. Here are men gretting eachother today
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Posted: 21-Mar-2008 at 16:52 |
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Here is the picture of the priest king from Mohnejodaro wearing floral carved shawl
![]() Here is modern Sindhi ajrak (Mohenjodaro is in Sindh)
![]() Here is Munir Niazi a famous Pakistani poet wearing an Ajrak
Here is more elaborately carved ajrak
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Posted: 21-Mar-2008 at 17:11 |
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Here are some religious brahmin statues tieing their hair in a bun at the back of their heads. The buns have fallen off but the ribbon which tied the hair at the back in visible
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Posted: 22-Mar-2008 at 04:48 |
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Fascinating. How do we know the age of this linga? What is the source that it came from IVC and specifically which strata of IVC? |
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Posted: 22-Mar-2008 at 04:52 |
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Would you know if someone has done the analysis of the sindoor and tried to date it independendently? Because if they are vegetable colours Carbon dating should be possible. What is the source of the sindoor figurines? Did the original excavator mentions sindoor in his/her reports? |
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Posted: 22-Mar-2008 at 17:50 |
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Here are the bangles excavated from IVC ![]() ![]() ![]() Here are the different types of bangles popular in Pakistan today
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Posted: 22-Mar-2008 at 17:54 |
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Here are then figurines of women wearing a head gear which looks like a turban
![]() ![]() Here are people from Pakistan wearing the same type of head gear the turban
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Posted: 02-Apr-2008 at 13:42 |
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Thank you athens owl for correcting my mistakes. I should have said that people please correct that list but i just forgot. Well i wanted to prove the point that when a population inhabits a region for some time and then another population comes there and takes control of a region then they usually adopt the name of the places and rivers of the local population. This phenomena has occured in quite a few places throughout history the Turks in Anatolia, The Spanish in America, The Portugese in America the Arabs in Spain and so on. The reason that i chose the British in America for this anlysis is because i know English and i can spot that what word constructions are alien to English whereas in the Case of Turkey i didn't knew either Greek or Turkish. In the case of Spain i niether knew Arabic nor Spanish. Therefore i ended up choosing the case of the British in America and almost every word that i identified as being non British was true. However since i was unfamiliar with both Spanish and French i was able to detect that the words were non British but when i thought that they were non British hence Native American they turned out to be either French or Spanish words. So thankyou for correcting me.
So the total word count stands at 50% of state names still a pretty percentage considering that how much displaced were the Native Americans. And that is just the state names. You will also find a huge Native American contribution in place and river names all over the US of A.
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Posted: 02-Apr-2008 at 13:44 |
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This linga belonged to the Indus age of around 2600 B.C because it was excavated from one of its cities. And we know that it came from IVC because the guy who excavated it says that it came from IVC from around 2600 B.C.
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Posted: 02-Apr-2008 at 13:45 |
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They haev been excavated from an IVC city and therefore it would mean that their age is the same as that of IVC cities which is roughly around 2600 B.C.
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Posted: 26-Apr-2008 at 00:24 |
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Sorry for the very very long delay in posts here. As i mentioned in another thread my hard disk was busted and i could not access my data. And right now my mind is occupied in another matter. But i promise that i will continue this thread as soon as i gather myself.
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Posted: 19-Jun-2008 at 05:30 |
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This is total nonsense. The laryngeals were not an innovation of Hittite, Proto-IE had the laryngeals, but in Late PIE (after Hittite separated) they evolved into vowels, so middle PIE *p'hter (the 'h representing a raspy, throaty, H-like sound) became late PIE *pater. Also, Middle PIE had an animate-inanimate gender system, which Hittite retained. The masculine-feminine-neuter system only evolved in Late PIE |
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