Thread: Deriving Indus decipherment purely from Brahmi:
ka ga gat na1 ta tha2 dhu dha naa1 pa ba bra ma2 yo vahi sh a1 ash o ja are 1:1 Brahmi and Indus script. Reading seals with just these symbols, first we will verify that the inscriptions are Indo-European. We will then attempt to decipher new symbols one by one.
The first seal we find is ja. There is no Tamil word with this symbol. Sanskrit has a few meanings for ja. "be", "born of" "lustre" "swift" etc.
I have avoided meanings like "shiva" and "vishnu" because that would require another assumption. While we don't know which particular meaning of ja is intended, we have one data point for IE.
The next seal we find is jaja. This means "warrior" in Sanskrit. There is no such word in any Dravidian language.
3rd seal we take is "ka" or possibly "Kha". ka means joy, king, sound, sun. "Kha" can mean "happiness", "sound", "sun" etc. There is no Dravidian word "ka".
4th seal is sha-dha. Shada is revenue is Sanskrit. There is no such word in Dravidian.
5th seal is a-tha. เค
เคฅ = certainly. There is no such dravidian word.
From this thread ๐, I think its pretty certain that the Indus language encodes an Indo-European language. If anyone wants to claim a different language, they need to show that these 5 short words exist in such a language. cc: @NileshOak @ArchitectRupa @bennedose @jeevanraya98
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