Contents of the book

My book, Decipherment of the Oldest Script in the World, includes the following contents

  

Table of Contents

1       INTRODUCTION OF THE INDUS VALLEY AND ITS SEALS.  

1.1    Background of script development  

2       INTRODUCTION OF THE INDUS VALLEY AND ITS SEALS.  

2.1    Discovery of the Indus Valley Civilisation.  

2.2    Indus seals.  

2.3    Attempts to decipher  

3       REFERENCES.  

3.1    Documents and Corpus.  

3.2    Other Documents.  

3.3    Websites.  

3.4    Referenced documents used in Annex-48 and Annex-29.  

4       ACRONYMS, ABBREVIATIONS AND DEFINITIONS.  

4.1    Acronyms, Abbreviations.  

4.2    Definitions.  

5       SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS.  

5.1    Scope of the decipherment  

5.2    Limitations of the decipherment process and source data.  

6       PROCESS OF THE DECIPHERMENT.  

6.1    Assumptions made during the decipherment  

6.2    Identification of most frequent symbols.  

6.3    Process used in decipherment of the script  

7.DOCUMENT OVERVIEW..  

ANNEX – 1    DECIPHERMENT OF THE MOST FREQUENT SYMBOL.  

ANNEX – 2    DIRECTION OF WRITING..  

ANNEX – 3    DECIPHERMENT OF VOWELS.  

ANNEX – 4    DECIPHERMENT OF CONSONANTS.  

ANNEX – 5    FEATURES OF THE INDUS SCRIPT.  

ANNEX – 6    SECOND “H” OF THE INDUS SCRIPT.  

ANNEX – 7    CONJUNCT SYMBOL DEVELOPMENT.  

ANNEX – 8    DECIPHERMENT OF CONJUNCT SYMBOLS.  

ANNEX – 9    THE SECOND SERIES OF CONSONANTS.  

ANNEX – 10  PREFIX BEFORE A WORD.  

ANNEX – 11  REMOVAL OF INHERENT “A” SOUND.  

ANNEX – 12  TYPE OF SYMBOLS USED IN THE SCRIPT.  

ANNEX – 13  PROBABLE ORIGIN OF A FEW INDUS LETTERS.  

ANNEX – 14  SIMILARITY TO OTHER SCRIPTS.  

ANNEX – 15  WRITING WAS ON THE WALL (ON SEALS)  

ANNEX – 16  “A” FOR APPLE.  

ANNEX – 17  ANIMALS OF INDUS SEALS.  

ANNEX – 18  WHEN A SEAL CONFIRMS THE ORIGIN OF A WORD.  

ANNEX – 19  DONKEY AND DECIPHERMENT OF A SYMBOL.  

ANNEX – 20  AN EXTINCT ANIMAL?.  

ANNEX – 21  LOOKALIKE SYMBOLS MAY CAUSE CONFUSION.  

ANNEX – 22  SAME WORD BUT DIFFERENT SYMBOLS MAY CAUSE CONFUSION   

ANNEX – 23  A COMMON SUFFIX.  

ANNEX – 24  OBSCURE WORDS USED IN INDUS SEALS.  

ANNEX – 25  DIET OF A HORSE.  

ANNEX – 26  EVOLUTION OF AN EXISTING WORD.  

ANNEX – 27  “PWA” VERSUS “PA” PRONUNCIATION.  

ANNEX – 28  A WOMAN WITH TWO TIGERS.  

ANNEX – 29  THE INDUS VALLEY’S LINKAGE TO SOUTH-EAST ASIA.  

ANNEX – 30  SOME GRAMMAR RULES OF THE SCRIPT.  

ANNEX – 31  SOME WORDS WITH REPEAT SYMBOLS.  

ANNEX – 32  USE OF CONSECUTIVE VOWELS.  

ANNEX – 33  INDUS SEALS FOUND IN MIDDLE EAST.  

ANNEX – 34  SACRIFICE OF ANIMALS.  

ANNEX – 35  FEUD BETWEEN PERSIANS & INDIAN BRANCHES.  

ANNEX – 36  A MYTHICAL CREATURES OF INDUS SEALS.  

ANNEX – 37  DID UNICONS EXIST?.  

ANNEX – 38  CHANGE IN PRONUNCIATION OF ऊ…  

ANNEX – 39  INDUS SEALS SAILING VESSELS.  

ANNEX – 40  WHAT WAS WRITTEN ON DHOLAVIRA SIGNBOARD?.  

ANNEX – 41  NO! IT IS NOT THE PASHU PATI SEAL!  

ANNEX – 42  IDENTIFICATION OF AN OBJECT NEXT TO A UNICORN.  

ANNEX – 43  INDUS PEOPLE AND THEIR SOMA DRINK.  

ANNEX – 44  DID THEY KNOW NUMERALS?.  

ANNEX – 45  IDENTIFICATION OF MELUHHA AND INDUS TRIBES.  

ANNEX – 46  WHAT WERE THESE SEALS FOR?.  

ANNEX – 47  DECLINE OF THE INDUS SCRIPT.  

ANNEX – 48  MIGRANTS FROM THE ARCTIC?.  

ANNEX – 49  CORRELATION BETWEEN WORDS & INDUS SYMBOLS.  

ANNEX – 50  A SIMPLE TREE.  

ANNEX – 51  REVIVING ANCIENT SOUNDS AND SYMBOLS.  

ANNEX – 52  A BLESSING IN DISGUISE.  

ANNEX – 53  SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.  

8       CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS.  

Tables….

Table 1: Direction of writing.  

Table 2: Common vowels and diphthongs  

Table 3: Common consonants  

Table 4: “R” Sounds  

Table 5: Nasal Sounds  

Table 6: Fourteen verses of the Śiva Sūtrā.  

Table 7: Differences between two h ह.  

Table 8: Conjunct symbol development  

Table 9: Conjunct symbol decipherment  

Table 10: Second series of consonants (and vowels)  

Table 11: Examples of prefix.  

Table 12: Examples removing the inherent “a” sound.  

Table 13: Type of symbols  

Table 14: Origin of a few Indus symbols  

Table 15: Similarities with other scripts  

Table 16: Hidden clues  

Table 17: An extinct animal  

Table 18: Lookalike symbols  

Table 19: Different symbols representing the same word.  

Table 20: A commonly used suffix.  

Table 21: SAY versus YAS.  

Table 22: Obscure words  

Table 23: Evolution of an existing word.  

Table 24: Pwa versus Pa.  

Table 25: Rules  

Table 26: Repeat symbols  

Table 27: Consecutive vowels examples  

Table 28: Middle Eastern seals of Indus origin.  

Table 29: History captured in seals  

Table 30: A mythical creature.  

Table 31: Unicorn, real or a myth.  

Table 32: Pronunciation of three forms of U.  

Table 33: Did they know numerals?.  

Table 34: Arguments supporting the use of seals as teaching aids  

Table 35: Arguments in support of Aryan migration theory.  

Table 36: Arguments in support of the invasion.  

Table 37: Arguments in support of outward migration from India.  

Table 38: Aryans and the Indus Valley Civilisation.  

Table 39: Possibility of correlation.