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Meluhha Visual Language Is Indus Script

The document discusses evidence that the Indus script was a visual language used by the Meluhha people to represent words through pictographs and homonyms. It provides several examples of pictographs from artifacts like tablets, seals and potsherds that signify Meluhha words related to metalworking and trade through homonyms. For instance, the interlocked bodies of tigers on a tablet signifies the word for "interlocked" and its similar-sounding homonym meaning "village of artificers". It suggests the script was used to record accounting information for precious metal and gem trades.

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Meluhha Visual Language Is Indus Script

The document discusses evidence that the Indus script was a visual language used by the Meluhha people to represent words through pictographs and homonyms. It provides several examples of pictographs from artifacts like tablets, seals and potsherds that signify Meluhha words related to metalworking and trade through homonyms. For instance, the interlocked bodies of tigers on a tablet signifies the word for "interlocked" and its similar-sounding homonym meaning "village of artificers". It suggests the script was used to record accounting information for precious metal and gem trades.

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Meluhha visual language is Indus Script

-- Cipher is defined as ‘disguised way of writing a code’


-- Picture as a disguise signifies a Meluhha word; the disguise
unravels ‘a similar sounding word’ called homonym in linguistics
-- Visual language is deployed on figurines, sculptures, tablets, seals,
potsherds, copper tablets, even on metal equipment

-- M-295 Bas-relief tablet shows interlocked bodies of tigers. This picture


signifies Meluhha word चाळा cāḷā ’interlocked bodies’, cāli ’interlocked’. Similar
sounding word is: ಶಾಲಿಕ śālika. a village of artificers. This is how, the Script
Cipher presents pictorially disguised meaning – village of artificers.
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चाळा cāḷā ’Interlocking of bodies or of parts’
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चाळा cāḷā A form of mortising, or of intersertion or interlocking of bodies or of


parts: viz. that of the dove-tail; of the fingers intertwined with the ends
downwards; of the parts of hinges; of the unwoven threads of cloth where
divisions are to be made; an articulation or a joint; as हाताचा-मणगटाचा-मानेचा-
खवाट्याचा-गड ु घ्याचा- चाळा. (Marathi)

cāli 'interlocked' cf. salāyisu = joining of metal (Ka.)

Rebus: ಶಾಲಿಕ śālika. a village of artificers.

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śālikā 'village of artisans, bell-metal shop’ of kole.l
‘temple’ rebus: kole.l ‘smithy, forge https://tinyurl.com/5dd47urw
-- M295 Bas-relief tablet
1386 Field symbol: kul ‘tiger’ (Santali); kōlu id. (Telugu) kōlupuli = Bengal
tiger (Telugu) कोल्हा [ kōlhā ] कोल्हें [kōlhēṃ] A jackal (Marathi) Rebus: kol,
kolhe, ‘the koles, iron smelters speaking a language akin to
that of Santals’ (Santali) kol ‘working in iron’ (Tamil) kolhe ‘smelter’ +
kolomo ‘triple’ rebus: kolimi ’smithy, forge’ + cāli 'interlocked' rebus śālikā
'village of artisans, shop' cf. sala_yisu = joining of metal (Ka.)
M295. Text script 1386. kanac 'corner' rebus: kancu 'bell-metal'
PLUS sal 'splinter' rebus: sal 'workshop'. Thus bronze/bell-metal
workshop.
kanka, karṇika 'rim of jar' rebus: karṇī 'supercargo,
scribe' कर्णिक 'steersman, helmsman’ karaṇa ‘messenger, dispatch’
meḍ 'body' rebus: meḍ 'iron' med 'copper' (Slavic).
Sign 242. kole.l ‘temple’ rebus: kole.l ‘smithy, forge’ (Kota) Or,
warehouse kuṭhī granary, factory (M.)(CDIAL 3546). koṭho =
a warehouse.
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Smelters, metalcasters; M440 Bas-relief tablet-1

Hieroglyphs. Centrepiece is a crocodile (scorpion?), surrounded by a pair of oxen (bisons, bulls),


rhinoceros, monkey, elephant, a tiger looking back, a standing person with spread legs. This
hieroglyph cluster is duplicated on six tablets in bas-relief.

m2015 A,B, m2016, m1393, m1394, m1395, m295, m439, m440, m441 A,B On some tablets, for e.g.,
M1395, such a glyphic composition (hypertext) is also accompanied (on obverse side, for example,
cf. m2015A and m295) with a glyphic of three or six joined tiger heads to a single body. Kolomo
‘three’ rebus: kolami ‘smithy, forge’. baṭa ‘six’ rebus: baṭa ‘iron’ bhaṭa ‘furnace’

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Treasury daybook of gold metalcaster, gem-setter
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-- ಗ ುಂಜ guñja = ಗ ುಂಜಿ, ಗ ುಂಜೆ Abrus precatorius (ಗ ರ ಗ ುಂಜಿ 133); a treasury (ಧನಾಶ್ರಯ, ಭಣ್ಾಾರ 133);
Gunja ‘abrus precatorius’ measure of gold weight
-- Cartouche of 24 notches or 24 guñja on H-1997signifies 24 gunja = ṭāṅka (टाांक) stamped
kumuda ‘gmelina arborea’ rebus: kumuda ‘silver’ coin; śāṇa ‘touchstone’
--କୁ ନ୍ଦଗର— kundagara କୁ ନ୍ଦନ କାମ କରିବା ବଣିଆ—A goldsmith adept in the art of setting precious
stones on gold leaves.

This is an addendum to: Early intimations of international gold standard in Indus Script
Corpora https://tinyurl.com/2p8phkxm
Script as an accounting system for wealth-trade categories https://tinyurl.com/2h4catnc
Importance of gmelina arborea tree in Sarasvati Civilization and identification of its Meluhha name
kumuda rebus kumuda ‘silver’ https://tinyurl.com/y3s2rk7e
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Script as an accounting system for wealth-trade categories
-- Expanded venn diagram
-- Set Theory in Mathematics is used to demonstrate a Venn Diagram intersection for Indus Script
cipher as an intersection between a hieroglyph set signifying pictures and a set of Meluhha words
signifying wealth-creation activities of artificers

Venn diagram, in mathematics, illustrating the intersection of two sets.


The intersection creates the Indus Script Corpora.
H-1997 tablet adds another Sign 65 and other graphemes,
cartouche with 24 pellets, leafless tree, two bisons, to the central
set. Sign 65 reads ayo ‘fish’ rebus: ayas ‘alloy metal’ + lid. musa
‘lid’ rebus: muhã ‘furnace produce’ Other graphemes signify:
goldsmithy, gem-setting, metalcasting
This set of three graphemes explains the form and function of the
script. Kana ‘spine’ rebus: kana ‘wealth’; karana ‘rim of jar’ rebus:
karana ‘messenger, dispatch’; karada ‘currycomb’ rebus: karada
‘daybook’. Thus, the entire corpora are documenting 1. wealth
ledgersand 2. trade accounting cargo manifests.

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