<< Text Pages >> Sarasvati River Indus script - Ancient Village or Settlement in India
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Multi-periodSite Name: Sarasvati River Indus script Alternative Name: Vedic river sarasvatiCountry: India
NOTE: This site is 159.237 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kurukshetra Nearest Village: Farmana
Latitude: 27.370000N Longitude: 74.280000E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Ancient Settlement in India. The Vedic river Sarasvati flows from the Himalayas (Mt. Kailas) to Somnath (Prabhas Patan, Gujarat) over approximately 1600 kms. Over 2000 archaeological sites have been listed on the river bank in a gazette prepared by Prof. Gregory Possehl. The writing system of the civilization is called Indus script.
This has been decoded as mleccha smith guild tokens. Mleccha (cognate meluhha) is used as mlecchamukha (Sanskrit) and milakku (Pali) both words meaning 'copper'. The smiths of the civilization used the writing system to record their repertoire of minerals, metals, alloys, furnaces. The glyphs used are read rebus in mleccha language. The glyphs continued to be used on punch-marked coins from mints from Gandhara (Afghanistan) to Karur (South India) from 6th century BCE.
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