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	Dasa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the nineteenth century Western scholars identified the Dasa with dark-skinned Dravidian speaking peoples, but more recent scholars, notably Asko Parpola, have claimed that they were fellow Indo-Europeans, who initially rejected Aryan religious practices but were later merged with them.
		Sethna (1992) writes, referring to a comment by Richard Hartz, that "there is no need to follow Parpola in assuming a further unexpressed word meaning "people" in the middle of the compound krsnayonih", and the better known translation by Griffith, i.e.
		Parpola, Asko: 1988, The Coming of the Aryans to Iran and India and the Cultural and Ethnic Identity of the Dasas; The problem of the Aryans and the Soma.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dasa (1690 words)

	Aryan Invasion Theroy and Politics: The Case of David Duke
		Asko Parpola confirms: "It seems significant that painted Mature Harappan potsherds from Amri III A and C combine the motifs of 'fish' and 'star'.
		Asko Parpola and his followers cannot help it that no Harappan Rosetta stone is available, but that fact nonetheless makes the task they have set themselves extra difficult.
		Asko Parpola dismisses the Indo-Aryan Harappa school curtly: "It is now common knowledge that Brahmi (first attested in Asoka's edicts c.250 BC) is derived from the Semitic consonantal alphabet, which in turn is derived from Egyptian hieroglyphics.
	koenraadelst.bharatvani.org /articles/aid/vedicharrapans.html (7271 words)

	Deciphering the Indus Script by Asko Parpola [ISBN: 0521430798] - Find Cheap Textbook Prices & Save BIG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In this fascinating study, Asko Parpola outlines what is known about the Harappan culture and its script, presents a decipherment of a small number of interlocking Indus signs, and proposes a method that will permit further progress in decipherment.
		Parpola showing Dravidian as the dominant culture and language of Indus valley civilization prior to the arrival of Aryans in Punjab.
		Parpola's thesis on the archaeological situation flies against the opinion of all the archaeologists and it is worthless.
	216.26.169.206 /isbn_0521430798.html (554 words)

	The Hindu : Quaint charm
		Asko Parpola, a Finnish scholar from the Helsinki University, was in the city recently looking for an old street.
		Parpola wanted to see the kuzhaikathan street, where the Tirunelveli Samavedis had built their agraharams and discover something to substantiate his scholastic interests.
		Parpola is an expert on the Indus valley civilisation and has spent a lifetime studying the migration routes that the Aryans had chosen as well as decoding their script.
	www.hinduonnet.com /mp/2004/02/23/stories/2004022301910300.htm (806 words)

	origin of the word vrihi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Asko Parpola has assumed that the cultivation of rice have spread from the Ganges valley to Swat, Pirak (Kachi plain) and Gujarat during the first quarter of the second millennium BC.
		Asko Parpola considers that the words for rice in Tamil (arici) and Sanskrit (Vrihi) have failed to demonstrate with any certainty the influences of the Austro- Asiatic loan words on the oldest phase of Indo-Aryan in the northwest.[1]
		Asko Parpola has pointed out the Gangetic plane for the rice in the Indus valley.
	forumhub.com /tnhistory/7156.13.41.01.html (4832 words)

	Asko (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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	www.househelpservice.info /Asko.html (113 words)

	does tamil had a script before brahmi
		Parpola has given a reply to this, not perhaps wholly convincing, but I still think that the fish-meen-star homophony is a good one, although I readily admit that it has not been proved.
		But, Asko Parpola, Haimendrof, Gordon and otyhers have persistently asserted that the Dravidian languages came to India from the west through Iran about 700 BCE with the carriers of the Megalithic culture, which has been distributed all over South India.
		Conclusion: Asko Parpola, in spite of the representation of hundreds of diagrams and seals on and connected with Indus script and civilization, gives most of the interpretation on the culture of the Indus people relating to “Dravidians”.
	forumhub.com /tlit/15513.24675.00.44.46.html (5374 words)

	Deciphering the Indus Script (book review)
		Parpola's approach to the interpretation of the Indus script combines several approaches, which, as usual, are all masterfully, if somewhat speculatively, applied.
		This approach is justified by the detailed discussion in chapters 8 and 9 of the linguistic context of the Indus culture and its writing, in which Parpola presents strong arguments for the position that the Dravidian language family is the one most likely represented by the Indus script.
		This too is familiar from Parpola's earlier publications, but here it is developed in greater detail and interpreted in terms of a supposed Indus valley cult of star and planet worship, supported by ethnographic observations of similar practices in classical and modern India.
	murugan.org /research/salomon.htm (1846 words)

	Asko Telescope - Big Telescope Guide
		Saaritsa, Pentti, Sahlberg, Asko, Saisio, Pirkko, Salminen, Johannes, Simonsuuri, Kirsti...
		I wrote to Asko Parpola, professor emeritus university of Finland,...
		StrÃ¡nky ÄlenÅ¯, Äasopis Asko, dalekohledy a pÅÃstroje, fotogalerie a dalÅ¡Ã...
	www.bigtelescopeguide.com /asko-telescope.html (553 words)

	Elamo-Dravidian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Retroflex consonants, which exist in Vedic Sanskrit and Dravidian but do not exist in Iranian or European languages could suggest a Dravidian substrate in Vedic Sanskrit.
		Some who claim to have deciphered the Harappan script, including Asko Parpola and Walter A. Fairservis Jr., suggest that the Harappans spoke a Dravidian language, while others, namely S. Rao, suggest that the Harappan script represents an Indo-European language, similar to Sanskrit.
		Asko Parpola: "Interpreting the Indus Script", in A.H. Dani: Indus Civilisation
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elamo-Dravidian_languages (440 words)

	Murukan in the Indus Script
		It is interesting that Asko Parpola and his Finnish colleagues started off in 1970 with virtually the same assumptions and identified Sign 47 as ‘god’ and Sign 48 as ‘Mother goddess’.
		See Asko Parpola 1981 and 1997 for the connection between the Indus sign ‘yoke- carrier’, kavati traditions in North India as reflected in Indo-Aryan languages and kavati worship in Tamilnadu.
		Parpola A. On the Harappan ‘Yoke-Carrier’ pictogram and the Kavadi worship.
	murugan.org /research/mahadevan.htm (4418 words)

	Corpus of inscriptions and sign-lists: acknowledgements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		I-II Parpola et al., Materials for the study of the Indus script, I: A concordance to the Indus Inscriptions, 1973, pp.
		Parpola’s initial corpus (1973) included a total number of 3204 texts.
		Parpola’s concordance was sorted according to the sign following the indexed sign.
	www.hindunet.org /hindu_history/sarasvati/signs/script9.htm (538 words)

	The Gulf of Khambat debate
		One of the world's leading authorities on the Indus civilisation and the Indus script and religion, Dr. Asko Parpola is Professor of Indology at the Department of Asian and African Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.
		Parpola emphasises, due to tidal action it is very difficult to say for sure whether they are paleolithic which have been smoothened to look like neolithic or just natural stones that can acquire any kind of shape.
		Parpola is rather sceptical - (he feels that) they could have been formed naturally.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1907/19070940.htm (4468 words)

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		Parpola sent a list of his important works for this bibliography, with comments: Parpola, Asko, 1988.
		Parpola, Asko & Jagat Pati Joshi, eds., with the assistance of Erja Lahdenpera and Virpi Hameen-Anttila.
		The sky-garment : a study of the Harappan religion and its relation to the Mesopotamian and later Indian religions / by Asko Parpola.
	www.montclair.edu /risa/biblio/b-iaryan.txt (2401 words)

	Asko Parpola debunks Vedic Indus Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Asko Parpola is Professor of Indology at the Department of Asian and African Studies at the University of Helsinki.
		Parpola is a world expert on Jaiminiya Samaveda texts and rituals.
		It is sad that India's heritage should be exploited by some individuals - usually people with few, if any, academic credentials - who for political or personal motives are ready even to falsify evidence.
	www.dalitstan.org /holocaust/negation/twohorse.html (1070 words)

	Peoples and languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		However, Parpola argues that the term is misleading because it 'suggests discontinuity, like pre-Aryan vs. Aryan'.
		They have not been deciphered satisfactorily but a history of the attempts at such decipherment is available in Asko Parpola's most recent book on the subject.
		Even Parpola, after much careful and detailed sifting of the evidence, opines 'that the Harappan language is most likely to have belonged to the Dravidian family'.
	asnic.utexas.edu /asnic/subject/peoplesandlanguages.html (6627 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		TEXT: The president and the vice president of the international committee that is organizing the performance of Agni are, respectively, Professor J. Staal and Dr. Asko Parpola.
		Because of this, it was Parpola that handled all the correspondence.
		As is well known, a [Malayalam] translation of Parpola's circular of 5 February 1974 appeared in the October-November issue of the anAdi.
	users.primushost.com /~india/ejvs/ejvs1002/1002.txt (2503 words)

	Battle-axe and breastplate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Asko Parpola, 1984, Deciphering the Indus Script, Cambridge Univ. Press, Fig.
		The underlying imagery defined by the style of the copper casting is the pair of curving horns of a fighting ram ligatured into the outspread legs (of a warrior).
		In an incisive, contextual analysis of the corpus of inscriptions containing the 'fish' sign, Asko Parpola demonstrates that the sign sequences (Sign 211 and Sign 59) are functionally similar to the ligatured sign (fish enclosed in four circumgraphs: Sign 60) (cf.
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/scriptkeybreastplate.htm (4342 words)

	A Peaceful Realm : The Rise And Fall of the Indus Civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		She draws upon Asko Parpola's work in connecting the Indus
		Parpola also argues that the trefoil could represent the
		She discusses Parpola's interpretation of a famous Indus seal
	www.discoveringindia.com /prod.php?ASIN=0813335329 (759 words)

	Untitled Document
		The upshot is that Parpola's reading is an unlabeled reconstruction that includes several signs that Parpola assumes should be found on the partially illegible inscription.
		We cannot check Parpola's drawing against an unretouched photo in the Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions, since Parpola did not include a modern photo of the axe in the first two volumes of that work.
		It is important for Parpola to find all the signs drawn here to support his claim that the same sequence is found on several other elite objects from Mohenjo-daro.
	www.safarmer.com /indus/reconstructions/axehead.html (589 words)

	BookDetail - Universitatea din Bucuresti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Generally recognized as the world's expert on the Indus script, Asko Parpola has been studying this undeciphered writing for over 30 years at the University of Helsinki in Finland.
		As Professor of Indology he has led a Finnish team of experts through numerous approaches to the puzzle of one of the world's very earliest writing systems.
		Asko Parpola, the Finnish world expert on the ancient Indus script, explains his carefully constructed theory of its proto-Dravidian origins, astral relationships and religious significance.
	www.unibuc.ro /ro/bookdetail?bookid=34439 (120 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Additions to "Aryan Controversy" Bibliography Submitted by Asko Parpola, 21 Nov 1996 [The following bibliography was submitted by Prof.
		Parpola, who reviewed the RISA-L discussion and bibliography on the Aryan migration controversy and reported that many of the references to his publications "are at best marginal as far as this topic is concerned, while many of the most important publications in this field are missing." L. Nelson] A basic reference is: Parpola, Asko, 1988.
		Successive revisions which however do not repeat much material of the above article that I still subscribe to are: Parpola, Asko, 1993.
	www.montclair.edu /risa/biblio/b-parpola.txt (361 words)

	Findians Paradise - Details about the State of ANDHRA PRADESH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The proceedings of the International Symposium held on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of India's Independence at the University of Helsinki, Finland, on 6th May 1998, have been published in the University of Helsinki Studia Orientalia series, edited as part of the Finnish Oriental Society by the noted Indologist, Prof.
		Asko Parpola of the Institute of Asian and African Studies and Social Anthropologist Sirpa Tenhunen, both in the University of Helsinki.
		Asko Parpola: Sãvitri and Resurrection: The Ideal of Devoted Wife, Her Forehead Mark, Sati, and Human Sacrifice in Epiv-Purãnic, Vedic, Harappan-Dravidian and Near Eastern Perspectives
	koti.netplaza.fi /~amatthan/andhra.html (1989 words)

	Agni and the Foreign Savants
		The story that Ittiravi tells at the eve of the ritual is about the collaboration between two Western Vedic scholars (Frits Staal and Asko Parpola) and the Namboothiri Srautha establishment, a collaboration that has made the impending ritual possible.
		The president and the vice-president of the international committee that is organizing the performance of Agni are, respectively, Prof; J F Staal and Dr: Asko Parpola.
		As is well known, a [Malayalam] translation of Parpola's circular of 5 February 1974 appeared in the October-November issue of the "Anaadi".
	www.namboothiri.com /articles/agni-foreign-savants.htm (2572 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Deciphering the Indus Script (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Asko Parpola has been hawking his theory of the Indus script for close to three decades.
		For example, he sees the Gilgamesh motif of the Harappan art as having been borrowed from the Mesopotaminas, but the same motif occurs in the much earlier rock art of Central India.
		According to the archaeologists, there is a continuity in the Indian culture during 8000-1000 BC; Parpola ignores this to assert his immigration hypothesis.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521795664?v=glance (932 words)

	Indus sybolism
		Since we find similar symbolism in Indus as in the rest of the Old World it is important to study their culture and get some answers too.
		Asko Parpola has made good efforts in interpreting.
		He understands that we cannot double-check it in the same way as the languages around the Levant where we have several interpreting to cross-examine and get proof … it is much the same with my Scandinavian interpreting.
	www.catshaman.com /12Indus/02Indussym.htm (3403 words)

	Asko Parpola Asko Parpola Contents
		enerally recognized as the world's expert on the Indus script, Asko Parpola has been studying this undeciphered writing for over 30 years at the University of Helsinki in Finland.
		He is co-editor of collections of all seals and inscriptions in India and Pakistan.
		grand summary of Dr. Parpola's work, Deciphering the Indus Script was published by Cambridge University Press in 1994.
	www.harappa.com /script/parpola0.html (165 words)

	Trade in and metal sources for the Indian Bronze Age Civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		(A. Parpola and S. Parpola, 1975, On the relationship of the Sumerian Toponym Meluhha and Sanskrit Mleccha, Studia Orientalia 46).
		Theraga_tha_ in Pali refers to a banner which was dyed the colour of copper: milakkhurajanam (The Thera andTheriga_tha_, PTS, verse 965: milakkhurajanam rattam garahanta_ sakam dhajam; tithiya_nam dhajam keci dha_ressanty avada_takam; K.R.Norman, tr., Theraga_tha_: Finding fault with their own banner which is dyed the colour of copper, some will wear the white banner of sectarians).[cf.
		Asko and Simo Parpola, On the relationship of the Sumerian Toponym Meluhha and Sanskrit Mleccha, Studia Orientalia, vol.
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/trade1.htm (8386 words)

	The Schoyen Collection: 4. Palaeography -- 4.1. The beginning of writing and the first alphabets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Published: To be published by Asko Parpola in: Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscription, vol.
		The Indus script is still undeciphered, as is the Linear A script from Crete and the Rongo-Rongo script from Easter Island, which has numerous signs in common with the Indus script, cf.
		Commentary: The Indus script is still undeciphered, as is the Linear A script from Crete and the Rongo-Rongo script from Easter Island, which has numerous signs in common with the Indus script, cf.
	www.nb.no /baser/schoyen/4/4.4/441.html (6251 words)

	Tholkapiyan's Grammar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Asko Parpola, noted long-time Indus Linguist and editorial member of The Journal of Vedic Studies, has written a new book titled
		And now to I.Mahadevan: he, in his review of Asko Parpola's paper which unequivocally supports the Arayn Invasion/Immigration Theory (which is not the main thrust of his book) is not expressing any opposition to the AIT at all.
		"Parpola proposes a new theory about when, from where and how the Aryans came into the Indian sub-continent and the identity of the Dasas (Dasyus) who were their traditional enemies.
	forumhub.com /tlit/1572.8828.07.47.15.html (1887 words)

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