Mohenjo-daro tablet m324 supercargo of minerals, metalwork from sãgaṛh, 'line of entrenchments, fortification'संगर sangar 'trade' sã̄go ʻcaravanʼ'

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Select inscriptions from Indus Script corpora are presented to reaffirm the form and function of Indus writing: to document transactions by caravans of seafaring metalwork merchants of Meluhha.

The significance of the 'standard device' shown in front of a young bull on over 1,000 inscriptions in the context of trade of mintwork is firm and definitive as demonstrated by the decipherment of the hieroglyph-multiplex with hieroglyph components of pillar, furnace, lathe. Rebus readings of hieroglyph components PLUS a rope that ties an animal (zebu or tiger) are presented.

Seafaring trade: sĕng स्यंग् । वाणिज्यम्, अलभ्यलाभः trading, trafficking (across the sea with foreign countries); met. the getting of something rare or unobtainable. -- zēnun ज़ेनुन् । वाणिज्यलाभः, दुर्लभेष्टाप्तिः m.inf. to conquer such trafficking, to make great profit by such trafficking; to obtain something rare and long desired. (Kashmiri)

संगर a [p= 1128,3] a bargain , transaction of sale L. (Monier-Williams)

Sangara [fr. saŋ+gṛ1 to sing, proclaim, cp. gāyati & gīta] 1. a promise, agreement J iv.105, 111, 473; v.25, 479 saṅgarḥ संगरः 1 A promise, an agreement; तथेति तस्या वितथं प्रतीतः प्रत्यग्रहीत् संगरमग्रजन्मा R.5.26;11.48; पलितसंगराय 13.65. -2 Accepting, undertaking. -3 A bargain. saṅgata संगत Association, company. (Apte. Samskritam)

Rebus: saṁghāṭa m. ʻ fitting and joining of timber ʼ R. [√ghaṭ](CDIAL 12859) संगत saṅgata Assembled, collected, convened, met together.संगतिः saṅgatiḥ Company, society, association, intercourse (Samskritam. Apte) Sangata [pp. of sangacchati] 1. come together, met Sn 807, 1102 (=samāgata samohita sannipātita Nd2 621); nt. sangataŋ association Dh 207. -- 2. compact, tightly fastened or closed, well -- joined Vv 642 (=nibbivara VvA 275).Sangati (f.) [fr. sangacchati] 1. meeting, intercourse J iv.98; v.78, 483. In defn of yajati (=service?) at Dhtp 62 & Dhtm 79. -- 2. union, combination M i.111; Sii.72; iv.32 sq., 68 sq.; Vbh 138 (=VbhA 188). <-> 3. accidental occurrence D i.53; DA i.161. (Pali)

Hypetext of a tiger tied by a rope occurs on the terracotta cake of Kalibangan.

Hypertexts signifying a tiger or zebu tied by a rope to a post are signified on some examples from Indus Script Corpora.

Pl. XXII B. Terracotta cake with incised figures on obverse and reverse, Harappan. On one side is a human figure wearing a head-dress having two horns and a plant in the centre; on the other side is an animal-headed human figure with another animal figure, the latter being dragged by the former.

Decipherment of hieroglyphs on the Kalibangan terracotta cake:

bhaTa 'warrior' rebus: bhaTa 'furnace'

kolmo 'rice plant' rebus: kolimi 'smithy, forge'

koD 'horn' rebus: koD 'workshop'

kola 'tiger' rebus: kolle 'blacksmith', kolhe 'smelter' kol 'working in iron'

The tiger is being pulled to be tied to a post, pillar.

Hieroglyph: Ka. kunda a pillar of bricks, etc. Tu. kunda pillar, post. Te. kunda id. Malt. kunda block, log. ? Cf. Ta. kantu pillar, post. (DEDR 1723) Rebus: (agni)kuNDA 'fire-altar, vedi'.

Kulli. Plate. Two tigers tied to a meshed axle. Stars. Fish.

Decipherment:

dula 'pair' rebus: dul 'cast metal'

kola 'tiger' rebus: kolhe 'smelter' kol 'working in iron' kolle 'blacksmith'. http://www.harappa.com/figurines/index.html kola 'tiger' kola 'woman' Rebus: kol 'working in iron'. Ta. kol working in iron, blacksmith; kollaṉ blacksmith. Ma. kollan blacksmith, artificer. Ko. kole·l smithy, temple in Kota village. To. kwala·l Kota smithy. Ka.kolime, kolume, kulame, kulime, kulume, kulme fire-pit, furnace; (Bell.;.P.U.) konimi blacksmith

(Gowda) kolla id. Koḍ. kollë blacksmith. Te. kolimi furnace. Go.(SR.) kollusānā to mend implements; (Ph.) kolstānā, kulsānā to forge; (Tr.) kōlstānā to repair (of ploughshares); (SR.) kolmi smithy (Voc. 948). Kuwi (F.) kolhali to forge(DEDR 2133).

मेढ (p. 662) [ mēḍha ] the polar star (Phonetic determinant); meḍ(h), meḍhī f., meḍhā m. ʻpost, forked stakeʼ rebus: meD'iron' (Ho.); med 'copper'

kāṇḍa 'water' rebus: kāṇḍa 'tools, pots and pans and metal-ware'.

Thus, the inscription on the Kulli plate signifies iron smelting, cast iron (metal) implements.

Kulli potsherd signifies a zebu tied to a sangaḍa, 'standard device' rebus: sãgaṛh, 'line of entrenchments, fortification'.

Zebu and leaves. In front of the standard device and the stylized tree of 9 leaves, are the black buck antelopes. Black paint on red ware of Kulli style. Mehi. Second-half of 3rd millennium BCE. [After G.L. Possehl, 1986, Kulli: an exploration of an ancient civilization in South Asia, Centers of Civilization, I, Durham, NC: 46, fig. 18 (Mehi II.4.5), based on Stein 1931: pl. 30.

There are three hieroglyph components in the 'standard device' hieroglyph-multiplex (hypertext) together with a zebu tied with a rope to the pillar, post:

1. portable furnace: kamaṭa'portable furnace to melt precioous metals of a goldsmith'

2. lathe: sangaḍa, 'lathe'

3. post, pillar: khamba'post' (Allograph: khambh ʻshoulder'-- phonetic determinant, see Pict.91)

4. rope (to tie to pillar): meṛh 'rope tying to post, pillar'

Rebus readings of these four hieroglyph components are:

1. kammaṭīḍu 'goldsmith''

2. sãgaṛh, 'line of entrenchments, fortification'

3. kammaṭa 'mint, coiner, coinage'

4. mẽṛhẽt, meḍ‘iron’ (Mu.Ho.) mRdu'iron' (Samskrtam)

Hieroglyph 1: కమటము [ kamaṭamu ] kamaṭamu. [Tel.] n. A portable furnace for melting the precious metals. అగసాలెవాని కుంపటి.

"చ కమటము కట్లెసంచియొరగల్లును గత్తెర సుత్తె చీర్ణముల్ ధమనియుస్రావణంబు మొలత్రాసును బట్టెడ నీరుకారు సా నము పటుకారు మూస బలునాణె పరీక్షల మచ్చులాదిగానమరగభద్రకారక సమాహ్వయు డొక్కరుడుండు నప్పురిన్" హంస. ii.

Hieroglyph 2: కమ్మచ్చు [ kammaccu ] kammaṭṭsu. [Tel. కమ్మి+అచ్చు.] n. An instrument for drawing out wire. కంసలివాడుకమ్మిలాగేపనిముట్టు.

Rebus: కమ్మటము [ kammaṭamu ] Same as కమటము. కమ్మటీడు kammaṭīḍu. [Tel.] A man of the goldsmith caste. కమ్మరము [ kammaramu ] kammaramu. [Tel.] n. Smith's work, iron work. కమ్మరవాడు, కమ్మరి or కమ్మరీడు kammara-vāḍu. n. An iron-smith or blacksmith. బైటికమ్మరవాడు an itinerant blacksmith. Ta. kampaṭṭam coinage, coin. Ma. kammaṭṭam, kammiṭṭam coinage, mint. Ka. kammaṭa id.; kammaṭi a coiner. (DEDR 1236).

కమతము [ kamatamu ] or కమ్మతము kamatamu. [Tel. n. Partnership. అనేకులు చేరిచేయుసేద్యము. The cultivation which an owner carries on with his own farming stock. Labour, tillage. కృషి, వ్యవసాయము. కమతకాడు or కమతీడు or కమతగాడు a labourer, or slave employed in tillage. కమ్మతము [ kammatamu ] Same as కమతము. కమ్మతీడు Same as కమతకాడు.

Mintwork is signified by the hieroglyph and metaphor of a 'pillar, stake': kammaTa is cognate with skambha 'yupa, post, stake' venerated in Atharva Veda Skambha Sukta. A number of variant glosses of Indian sprachbund are cognate with Skambha as Sacred Post on a smelter or Yajna Kunda for Soma Yaga: for e.g. Pk. khaṁbha -- m. ʻ post, pillar ʼ N. khã̄bo ʻ pillar, post ʼdarkámbat ʻ door frame ʼ. kamhãṛ, kamhaṛ,

kamhaṇḍā ʻwooden frame suspended from roof which drives home the thread in a loom ʼ -- all glosses relatable to the 'pillar, post' hieroglyph of Yupa skambha.

Stone-smithy guild on a Meluhha standard

Decipherment of inscription on Kulli potsherd:

Hieroglyph: khareḍo = a currycomb (Gujarati) Rebus: kharādī 'turner' (Gujarati) dula 'two' rebus: dul 'cast metal'. Thus together, the two currycombs signify castmetal turner. lo 'nine' loa 'ficus' rebus: loha 'copper'.

Hieriglyph: meṛh rope tying to post, pillar: mēthí m. ʻ pillar in threshing floor to which oxen are fastened, prop for supporting carriage shafts ʼ AV., °thī -- f. KātyŚr.com., mēdhī -- f. Divyāv. 2. mēṭhī -- f. PañcavBr.com., mēḍhī -- , mēṭī -- f. BhP.1. Pa. mēdhi -- f. ʻ post to tie cattle to, pillar, part of a stūpa ʼ; Pk. mēhi -- m. ʻ post on threshing floor ʼ, N. meh(e), miho, miyo, B. mei, Or. maï -- dāṇḍi, Bi. mẽh, mẽhā ʻ the post ʼ, (SMunger) mehā ʻ the bullock next the post ʼ, Mth. meh, mehā ʻ the post ʼ, (SBhagalpur)mīhã̄ ʻ the bullock next the post ʼ, (SETirhut) mẽhi bāṭi ʻ vessel with a projecting base ʼ.2. Pk. mēḍhi -- m. ʻ post on threshing floor ʼ, mēḍhaka<-> ʻ small stick ʼ; K. mīr, mīrü f. ʻ larger hole in ground which serves as a mark in pitching walnuts ʼ (for semantic relation of ʻ post -- hole ʼ see kūpa -- 2); L. meṛh f. ʻ rope tying oxen to each other and to post on threshing floor ʼ; P. mehṛ f., mehaṛ m. ʻ oxen on threshing floor, crowd ʼ; OA meṛha, mehra ʻ a circular construction, mound ʼ; Or. meṛhī,meri ʻ post on threshing floor ʼ; Bi. mẽṛ ʻ raised bank between irrigated beds ʼ, (Camparam) mẽṛhā ʻ bullock next the post ʼ, Mth. (SETirhut) mẽṛhā ʻ id. ʼ; M. meḍ(h), meḍhī f., meḍhā m. ʻ post, forked stake ʼ.mēthika -- ; mēthiṣṭhá -- . mēthika m. ʻ 17th or lowest cubit from top of sacrificial post ʼ lex. [mēthí -- ]Bi. mẽhiyā ʻ the bullock next the post on threshing floor ʼ.mēthiṣṭhá ʻ standing at the post ʼ TS. [mēthí -- , stha -- ] Bi. (Patna) mĕhṭhā ʻ post on threshing floor ʼ, (Gaya) mehṭā, mẽhṭā ʻ the bullock next the post ʼ.(CDIAL 10317 to, 10319) Rebus: meD 'iron' (Ho.); med 'copper' (Slavic)

poLa 'zebu' rebus: poLa 'magnetite (ferrite ore)'. adar ḍangra ‘zebu’ (Santali); Rebus: aduru ‘native metal’ (Ka.);ḍhan:gar‘blacksmith’ (WPah.) ayir = iron dust, any ore (Ma.) aduru = gan.iyinda tegadu karagade iruva aduru = ore taken from the mine and not subjected to melting in a furnace (Ka. Siddha_nti Subrahman.ya’ S’astri’s new interpretationof the Amarakos’a, Bangalore, Vicaradarpana Press, 1872, p. 330) DEDR 192 Ta. ayil iron. Ma. ayir, ayiram any ore. Ka. aduru native

metal. Tu. ajirda karba very hard iron.

Hieroglyph: lo = nine (Santali); no = nine (B.) on-patu = nine (Ta.)

[Note the count of nine fig leaves on m0296] Rebus: loa = a species of fig tree, ficus glomerata, the fruit of ficus glomerata (Santali.lex.)(Phonetic determinant).

V326 (Orthographic variants of Sign 326)

V327 (Orthographic variants of Sign 327)

loa = a species of fig tree, ficus glomerata, the fruit of ficus glomerata
(Santali) Rebus: lo ‘iron’ (Assamese, Bengali); loa ‘iron’ (Gypsy) lauha = made of copper or iron (Gr.S'r.); metal, iron (Skt.); lo_haka_ra = coppersmith, ironsmith (Pali); lo_ha_ra = blacksmith (Pt.); lohal.a (Or.); lo_ha = metal, esp. copper or bronze (Pali); copper (VS.); loho, lo_ = metal, ore, iron (Si.) loha lut.i = iron utensils and implements (Santali.lex.)

The hypertext signifies iron or copper metal work, with particular reference to magnetite ore: lo 'iron or copper' PLUS poLa 'zebu' rebus: poLa 'magnetite (ferrite ore)' PLUS meṛh f. ʻrope tying oxen to each other and to post on threshing floorʼ rebus: meD 'iron', med 'copper'. khambha 'pillar, post' rebus: kammaTa, kampaTTa 'mint, coinage, coiner'.

skambhá1 m. ʻ prop, pillar ʼ RV. 2. ʻ *pit ʼ (semant. cf. kūˊpa -- 1). [√skambh]1. Pa. khambha -- m. ʻ prop ʼ; Pk. khaṁbha -- m. ʻ post, pillar ʼ; Pr. iškyöp, üšköb ʻ bridge ʼ NTS xv 251; L. (Ju.) khabbā m., mult. khambbā m. ʻ stake forming fulcrum for oar ʼ; P. khambh, khambhā, khammhā m. ʻ wooden prop, post ʼ; WPah.bhal. kham m. ʻ a part of the yoke of a plough ʼ, (Joshi) khāmbā m. ʻ beam, pier ʼ; Ku. khāmoʻ a support ʼ, gng. khām ʻ pillar (of wood or bricks) ʼ; N. khã̄bo ʻ pillar, post ʼ, B. khām, khāmbā; Or. khamba ʻ post, stake ʼ; Bi. khāmā ʻ post of brick -- crushing machine ʼ, khāmhī ʻ support of betel -- cage roof ʼ, khamhiyā ʻ wooden pillar supporting roof ʼ; Mth. khāmh, khāmhī ʻ pillar, post ʼ, khamhā ʻ rudder -- post ʼ; Bhoj.khambhā ʻ pillar ʼ, khambhiyā ʻ prop ʼ; OAw. khāṁbhe m. pl. ʻ pillars ʼ, lakh. khambhā; H. khām m. ʻ post, pillar, mast ʼ, khambh f. ʻ pillar, pole ʼ; G. khām m. ʻ pillar ʼ,khã̄bhi, °bi f. ʻ post ʼ, M. khã̄b m., Ko. khāmbho, °bo, Si. kap (< *kab); -- X gambhīra -- , sthāṇú -- , sthūˊṇā -- qq.v.2. K. khambürü f. ʻ hollow left in a heap of grain when some is removed ʼ; Or. khamā ʻ long pit, hole in the earth ʼ, khamiā ʻ small hole ʼ; Marw. khã̄baṛo ʻ hole ʼ; G.khã̄bhũ n. ʻ pit for sweepings and manure ʼ.*skambhaghara -- , *skambhākara -- , *skambhāgāra -- , *skambhadaṇḍa -- ; *dvāraskambha -- .Addenda: skambhá -- 1: Garh. khambu ʻ pillar ʼ.(CDIAL 13639)skámbhana n. ʻ prop, pillar ʼ RV., skambhanīˊ -- f. VS. [√skambh] M. khã̄bṇī f. ʻ small post ʼ; -- G. khāmṇiyũ n. ʻ one of the ropes with which bucket is let down a well ʼ (i.e. from the post?); -- Or. khamaṇa ʻ pit, hole, waterchannel, lowland at foot of mountain ʼ; G. khāmṇũ n. ʻ small depression to stand round -- bottomed vessel in, basin at root of a tree for water ʼ: semant. cf. kūˊpa -- 1 and skambhá -- 1.(CDIAL 13644)

*skambha2 ʻ shoulder -- blade, wing, plumage ʼ. [Cf. *skapa -- s.v. *khavaka -- ] L. khabbh m., mult. khambh m. ʻ shoulder -- blade, wing, feather ʼ, khet. khamb ʻ wing ʼ, mult. khambhaṛā m. ʻ fin ʼ; G. khā̆m f., khabhɔ m. ʻ shoulder ʼ.(CDIAL 13640).

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Components of hieroglyph multiplex of m324a:

Inscription on m324a, m324b dhatu karNI, 'supercargo of minerals'

kanka ‘Rim of jar’ (Santali); karṇaka rim of jar’(Skt.) Rebus: karNI 'supercargo', karṇaka ‘scribe’ (Te.); gaṇaka id. (Skt.) (Santali) kaṇḍa kanka 'rim of jar' (Santali); rebus: furnace scribe. kaṇḍa kanka may be a dimunitive form of *kan-khār ‘copper smith’ comparable to the cognate gloss: kaṉṉār ‘coppersmiths, blacksmiths’ (Tamil) If so, kaṇḍa kan-khār connotes: ‘copper-smith furnace.’kaṇḍa ‘fire-altar (Santali); kan ‘copper’ (Ta.) Hieroglyph: धातु [p= 513,3] m. layer , stratum Ka1tyS3r. Kaus3. constituent part , ingredient (esp. [ and in RV. only] ifc. , where often = " fold " e.g. त्रि-ध्/आतु , threefold &c ; cf.त्रिविष्टि- ,

सप्त- , सु-) RV. TS. S3Br. &c (Monier-Williams) dhāˊtu *strand of rope ʼ (cf. tridhāˊtu -- ʻ threefold ʼ RV., ayugdhātu -- ʻ having an uneven number of strands ʼ KātyŚr.).; S. dhāī f. ʻ wisp of fibres added from time to time to a rope that is being twisted ʼ, L. dhāī˜ f.(CDIAL 6773) tántu m. ʻ thread, warp ʼ RV. [√tan] Pa. tantu -- m. ʻ thread, cord ʼ, Pk. taṁtu -- m.; Kho. (Lor.) ton ʻ warp ʼ < *tand (whence tandeni ʻ thread between wings of spinning wheel ʼ); S. tandu f. ʻ gold or silver thread ʼ; L. tand (pl. °dũ) f. ʻ yarn, thread being spun, string of the tongue ʼ; P. tand m. ʻ thread ʼ, tanduā, °dūā m. ʻ string of the tongue, frenum of glans penis ʼ; A. tã̄t ʻ warp in the loom, cloth being woven ʼ; B. tã̄t ʻ cord ʼ; M. tã̄tū m. ʻ thread ʼ; Si. tatu, °ta ʻ string of a lute ʼ; -- with -- o, -- ā to retain orig. gender: S. tando m. ʻ cord, twine, strand of rope ʼ; N. tã̄do ʻ bowstring ʼ; H. tã̄tā m. ʻ series, line ʼ; G. tã̄tɔ m. ʻ thread ʼ; -- OG. tāṁtaṇaü m. ʻ thread ʼ < *tāṁtaḍaü, G.tã̄tṇɔ m.(CDIAL 5661)

Rebus: M. dhāū, dhāv m.f. ʻ a partic. soft red stone ʼ (whence dhā̆vaḍ m. ʻ a caste of iron -- smelters ʼ, dhāvḍī ʻ composed of or relating to iron ʼ); dhāˊtu n. ʻ substance ʼ RV., m. ʻ element ʼ MBh., ʻ metal, mineral, ore (esp. of a red colour) ʼ; Pk. dhāu -- m. ʻ metal, red chalk ʼ; N. dhāu ʻ ore (esp. of copper) ʼ; Or. ḍhāu ʻ red chalk, red ochre ʼ (whence ḍhāuā ʻ reddish ʼ; (CDIAL 6773) धातु primary element of the earth i.e. metal , mineral, ore (esp. a mineral of a red colour) Mn. MBh. &c element of words i.e. grammatical or verbal root or stem Nir. Pra1t. MBh. &c (with the southern Buddhists धातु means either the 6 elements [see above] Dharmas. xxv ; or the 18 elementary spheres [धातु-लोक] ib. lviii ; or the ashes of the body , relics L. [cf. -गर्भ]) (Monier-Williams. Samskritam).

Examples of Indus Script seals with a three-stranded rope:

Print of a seal: Two-headed eagle, a twisted cord below. From Bogazköy . 18th c.B.C. (Museum Ankara).

m1406

Hieroglyphs: thread of three stands + drummer + tumblers

dhollu ‘drummer’ (Western Pahari) dolutsu 'tumble' Rebus: dul ‘cast metal’

karaḍa 'double-drum' Rebus: karaḍa 'hard alloy'.

dhAtu 'strands of rope' Rebus: dhAtu 'mineral, metal, ore'

Kalibangan seal. k020 Hieroglyphs: thread of three strands + water-carrier + one-horned young bull.

Examples of acrobats as hieroglyphs:

Components of hieroglyph multiplex of m324b inscription are:

--ram or sheep (forelegs denote a bovine)

--neck-band, ring

--bos indicus (zebu)(the high horns denote a bos indicus)

--elephant (the elephant's trunk ligatured to human face)

--tiger (hind legs denote a tiger)

--serpent (tail denotes a serpent)

--human face

All these glyphic elements are decoded rebus:

meḍho a ram, a sheep (G.)(CDIAL 10120); rebus: meD 'iron' (Ho.) mẽṛhẽt, meḍ ‘iron’ (Mu.Ho.) mRdu 'iron' (Samskrtam)

kaḍum ‘neck-band, ring’ rebus: khāḍ ‘trench, firepit’

adar ḍangra ‘zebu’ poLa 'zebu' rebus: poLa 'magnetite' aduru ‘native metal’ (Ka.) ḍhangar ‘blacksmith’ (H.)

ibha ‘elephant’ (Skt.); rebus: ib ‘iron’ (Ko.) kariba 'elephant trunk' rebus: karba 'iron' (Kannada)

Hieroglyph 1: kolo ‘jackal’ (Kon.) Hieroglyph 2: kola 'tail'; xolā = tail (Kur.); qoli id. (Malt.)(DEDr 2135). Rebus: kol ‘pañcalōha’ (Ta.)கொல் kol, n. 1. Iron; இரும்பு. மின் வெள்ளி பொன் கொல்லெனச் சொல்லும் (தக்கயாகப். 550). 2. Metal; உலோகம். (நாமதீப. 318.) கொல்லன் kollaṉ, n. < T. golla. Custodian of treasure; கஜானாக்காரன். (P. T. L.) கொல்லிச்சி kollicci, n. Fem. of கொல்லன். Woman of the blacksmith caste; கொல்லச் சாதிப் பெண். (யாழ். அக.) The gloss kollicci is notable. It clearly evidences that kol was a blacksmith. kola ‘blacksmith’ (Ka.); Koḍ. kollë blacksmith (DEDR 2133). Vikalpa: dumba दुम्ब or (El.) duma दुम । पशुपुच्छः m. the tail of an animal. (Kashmiri) Rebus: ḍōmba ?Gypsy (CDIAL 5570). rebus: kol 'working in iron' kolhe 'smelters' kolimi 'smithy, forge' kol ‘furnace, forge’ (Kuwi) kol ‘alloy of five metals, pancaloha’ (Ta.)

mũhe ‘face’ (Santali); mleccha-mukha (Skt.) = milakkhu ‘copper’ (Pali) mūhā mẽṛhẽt = iron smelted by the Kolhes and formed into an equilateral lump a little pointed at each of four ends (Santali)

moṇḍ the tail of a serpent (Santali) Rebus: Md. moḍenī ʻ massages, mixes ʼ. Kal.rumb. moṇḍ -- ʻ to thresh ʼ, urt. maṇḍ -- ʻ to soften ʼ (CDIAL 9890) Thus, the ligature of the serpent as a tail of the composite animal glyph is decoded as: polished metal (artifact).

கோடு kōṭu : •நடுநிலை நீங்குகை. கோடிறீக் கூற் றம் (நாலடி, 5). 3. [K. kōḍu.] Tusk; யானை பன்றிகளின் தந்தம். மத்த யானையின் கோடும் (தேவா. 39, 1). 4. Horn; விலங்கின் கொம்பு. கோட்டிடை யாடினை கூத்து (திவ். இயற். திருவிருத். 21).

Ta. kōṭu (in cpds. kōṭṭu-) horn, tusk, branch of tree, cluster, bunch, coil of hair, line, diagram, bank of stream or pool; kuvaṭu branch of a tree; kōṭṭāṉ, kōṭṭuvāṉ rock horned-owl (cf. 1657 Ta. kuṭiñai). Ko. kṛ (obl. kṭ-) horns (one horn is kob), half of hair on each side of parting, side in game, log, section of bamboo used as fuel, line marked out. To. kwṛ (obl. kwṭ-) horn, branch, path across stream in thicket. Ka. kōḍu horn, tusk, branch of a tree; kōr̤ horn. Tu. kōḍů, kōḍu horn. Te. kōḍu rivulet, branch of a river. Pa. kōḍ (pl. kōḍul) horn (DEDR 2200) Rebus: koḍ = the place where artisans work (G.)

Orthographically, the glytic compositions add on the characteristic short tail as a hieroglyph (on both ligatured signs and on pictorial motifs)

sangaḍi = joined animals (Marathi) Rebus: sãgaṛh m. ʻ line of entrenchments, stone walls for defence ʼ (Lahnda)(CDIAL 12845) [Note: Within this fortification, zebu signifies a poliya 'citizen, gatekeeper of town quarter'.] This suggests that seal m0324b is an archaeometallurgist signifying the guild of artisans at work in the fortified settlement.

Carved ivory standard in the middle, flanked by two tablets.

Dawn of the bronze age is best exemplified by this Mohenjo-daro tablet which shows a procession of three hieroglyphs carried on the shoulders of four persons. The hieroglyphs (from l. to r.) are: 1. Spoked wheel on flagpost; 2. Scarf carried on a pole (dhatu Rebus: mineral ore); 3. A young bull carried on a stand kõdā Rebus: turner; 4. Portable standard device (Top part: lathe-gimlet; Bottom part: portable furnace sã̄gāḍ Rebus: stone-cutter sangatarāśū ). sanghāḍo (Gujarati) cutting stone, gilding (Gujarati); sangsāru karaṇu = to stone (Sindhi) sanghāḍiyo, a worker on a lathe (Gujarati)

The fourth flag-carrier in front of the procession could be carrying a spoked wheel.

A spoked wheel is shown atop on the standard and the hieroglyph is also reinforced by depicting the hieroglyph on the top of the standard-bearer's head. This Meluhha hieroglyph is read rebus: eraka'knave of wheel' Rebus: 'moltencast copper'; āra 'spokes' Rebus: āra 'brass'.

Thus, the fourth profession is depicted as the smith working with metal alloys.

Thus, together the four professions depicted on the Mohenjodaro-standard showing four

hieroglyphs in procession are read rebus:

Hieroglyph: dhatu 'scarf' Rebus: dhatu 'mineral'

Hieroglyph: kõdā 'young bull calf' Rebus: kõdā 'turner-joiner' (forge), worker on a lathe

Hieroglyph: sã̄gāḍī 'lathe (gimlet), portable furnace' Rebus: sã̄gāḍī 'metalsmith associates (guild)'

Hieroglyph eraka āra 'knave of wheel', 'spokes of wheel' Rebus: eraka āra 'copper alloy brass'

Thus Rebus readings of the four hieroglyphs denote: ‘ mineral worker; metals turner-joiner (forge); worker on a lathe’ – associates (guild), copper alloy brass.

dhatu kõdā sã̄gāḍī eraka āra

m0491 Tablet. Line drawing (right). This tablet showing four persons in a procession may be called the Meluhha standard. Combined reading for the joined or ligatured glyphs Harappa tablet. Pict-91 eraka 'upraised hand' (Tamil)Rebus: eraka 'moltencast, metal infusion, copper'.khamba 'shoulder' rebus: kammaTa 'goldsmith, mint, coiner, coinage'

Rebus reading is: dhatu kõdā sã̄gāḍī eraka āra ‘mineral, turner, stone-smithy guild, copper, brass’ PLUS khambh 'shoulder' rebus: kammaTa 'mint, coiner, coinage'.

Standard device: (Top part: lathe-gimlet; Bottom part: portable furnace sã̄gāḍ Rebus: stone-cutter sangatarāśū ). sanghāḍo (Gujarati) cutting stone, gilding (Gujarati); sangsāru karaṇu = to stone (Sindhi) sanghāḍiyo, a worker on a lathe (Gujarati)

The procession is a celebration of the graduation of a stone-cutter as a metal-turner in a smithy/forge. A sangatarāśū ‘stone-cutter’ or lapidary of neolithic/chalolithic age had graduated into a metal turner’s workshop (koḍ), working with metallic minerals (dhatu) of the bronze age.

Three professions are described by the three hieroglyphs: scarf, young bull, standard device dhatu kõdāsã̄gāḍī Rebus words denote: ‘ mineral worker; metals turner-joiner (forge); worker on a lathe’ – associates (guild).

Rebus: पोळ [ pōḷa ] 'magnetite', ferrous-ferric oxide Fe3O4 (Asuri)

Rebus: cattle festival: पोळा [ pōḷā ] m (पोळ) A festive day for cattle,--the day of new moon of श्रावण or of भाद्रपद. Bullocks are exempted from labor; variously daubed and decorated; and paraded about in worship. "Pola is a bull-worshipping festival celebrated by farmers mainly in the Indian state of Maharashtra (especially among the Kunbis). On the day of Pola, the farmers decorate and worship their bulls. Pola falls on the day of the Pithori Amavasya (the new moon day) in the month of Shravana (usually in August)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pola_(festival) Festival held on the day after Sankranti ( = kANum) is called pōlāla paNDaga (Telugu).

Toy animals made for the Pola festival especially celebrated by the Dhanoje Kunbis. (Bemrose, Colo. Derby - Russell, Robert Vane (1916). The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India: volume IV. Descriptive articles on the principal castes and tribes of the Central Provinces. London: Macmillan and Co., limited. p. 40).

S. Kalyanaraman

Sarasvati Research Center

March 14, 2016

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Published: March 14, 2016 15:26 IST | Updated: March 14, 2016 15:32 IST Kolkata, March 14, 2016

Sting operation shows TMC leaders taking cash, ‘smear campaign’ says TMC

Kolkata Bureau

CPI(M) West Bengal State Secretary Surya Kanta Mishra: "it is matter of shame that this government is still continuing." File photo

With a full bench of Election Commission in the city and the leaders of all parties scheduled to meet the Commission, the issue is expected to snowball.

A sting operation carried out by a news website created a major political controversy in the election bound West Bengal on Monday with the Trinamool Congress [TMC] reacting sharply against the operation calling it a “smear campaign”.

TMC MP and party’s national spokesperson Derek O' Brien who claimed to have seen the video said, "This is at best a minor distraction on a Monday morning."

“We are all busy with elections now, so whoever has tried to concoct this smear campaign, may please go ahead and concoct your smear campaign or your videos, your doctored videos,” he said on his Facebook page.

Speaking to journalists Leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly, Surjya Kanta Mishra said that the sting has been carried out by one "Narada News".

He read names of TMC leaders from the story carried out by Narada News, along with the alleged bribe accepted by them as claimed by the website. The website has released footage of 12 top TMC leaders, including several MPs, Mayor of Municipal Corporation, Ministers and police officials taking cash from the representatives of a fictitious company, Impex Consultancy. It is not yet clear why they were taking money to the tune of five, 10 or 20 lakhs. Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee was heard saying that he will "introduce" the representatives to party chief Mamata Banerjee "after the election."

The footage could not be verified independently.

Reacting to the development, CPI(M) State secretary Surya Kanta Mishra said that, “it is matter of shame that this government is still continuing." Narada News claimed that they started their investigation "before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections."

With a full bench of Election Commission in the city and the leaders of all parties scheduled to meet the Commission, the issue is expected to snowball.

Both TMC and Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP] called a press conference later in the day. Press conference of CPI-M and Congress is also expected.

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Morning-after wisdom dawns

- Moneybags in a cosy bed with political parties

K.M. Rakesh

Mallya

Bangalore, March 13: Moneybags and the Rajya Sabha are no strangers but the Vijay Mallya scandal has managed to squeeze out a rare disclosure and a morning-after disclaimer: when the BJP supported him for the upper House, the party apparently did not know there was no money in the bag.
"We didn't know he had this much of debt," BJP veteran and former Karnataka chief minister Jagadish Shettar was quoted as saying in his hometown Hubli yesterday, referring to the industrialist's Rs 9,000-crore default.
In June 2010, it was widely reported that the BJP and the Janata Dal Secular had backed Mallya, who was contesting as an Independent candidate, for a second term in the Rajya Sabha. In the first term, Mallya was supported by the JDS and the Congress, which proves that love and lucre are blind.

Today, Shettar told The Telegraph in reply to a question that he was retracting his earlier statement that the BJP had made a "mistake" by supporting Mallya.
"Initially, I too thought we had voted for him. But I just checked the records and found we didn't support him. The party did not vote for Mallya in 2010. Only in 2002, six of our MLAs voted for Mallya. They were immediately suspended," Shettar said.
However, the BJP leader stood by one part of his statement, saying that "in any case, we didn't know he had such a huge debt on his businesses".
On the morning of June 17, 2010 - the day of the Rajya Sabha election - The Hindunewspaper had reported: "After a formal meeting of the BJP legislature party, it was announced that the surplus votes available with the party would be cast in favour of Mr. Mallya in the larger interest of defeating the Congress."
It is not clear why - other than the default scandal that has made Mallya a liability to his legion of favour-seekers and the BJP's allergy to the "suit-boot" label - the party with its army of fact-checkers waited for six long years to come up with the disclaimer on voting for Mallya.
Now that Mallya's six-year term is coming to an end in June, at what is proving to be an inopportune time for him as well his well-wishers across party lines, political circles here are locked in a guessing game on who will fill the vacancy.
H.D. Deve Gowda, former Prime Minister and leader of the JDS that has a history of sending businessmen to the Rajya Sabha, was silent on his party's would-be nominee while he rose to Mallya's defence yesterday.
Gowda chose last week, while television screens were strafing living rooms with images of Mallya in hot pursuit of pleasure and the social media were bringing the house down with jokes on the "poor" King Fisher, to have tea with N.R. Narayana Murthy, prompting some to read the tea leaves.
Asked, Murthy, the Infosys co-founder, dismissed any possibility of either him or his wife Sudha Murty running for the Rajya Sabha. "That's the biggest joke I've heard," Murthy told The Telegraph and guffawed. "He's our former Prime Minister and older than both of us (Murthy and his wife). So we had a casual chat and a cup of tea."
Of the four seats falling vacant in Karnataka, the ruling Congress would get two, while the BJP and the JDS have sufficient strength to ensure one each.
Political parties in several states field businessmen for the Rajya Sabha. Amar Singh and Anil Ambani had reached the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh on the support of the Samajwadi Party while industrialist K.D. Singh has been elected to the Rajya Sabha from Bengal on the strength of Trinamul votes.
But the Janata Dal Secular and Karnataka stand out on this count. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the telecom entrepreneur, inspired the JDS to mobilise support for him when he contested for the Rajya Sabha.
So did the late M.A.M Ramaswamy of the Chettinad Group, who too reached the Rajya Sabha with JDS support.
Gowda was not always this welcoming towards Rajya Sabha aspirants. When Ramakrishna Hegde, known for his craft as much as his charm, proposed the name of Ram Jethmalani for the Rajya Sabha, Gowda had opposed it. But Jethmalani, who fought a medical college admissions case in which Hegde and his son Bharath Hegde were allegedly involved, made it to the Rajya Sabha.
"We used to say it was Hegde's version of liberalism (importing a non-local candidate)," said Rajan Hunaswadi, former editor of the Kannada daily Samyukta Karnataka.
Mallya, with roots in Karnataka, is not an outsider in that sense. Gowda, who was in Lucknow to attend a wedding, could not be reached for comments. Y.S.V. Datta, the only JDS leader to openly declare he did not vote for Mallya, said: "But there was nothing I could do as the party took a decision to support him."
A Congress leader dabbling in Delhi politics told this newspaper he would not mind pitching for an RS nomination in June. He added in the same breath: "But I hope some billionaire won't emerge from nowhere."
The coincidence of wealthy apolitical players finding a cosy launch-pad in Karnataka has prompted some to wonder whether money in the form of generous donations has been playing a part.
"A rank outsider who happens to be wealthy, with a few thousand crores, getting chosen across party lines does generate these doubts," said Trilochan Sastry, a professor at IIM Bangalore who is associated with the National Election Watch, an independent group working for democratic reforms. But Sastry added that there was no concrete evidence of any payouts.
"The problem with such developments (rich businessmen getting tickets) is that they soon become a trend," said Hunaswadi. They did become one when Mallya became eager to step into Parliament in 2002.
Two years later, an unfortunate event illustrated the risk associated with popular elections and why some prefer the Rajya Sabha route to Parliament.
In 2004, Mallya fielded several candidates for the Karnataka Assembly polls under the banner of the Janata Party and chopper-hopped on the campaign trail.
One day near Bagalkot, Mallya's chopper crashed and broke up.
Mallya's then media secretary, C.B. Yeshvanth Kumar, who was waiting at the helipad to receive his boss, recalled: "I feared the worst.... I ran some distance through a dry field to the crash point, only to see him walking around the aircraft that had broken up into pieces."
All on board survived, Mallya with minor injuries to his leg. But his party suffered a debilitating blow in the elections and was virtually wiped out.
Six years down the line, Mallya did not take any chances. He knew how to return to Parliament and which parties would pave the way.

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Statue of Potr̥, पोतृ, signifies dhā̆vaḍ; Indus script 'dotted circle' signifies dhā̆vaḍ 'smelter' of dhāū, vaṭṭā 'red stone, mineral (iron ore)'

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Design of Indus writing system to signify dhā̆vaḍ'smelter' is seen in the choice of hieroglyph components: 1. string: dhāī 'wisp of fibers to create a twisted string' PLUS वटः vaṭa 'string' (as a semantic determinant); and 2. globule: वटः vaṭa 'globule'. These hieroglyph components constitute the fillet worn on the statue of 'purifier' Potr̥ on his right shoulder and on his forehead. Thus, the dotted circle and the badge (string) through the circle is signifies dhā̆vaḍ 'smelter'.

http://www.harappa.com/indus/79.html
Punctuated design (standard device) on both ends. Mohenjodaro.
See: gold fillet (plate) has 'standard device' hieroglyph.
Straight and curved gold fillet (metal plate). Mohenjodaro (Kenoyer)
Metal plate: paṭṭa1 m. ʻ slab, tablet ʼ MBh., °ṭaka -- m., °ṭikā -- f. Kathās. [Derivation as MIA. form of páttra -- (EWA ii 192), though very doubtful, does receive support from Dard. *paṭṭa -- ʻ leaf ʼ and meaning ʻ metal plate ʼ of several NIA. forms of páttra -- ]
Pa. paṭṭa -- m. ʻ slab, tablet ʼ; Pk. paṭṭa -- , °ṭaya -- m., °ṭiyā<-> f. ʻ slab of stone, board ʼ; NiDoc. paṭami loc. sg., paṭi ʻ tablet ʼ; K. paṭa m. ʻ slab, tablet, metal plate ʼ, poṭu m. ʻ flat board, leaf of door, etc. ʼ, püṭü f. ʻ plank ʼ, paṭürü f. ʻ plank over a watercourse ʼ (< -- aḍikā -- ); S. paṭo m. ʻ strip of paper ʼ, °ṭi f. ʻ boat's landing plank ʼ, °ṭī f. ʻ board to write on, rafter ʼ; L. paṭṭ m. ʻ thigh ʼ, f. ʻ beam ʼ, paṭṭā m. ʻ lease ʼ, °ṭī f. ʻ narrow strip of level ground ʼ; P. paṭṭ m. ʻ sandy plain ʼ, °ṭā m. ʻ board, title deed to land ʼ, °ṭī f. ʻ writing board ʼ; WPah.bhal. paṭṭ m. ʻ thigh ʼ, °ṭo m. ʻ central beam of house ʼ; Ku. pāṭo ʻ millstone ʼ, °ṭī ʻ board, writing board ʼ; N. pāṭo ʻ strip, plot of land, side ʼ, °ṭi ʻ tablet, slate, inn ʼ; A. pāṭ ʻ board ʼ, paṭā ʻ stone slab for grinding on ʼ; B. pāṭ, °ṭā ʻ board, bench, stool, throne ʼ, °ṭi ʻ anything flat, rafter ʼ; Or. pāṭa ʻ plain, throne ʼ, °ṭi, paṭā ʻ wooden plank, metal plate ʼ; Bi. pāṭ ʻ wedge fixing beam to body of plough, washing board ʼ, °ṭī ʻ side -- piece of bed, stone to grind spices on ʼ, (Gaya) paṭṭā ʻ wedge ʼ; Mth. pāṭ ʻ end of handle of mattock projecting beyond blade ʼ, °ṭā ʻ wedge for beam of plough ʼ; OAw. pāṭa m. ʻ plank, seat ʼ; H. pāṭ, °ṭā m. ʻ slab, plank ʼ, °ṭī ʻ side -- piece of bed ʼ, paṭṭā m. ʻ board on which to sit while eating ʼ; OMarw. pāṭī f. ʻ plank ʼ; OG. pāṭīuṁ n. ʻ plank ʼ, pāṭalaü m. ʻ dining stool ʼ; G. pāṭ f., pāṭlɔ m. ʻ bench ʼ, pāṭɔ m. ʻ grinding stone ʼ, °ṭiyũ n. ʻ plank ʼ, °ṭṛɔ m., °ṭṛī f. ʻ beam ʼ; M. pāṭ m. ʻ bench ʼ, °ṭā m. ʻ grinding stone, tableland ʼ, °ṭī f. ʻ writing board ʼ; Si. paṭa ʻ metal plate, slab ʼ. -- Deriv.: N. paṭāunu ʻ to spread out ʼ; H. pāṭnā ʻ to roof ʼ.(CDIAL 7699)பட்டம்² paṭṭam, n. < paṭṭa. 1. Plate of gold worn on the forehead, as an ornament or badge of distinction; சிறப்புக்கு அறிகுறியாக நெற்றி யிலணியும் பொற்றகடு. பட்டமுங் குழையு மின்ன (சீவக. 472). 2. An ornament worn on the forehead by women; மாதர் நுதலணி. பட்டங் கட்டிப்பொற்றோடு பெய்து (திவ். பெரியாழ். 3, 7, 6). 3. Title, appellation of dignity, title of office; பட்டப்பெயர். பட்டமும் பசும்பொற் பூணும் பரந்து (சீவக. 112).

An expression dhā̆vaḍ signifies 'iron smelter'. The expression is composed of: dhāū,'red stone' reinforced semantically by vaṭṭā, baṭṭā, m. ʻstoneʼ.

M. dhāū, dhāv m.f. ʻ a partic. soft red stone ʼ (whence dhā̆vaḍ m. ʻ a caste of iron -- smelters ʼ, dhāˊtu n. ʻ substance ʼ RV., m. ʻ element ʼ MBh., ʻ metal, mineral, ore (esp. of a red colour) ʼ Mn., ʻashes of the dead ʼ lex., - Si. dā ʻ relic ʼ; -- Pa. dhātu -- m. ʻ element, ashes of the dead, relic ʼ; KharI. dhatu ʻ relic ʼ; Pk. dhāu -- m. ʻ metal, red chalk ʼ; N. dhāu ʻ ore (esp. of copper) ʼ; Or. ḍhāu ʻ red chalk, red ochre ʼ (whence ḍhāuā ʻ reddish ʼ M. dhāvḍī ʻ composed of or relating to iron ʼ);(CDIAL 6773).धवड (p. 436) [ dhavaḍa ] m (Or धावड) A class or an individual of it. They are smelters of iron.धावड (p. 437) [ dhāvaḍa ] m A class or an individual of it. धावडी (p. 437) [ dhāvaḍī ] a Relating to the class धावड. Hence 2 Composed of or relating to iron.

*varta3 ʻ round stone ʼ. 2. *vārta -- . [Cf. Kurd. bard ʻ stone ʼ. -- √vr̥t1]1. Gy. eur. bar, SEeur. bai̦ ʻ stone ʼ, pal. wăṭ, wŭṭ ʻ stone, cliff ʼ; Ḍ. boṭ m. ʻ stone ʼ, Ash. Wg. wāṭ, Kt. woṭ, Dm. bɔ̈̄'ṭ, Tir. baṭ, Niṅg. bōt, Woṭ. baṭ m., Gmb. wāṭ; Gaw. wāṭ ʻ stone, millstone ʼ; Kal.rumb. bat ʻ stone ʼ (bad -- váṣ ʻ hail ʼ), Kho. bort, Bshk. baṭ, Tor. bāṭ, Mai. (Barth) "bhāt" NTS xviii 125, Sv. bāṭ, Phal. bā̆ṭ; Sh.gil. băṭ m. ʻ stone ʼ, koh.băṭṭ m., jij. baṭ, pales. baṭ ʻ millstone ʼ; K. waṭh, dat. °ṭas m. ʻ round stone ʼ, vüṭü f. ʻ small do. ʼ; L. vaṭṭā m. ʻ stone ʼ, khet. vaṭ ʻ rock ʼ; P. baṭṭ m. ʻ a partic. weight ʼ, vaṭṭā, ba°m. ʻ stone ʼ, vaṭṭī f. ʻ pebble ʼ; WPah.bhal. baṭṭ m. ʻ small round stone ʼ; Or. bāṭi ʻ stone ʼ; Bi. baṭṭā ʻ stone roller for spices, grindstone ʼ. -- With unexpl. -- ṭṭh -- : Sh.gur. baṭṭhm. ʻ stone ʼ, gil. baṭhāˊ m. ʻ avalanche of stones ʼ, baṭhúi f. ʻ pebble ʼ (suggesting also an orig. *vartuka -- which Morgenstierne sees in Kho. place -- name bortuili, cf. *vartu -- , vartula -- ).2. Paš.lauṛ. wāṛ, kuṛ. wō ʻ stone ʼ, Shum. wāṛ.(CDIAL 11348)
dhāˊtu *strand of rope ʼ (cf. tridhāˊtu -- ʻ threefold ʼ RV., ayugdhātu -- ʻ having an uneven number of strands ʼ KātyŚr.). [√dhā]
S. dhāī f. ʻ wisp of fibres added from time to time to a rope that is being twisted ʼ, L. dhāī˜ f.(CDIAL 6773).
वट [p= 914,3] string , rope , tie L. (only वट ibc. , and पञ्च-व्° , q.v.); a small lump, globule = वटक S3a1rn3gS.वटः vaṭḥ वटः [वट्-अच् Uṇ.4.116] The fig-tree; अयं च चित्रकूट- यायिनि वर्त्मनि वटः श्यामो नाम U.1; R.13.53. -2 A small shell or cowrie. -3 A small ball, globule, pill. -4 A round figure, a cipher. -5 A kind of cake; पयःस्मिता मण्डकमण्डनाम्बरा वटाननेन्दुः पृथुलड्डु स्तनी N.16.17. -6 A string, rope; (n. also in this sense). -7 Equality in shape. -8 A sort of bird, flying fox ? (Mar. वटवाघुळ); कङ्कगृध्रवटश्येनभासभल्लकबर्हिणः Bhāg.3.1.24. -9 A pawn (in chess). -1 Sulphur. -Comp. -पत्रम् a variety of the white basil. (-त्रा) a jasmine. -वासिन् m. a Yakṣa.वटकः 1 A kind of cake. -2 A small lump, ball, globule, pill. -3 A particular weight of 8 māṣas. (Samskrtam. Apte)வடம்¹ vaṭam, n. < vaṭa. 1. Cable, large rope, as for drawing a temple-car; கனமான கயிறு. வடமற்றது (நன். 219, மயிலை.). 2. Cord; தாம்பு. (சூடா.) 3. A loop of coir rope, used for climbing palm-trees; மரமேறவுதவுங் கயிறு. Loc. 4. Bowstring; வில்லின் நாணி. (பிங்.) 5. String of jewels; மணிவடம். வடங்கள் அசையும்படி உடுத்து (திருமுரு. 204, உரை). (சூடா.) 6. Strands of a garland; chains of a necklace; சரம். இடை மங்கை கொங்கை வடமலைய (அஷ்டப். திருவேங்கடத் தந். 39). 7. Arrangement; ஒழுங்கு. தொடங்கற் காலை வடம்பட விளங்கும் (ஞானா. 14, 41). 8. Banyan; ஆலமரம். (சூடா.) வடநிழற்கண்ணூடிருந்த குருவே (தாயு. கருணா. 41).செபமாலை cepa-mālai, n. < id. +. 1. See செபவடம். (சைவச. பொது. 144.) 2. String of golden beads, worn by women; மாதரின் அணிகலவகை. (W.)செபவடம் cepa-vaṭam, n. < id. +. Rosary; செபமாலை. வந்தான் செபவடக் கரமுந் தானும் (திருவாலவா. 35, 25). தாழ்வடம் tāḻ-vaṭam
, n. < id. +. 1. [M. tāḻvaṭam.] Necklace of pearls or beads; கழுத் தணி. தாவி றாழ்வடம் தயங்க (சீவக. 2426). 2. String of Rudrākṣa beads; உருத்திராக்கமாலை. மார்பின்மீதிலே தாழ்வடஙகள் மனதிலே கரவடமாம் (தண்டலை. சத. 29).

What do the headbands or fillets on artefacts, say, of statues of eminent persons, signify? paṭṭa is a badge of distinction. The wearer of the badge is recognized as a guide. It is an appellation of dignity, of high office in a community. Hence, the priests, purifiers, Potr̥, पोतृ, are identified by the paṭṭa 'badge' or fillet. Potr̥, पोतृ, are signified by trefoils: kolom 'three' Rebus: kolimi 'smithy,forge' PLUS Dotted circle khaṇḍa ‘A piece, bit, fragment, portion’; kandi ‘bead’ Rebus: khaṇḍā ‘tools, pots and pans and metal-ware’; kanda 'fire-altar'. pot ʻ glass bead ʼ (Bengali) Rebus: पोतृ [p= 650,1] प्/ओतृ or पोतृ, m. " Purifier " , N. of one of the 16 officiating priests at a sacrifice (the assistant of the Brahman ; = यज्ञस्य शोधयिट्रि Sa1y. ) RV. Br. S3rS. Hariv. Rebus: போற்றி pōṟṟi, < id. n. 1. Praise, applause, commendation; புகழ்மொழி. (W.) 2.Brahman temple-priest of Malabar; கோயிற் பூசைசெய்யும் மலையாளநாட்டுப் பிராமணன். (W.) 3. See போத்தி, 1.--int. Exclamation of praise; துதிச்சொல்வகை. பொய்தீர் காட்சிப் புரையோய் போற்றி (சிலப். 13, 92).போத்தி pōtti, n. < போற்றி. 1. Grandfather; பாட்டன். Tinn. 2. Brahman temple- priest in Malabar; மலையாளத்திலுள்ள கோயிலருச் சகன்.
He is, during the historical periods, पोतदार (p. 532) [ pōtadāra ] m ( P) An officer under the native governments. His business was to assay all money paid into the treasury. He was also the village-silversmith.पोतडी (p. 532) [ pōtaḍī ] f पोतडें n (पोतें) A bag, esp. the circular bag of goldsmiths, shroffs &c. containing their weights, scales, coins &c.

Two decorated bases and a lingam. Mohenjo-daro.

Trefoil inlay decorated base to hold a s'ivalinga.When engraved on the base of s'ivalinga, the three dotted circles signify:
dhā̆vaḍ 'smelter' of tridhAtu 'three minerals'. The linga signifies khamba 'pillar, post' rebus: kammaTa, kampaTTa 'mint, coiner, coinage'. Thus, together, the base with trefoils and the cylindical pillar as a fiery pillar of light signifies smelting process in a mint.

Evolution of Brahmi script syllables ḍha-, dha- traced from Indus Script hieroglyph dotted circle, dām 'rope (single strand or string?)', dã̄u

ʻtyingʼ, ḍāv m. ʻdice-throwʼ rebus: dhāu 'ore'

The fillet worn on the forehead and on the right-shoulder signifies one strand; while the trefoil on the shawl signifies three strands. A hieroglyph for two strands is also signified.

Single strand (one dotted-circle)

Two strands (pair of dotted-circles)

Three strands (three dotted-circles as a trefoil)

These orthographic variants provide semantic elucidations for a single: dhātu, dhāū, dhāv 'red stone mineral' or two minerals: dul PLUS dhātu, dhāū, dhāv 'cast minerals' or tri- dhātu, -dhāū, -dhāv 'three minerals' to create metal alloys'. The artisans producing alloys are dhā̆vaḍ m. ʻa caste of iron -- smeltersʼ, dhāvḍī ʻcomposed of or relating to ironʼ)(CDIAL 6773)..

dām 'rope, string' rebus: dhāu 'ore' rebus: मेढा [mēḍhā] A twist or tangle arising in thread or cord, a curl or snarl (Marathi). Rebus: meḍ 'iron, copper' (Munda. Slavic) mẽṛhẽt, meḍ 'iron' (Munda).

Semantics of single strand of rope and three strands of rope are: 1. Sindhi dhāī f. ʻ wisp of fibres added from time to time to a rope that is being twisted ʼ, Lahnda dhāī˜ id.; 2. tridhāˊtu -- ʻ threefold ʼ (RigVeda)

Evolution ḍha-, dha- in Brahmi script syllables are evocative of 'string' and 'circle, dotted circle' as may be seen from the following orthographic evidence of epigraphs dated from ca. 300 BCE:

It may be seen from the table of evoution of Brahmi script orthography that

1. a circle signified the Brahmi syllable 'ṭha-' and a dotted circle signified the syllable 'tha-';

2. a string with a twist signified the syllable 'da-', a string ending in a circled twist signified the syllable 'ḍha-' and a stepped string signified the syllable 'ḍa-'.

Section 4: Orthograhy of Brahmi syllabary from ca. 300 BCE

Section 5: Examples of dotted circles on Indus Script Corpora; association with 'fire-altars', 'smelting'

Dilmun seal from Barbar; six heads of antelope radiating from a circle; similar to animal protomes in Failaka, Anatolia and Indus. Obverse of the seal shows four dotted circles. [Poul Kjaerum, The Dilmun Seals as evidence of long distance relations in the early second millennium BC, pp. 269-277.] A tree is shown on this Dilmun seal.Glyph: ‘tree’: kuṭi ‘tree’. Rebus: kuṭhi ‘smelter furnace’ (Santali).

baTa 'six' Rebus: bhaTa 'furnace' ranku 'antelope' Rebus: ranku 'tin'

Izzat Allah Nigahban, 1991, Excavations at Haft Tepe, Iran, The University Museum, UPenn, p. 97. furnace’ Fig.96a.

There is a possibility that this seal impression from Haft Tepe had some connections with Indian hieroglyphs. This requires further investigation. “From Haft Tepe (Middle Elamite period, ca. 13th century) in Ḵūzestān an unusual pyrotechnological installation was associated with a craft workroom containing such materials as mosaics of colored stones framed in bronze, a dismembered elephant skeleton used in manufacture of bone tools, and several hundred bronze arrowpoints and small tools. “Situated in a courtyard directly in front of this workroom is a most unusual kiln. This kiln is very large, about 8 m long and 2 and one half m wide, and contains two long compartments with chimneys at each end, separated by a fuel chamber in the middle. Although the roof of the kiln had collapsed, it is evident from the slight inturning of the walls which remain in situ that it was barrel vaulted like the roofs of the tombs. Each of the two long heating chambers is divided into eight sections by partition walls. The southern heating chamber contained metallic slag, and was apparently used for making bronze objects. The northern heating chamber contained pieces of broken pottery and other material, and thus was apparently used for baking clay objects including tablets . . .” (loc.cit. Bronze in pre-Islamic Iran, Encyclopaedia Iranica, http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bronze-i Negahban, 1977; and forthcoming).

Dotted circles and three lines on the obverse of many Failaka/Dilmun seals are read rebus as hieroglyphs:

Hieroglyph: ḍāv m. ʻdice-throwʼ rebus: dhāu 'ore'; dã̄u ʻtyingʼ, ḍāv m. ʻdice-throwʼ read rebus: dhāu 'ore' in the context of glosses: dhā̆vaḍ m. ʻa caste of iron -smelters', dhāvḍī ʻcomposed of or relating to ironʼ. Thus, three dotted circles signify: tri-dhāu, tri-dhātu 'three ores' (copper, tin, iron).

A (गोटा) gōṭā Spherical or spheroidal, pebble-form. (Marathi) Rebus: khoṭā ʻalloyedʼ (metal) (Marathi) खोट [khōṭa] f A mass of metal (unwrought or of old metal melted down); an ingot or wedge (Marathi). P. khoṭ m. ʻalloyʼ (CDIAL 3931)

Composition of two horned animals, sitting human playing a four-string musical instrument, a star and a moon.

The rebus reading of hieroglyphs are: తంబుర [tambura] or తంబురా tambura. [Tel. తంతి+బుర్ర.] n. A kind of stringed instrument like the guitar. A tambourine. Rebus: tam(b)ra 'copper' tambabica, copper-ore stones; samṛobica, stones containing gold (Mundari.lex.) tagara 'antelope'. Rebus 1: tagara 'tin' (ore) tagromi 'tin, metal alloy' (Kuwi) Rebus 2: damgar 'merchant'.

Thus the seal connotes a merchant of tin and copper.

m0008 Mohenjo-daro seal. This shows the bottom bowl of the 'standard device' superimposed with dotted circles. Since the top portion of the 'device' is a drill-lathe, these dotted circles are orthographic representations of drilled beads which were the hallmark of lapidaries' work of the civilization.

See: http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2011/09/meluhha-epigraphia-indus-language.html

Standard device. A glyph composition glyph which occurs as frequently as the one-horned heifer is the 'standard device' in front of the heifer. The standard device is also a hieroglyph, san:gad.a 'lathe'; rebus: furnace. The word san:gad.a can also be denoted by a glyph of combined animals. The bottom portion of the 'standard device' is sometimes depicted with 'dotted circles'. khangar ghongor 'full of holes'; (Santali) rebus: kangar 'portable furnace' (Kashmiri). This device also occurs by itself and as variants on 19 additional epigraphs, in one case held aloft like a banner in a procession which also includes the glyph of the one-horned heifer as one of the banners carried.

Globules on the hieroglyph-multiplex of seal m0352 signify: *varta3 ʻ round stone ʼ. 2. *vārta -- . [Cf. Kurd. bard ʻ stone ʼ. -- √vr̥t1]1. Gy. eur. bar, SEeur. bai̦ ʻ stone ʼ, pal. wăṭ, wŭṭ ʻ stone, cliff ʼ; Ḍ. boṭ m. ʻ stone ʼ, Ash. Wg. wāṭ, Kt. woṭ, Dm. bɔ̈̄'ṭ, Tir. baṭ, Niṅg. bōt, Woṭ. baṭ m., Gmb. wāṭ; Gaw. wāṭ ʻ stone, millstone ʼ; Kal.rumb. bat ʻ stone ʼ (bad -- váṣ ʻ hail ʼ), Kho. bort, Bshk. baṭ, Tor. bāṭ, Mai. (Barth) "bhāt" NTS xviii 125, Sv. bāṭ, Phal. bā̆ṭ; Sh.gil. băṭ m. ʻ stone ʼ, koh.băṭṭ m., jij. baṭ, pales. baṭ ʻ millstone ʼ; K. waṭh, dat. °ṭas m. ʻ round stone ʼ, vüṭü f. ʻ small do. ʼ; L. vaṭṭā m. ʻ stone ʼ, khet. vaṭ ʻ rock ʼ; P. baṭṭ m. ʻ a partic. weight ʼ, vaṭṭā, ba°m. ʻ stone ʼ, vaṭṭī f. ʻ pebble ʼ; WPah.bhal. baṭṭ m. ʻ small round stone ʼ; Or. bāṭi ʻ stone ʼ; Bi. baṭṭā ʻ stone roller for spices, grindstone ʼ. -- With unexpl. -- ṭṭh -- : Sh.gur. baṭṭhm. ʻ stone ʼ, gil. baṭhāˊ m. ʻ avalanche of stones ʼ, baṭhúi f. ʻ pebble ʼ (suggesting also an orig. *vartuka -- which Morgenstierne sees in Kho. place -- name bortuili, cf. *vartu -- , vartula -- ).2. Paš.lauṛ. wāṛ, kuṛ. wō ʻ stone ʼ, Shum. wāṛ.(CDIAL 11348)

m0352 cdefLarge-sized 'dot', dotted circles and + glyph shown on this Mohenjo-daro seal m0352 with dotted circles repeated on 5 sides A to F. Mohenjo-daro Seal m0352 shows dotted circles in the four corners of a fire-altar and at the centre of the altar together with four raised 'bun' ingot-type rounded features or globules.

Together the 'string' (denoted by the cross-section of a string as a dotted circle) PLUS globule signify: dhā̆vaḍ 'smelter' of dhāū,vaṭṭā 'red stone, mineral (iron ore)'. The dotted circles and globules are circumscribed by a kaṇḍ ‘furnace, fire-altar’ of shape +.

Rebus readings of m0352 hieroglyphs:

dhātu 'layer, strand'; dhāv 'strand, string' Rebus: dhāu, dhātu 'ore'

1. Round dot like a blob -- . Glyph: raised large-sized dot -- (gōṭī ‘round pebble);goTa 'laterite (ferrite ore)

2. Dotted circle khaṇḍa ‘A piece, bit, fragment, portion’; kandi ‘bead’;

3. A + shaped structure where the glyphs 1 and 2 are infixed. The + shaped structure is kaṇḍ ‘a fire-altar’ (which is associated with glyphs 1 and 2)..

Rebus readings are: 1. khoṭ m. ʻalloyʼgoTa 'laterite (ferrite ore); 2. khaṇḍā ‘tools, pots and pans and metal-ware’; 3. kaṇḍ ‘furnace, fire-altar, consecrated fire’.

Four ‘round spot’; glyphs around the ‘dotted circle’ in the center of the composition: gōṭī ‘round pebble; Rebus 1: goTa 'laterite (ferrite ore); Rebus 2:L. khoṭf ʻalloy, impurityʼ, °ṭā ʻalloyedʼ, awāṇ. khoṭā ʻforgedʼ; P. khoṭ m. ʻbase, alloyʼ M.khoṭā ʻalloyedʼ (CDIAL 3931) Rebus 3: kōṭhī ] f (कोष्ट S) A granary, garner, storehouse, warehouse, treasury, factory, bank. khoṭā ʻalloyedʼ metal is produced from kaṇḍ ‘furnace, fire-altar’ yielding khaṇḍā ‘tools, pots and pans and metal-ware’.

This word khaṇḍā is also denoted by the dotted circles (in a secondary rebus reading: kandi 'bead' rebus: khaNDA 'tools, implements'.

S. Kalyanaraman

Sarasvati Research Center

March 14, 2016

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Burre Din for the 'corrupt'. NCP leader and ex-Maharashtra Deputy CM Chhagan Bhujbal was arrested yesterday by the Enforcement Directorate in an alleged money laundering case regarding the construction of the Maharashtra Sadan in New Delhi and the Kalina Central Library, works which were awarded when he was the state PWD minister. The agency has alleged that Bhujbal received cash in lieu of projects awarded to contractors and channeled such illegal cash into various companies and integrated it into business activities.

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Rs 4,000-crore USL funds transfer under scanner

RBI, Enforcement Directorate to see if money was sent to tax haven

Dev Chatterjee & PTI | Mumbai March 15, 2016 Last Updated at 00:59 IST

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Reserve Bank of India have launched a probe into the transfer of Rs 4,000 crore from United Spirits Ltd (USL) to the British Virgin Islands in early 2007 by the company before it was taken over by Diageo in 2012.

A probe into the transfer was first ordered by a division Bench of the Karnataka High Court on December 20, 2013, but there was no follow up by the agencies. With the Narendra Modi government taking an aggressive stand on defaulters, the ED and RBI have been asked to look into USL's transactions and call for relevant papers from the company and Diageo, its new owner, said an official close to the development. Under Diageo, USL now has a new management with its former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) P A Murali quitting on April 23, 2015.

A mail sent to Diageo did not elicit any response, while a UB Group spokesperson declined to comment.

During the hearing in the high court, lenders had argued that the money was transferred to the tax haven without proper documentation and these needed to be probed. But USL had argued that the money was transferred for the acquisition of Whyte & Mackay in May 2007, in a deal worth around $1.2 billion. After Diageo took over USL, it sold Whyte & Mackay in 2014 at a 25 per cent discount to the 2007 acquisition price. The proceeds of the sale were not brought to India and were used to repay foreign loans. Interestingly, the proceeds of the 2012 sale of USL by Mallya to Diageo were also not brought to India and were parked in Mallya's offshore accounts.

Corporate lawyers said while non-disclosure or wrong disclosures by UB Group can be investigated by RBI, ED will look into the money laundering aspect.

The investigation will involve calling of annual reports since the transaction, auditor reports, company filings with RBI and from foreign banks.

Citibank was the financier of the Whyte & Mackay acquisition and the bank was also USL's lender in India. Corporate lawyers said as annual reports between 2010 and 2013 are disputed and, according to Diageo, were cooked by Mallya, it would be difficult for the agencies to rely on these.

Rs 4,000-crore USL funds transfer under scanner

"There is a complex web of transactions between United Spirits, Diageo, foreign banks and Mallya entities in the past four years. The ED will have to hire forensic auditors to clear the maze," said a source close to the development. "The relevant officials of USL will also be called in for investigation," the official said.

The ED is already investigating how funds from Kingfisher Airlines vanished overseas. It is questioning top officials, including UB group CFO Ravi Nedungadi and Kingfisher Airlines CFO A Raghunathan. The ED also summoned UB group Chairman Vijay Mallya on Friday to participate in investigations. USL was formed in 2006 by merging McDowell & Co, Shaw Wallace & Co, Herbertsons Ltd and other liquor companies in the UB group to become India's largest liquor company.

RS probe

Meanwhile, the Ethics Committee of Rajya Sabha headed by Congress veteran Karan Singh on Monday took cognisance of Vijay Mallya's alleged default on around Rs 9,000 crore of bank loans.

Acting on the notices given by Opposition members, Chairman of the Upper House Hamid Ansari referred the matter to the panel.

"The question regarding Mallya was earlier raised in the House in the morning. The Chairman referred the matter to the Ethics Committee. Our meeting was decided earlier. There were two more issues. Now we have taken up this third issue as well," Singh told reporters after the panel meeting.

Second summons if Mallya misses first date

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will issue a second summons to liquor baron Vijay Mallya if he fails to depose before the agency on Friday. The ED wants to question him under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Mallya, however, has the option of seeking a change in the date, said an ED official.

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Sting claims TMC leaders took cash, party ‘dismissive’

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WHO DID & SAID WHAT

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Images resembling the following 14 persons feature on a tape released by Narada News, a portal, after a purported sting operation before the Lok Sabha elections in 2014.... | Read..

| Tuesday , March 15 , 2016 |

'I am looking after everything for Mamatadi'

Narada News footage shows a person resembling Sovan Chatterjee, Calcutta mayor and Trinamul MLA, with a wad of cash in his left hand. In his right hand is a towel with which he wraps the bundles soon after. He is also heard saying: “Mamatadir purotai ami dekhe nichhi (I am looking after everything for Mamatadi).” The Telegraph has not been able to independently verify the authenticity of the footage. Asked, Chatterjee said on Monday evening: “I don’t want to comment. The party spokesperson has already spoken on the issue.” Trinamul spokesperson Derek O’Brien said: “There is no sting in it. We are completely dismissive about it.”

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160315/jsp/frontpage/story_74619.jsp#.Vudwf1R97IU

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March 14: Saradha once, Narada now.

A sting operation by a news portal has shown images resembling almost every lieutenant of Mamata Banerjee grabbing wads of cash or telling a representative of a fictitious company where to hand over the money to ensure favours for the firm.

The images on the tape resembled some of the most familiar faces that surround the chief minister and wield power: Subrata Mukherjee, Sovan Chatterjee, Mukul Roy, Sultan Ahmad, Subhendu Adhikari, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Prasun Banerjee, Madan Mitra and Saugata Roy.

The ownership of the sting for the portal, Narada News, has been taken by Mathew Samuel, who was part of the pioneering Tehelka operation that felled the then BJP president Bangaru Laxman in 2001.

The Trinamul Congress has dismissed the sting as a dirty tricks campaign by a desperate Opposition. The following points have been cited by party sources to dismiss the operation as a smear campaign.

• The Bengal sting operation was carried out before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, almost two years ago.

• The timing of the disclosure - close to the Assembly polls next month - raises questions. So does the motive behind the nearly two-year wait.

• The authenticity of the footage is yet to be verified. However, the Trinamul rebuttal appeared to focus on questioning the timing and the motive, not on outright denial that such encounters had taken place at all.

But the Opposition is banking on the following factors:

• The all-season honesty wall Mamata has erected around Trinamul no longer looks impregnable.

• Narada will be the issue of the campaign for the Assembly elections.

• Trinamul is dismissing the sting as inconsequential but Mamata should remember that she walked out of the Vajpayee government over the Tehelka issue. "Now, why is she silent?" asked Pradip Bhattacharya, Congress MP.

• Legal issues are involved. After the Tehelka operation, a CBI special judge had settled two key questions. One, the judge held that a bribe taker is liable for action even if the money was given on behalf of a fictitious entity. Two, the journalists could not be made defendants as they had acted as whistleblowers although the methods they had adopted could be considered objectionable. Laxman was eventually convicted.

Without referring to the sting, Mamata said today: "The CPM, the Congress and the BJP have come together and resorted to dirty politics. They cannot fight us politically and are trying to malign us. The people will give them a fitting reply."

"The Saradha controversy could not affect us. Let us see what the Narada video does to our party," said a Trinamul insider.

However, party leaders conceded in private that the Opposition appeared to have stumbled on a goldmine on the eve of the elections.

"Undoubtedly, the poll campaign would now be focused on the sting. This time, the battle would be very close as the Opposition parties have ganged up.... In a closely contested election, such issues may have an impact," said a Trinamul leader.

Never have images resembling so many household names in Bengal been shown taking money - that too with an impunity that radiated a sense of immunity.

The cringe-worthiness of some of the statements mouthed by the images is unparalleled. Samples: Asked by the representative of the fictitious Impex Consultancy whether he wanted more, one person says: "If you have." Another says: "This (election) expenditure observer, if they got a clue or something, this party will be wiped out. This party will go for a sixer."

And one person takes the cake by declaring: "If we get involved in small stuff, what will the kids do?"

A person resembling Calcutta mayor Sovan Chatterjee is seen boasting, while receiving bundles of cash and wrapping them in a towel as if it is an everyday chore: "Mamatadir purotai ami dekhe nichchhi (I am looking after everything for Mamatadi)."

The trumpeting runs the risk of cracking open what has so far been seen as an invincible armour that Mamata has built around her party: honesty.

Saradha found some chinks in the armour but before the rapier thrust could be made, the investigation appeared to have lost steam amid whispers that a quid pro quo had been struck in New Delhi. Ironically, the Saradha scam was made an issue in the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha polls not by the Bengal tigers but by the would-be Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.

Narada has picked up from where Saradha had left off.

Trinamul's official reaction was guarded, laying stress on the circumstances under which the footage was released and without going into specifics such as whether the leaders had met the representative of the fictitious company or not.

Trinamul spokesperson Derek O'Brien said in a statement: "We have watched the video of the so-called 'sting' operation. There is no sting in it. We are completely dismissive about it.

"All I can say to our shameless political opponents is, come, fight us politically. Do not take recourse to your dirty tricks department. The timing of the dirty tricks video too clearly indicates the devious motive behind it. Why was the organisation who supposedly shot this video hiding the so-called 'truth' for more than two years and releasing it today?

"We are focused on the upcoming elections and do not wish to be distracted by this smear campaign. We live in an age where technology is often abused.

"This is a deliberate attempt to malign the All India Trinamool Congress. But the people of Bengal know better. They trust the credibility and credentials of Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress. After the people have spoken on 19 May (Assembly poll result day), you will see for yourselves what the people of Bengal think of this so-called 'sting' operation."

Unsurprisingly, the Opposition lapped up the footage and upped the ante on Mamata.

"I have received this video. This is how public money is being looted in Bengal. The EC should step in. If required, President's rule should be imposed while the case is probed," said Surjya Kanta Mishra, state CPM secretary.

CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury, who said the tapes appeared to be genuine but sought an investigation to establish their veracity, said: "Parliament should also take cognisance of this sting operation and act as MPs have been shown taking money."

The Congress, the Left's tactical ally, said the polls should be deferred till a probe was carried out.

" Asli chehra nikal aaya hai (Their real face has come out)," said BJP national secretary and co-minder for the state, Sidharth Nath Singh. "All big leaders have been exposed in the sting operation. Mamata must resign immediately.... We have written to the CBI director."

On a day the full bench of the Election Commission of India was in Calcutta, the BJP requested the central poll panel to bar the accused ministers from contesting the polls. Other political parties also brought the matter to the poll panel's attention.

The sting coincided with the ninth anniversary of the Nandigram carnage, which helped catapult Mamata to power in 2011.

Another milestone date: the Bangaru tapes were released on March 13, 2001. Today is March 14, the eve of the Ides of March.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160315/jsp/frontpage/story_74616.jsp#.VudwvVR97IU

WHO DID & SAID WHAT

Images resembling the following 14 persons feature on a tape released by Narada News, a portal, after a purported sting operation before the Lok Sabha elections in 2014. The Trinamul Congress has dismissed the tape as a dirty tricks campaign. The Telegraph has been unable to verify the authenticity of the tape.The news portal says it floated a fictitious company, Impex Consultancy, and approached the Trinamul MPs, ministers and other leaders to seek favours

S.M.H. MEERZA the then Burdwan SP

Seen on tape: Sitting on a sofa, accepting wads of currency notes and keeping them aside

Heard on tape: Mukulda is very frank with me….

Response on Monday: I will not comment on this

MUKUL ROY the then Trinamul all-India general secretary

Seen: Sitting behind a table at his home

Heard: Give it to my office. I’m not taking it

straightaway…. I’ll tell my men, you give it to them

Response: It is a doctored video…. We’ll take legal action against the portal

SUBRATA MUKHERJEE panchayat and public health engineering minister

Seen: Sitting behind a table, first accepts a visiting card and then wads of currency notes

Heard: The Impex

Consultancy representative says: “Sir, here’s four….” Reply: “OK”

Response: Could not be contacted; his mobile was off when this newspaper called around 8.30pm

SULTAN AHMAD Trinamul MP from Uluberia

Seen: Bundles of currency notes are placed in front of him and he keeps the money aside after counting

Heard: The Impex Consultancy representative: “You want more?” Reply: “If you have….”

Response: All the allegations are

fabricated…. It’s a smear campaign against us

SAUGATA ROY Trinamul MP from Dumdum

Seen: Accepting bundles of currency notes and putting them in his kurta pocket

Heard: It’s a lot of money. Thanks.

Response: Could not be contacted as his phone was switched off when this newspaper called at 8.32pm

SUBHENDU ADHIKARI (Referred to as Sukanto Adhikari in the video voiceover), Trinamul MP from Tamluk

Seen: Receiving something wrapped in a newspaper and keeping it aside

Heard: The Impex Consultancy representative: “Five lakh rupees, Sir.” Adhikari says nothing

Response: It’s a false allegation

KAKOLI GHOSH DASTIDAR Trinamul MP from Barasat

Seen: Receiving wads of currency notes and putting it aside

Heard: The Impex Consultancy representative: “This is for you.” Reply: “OK”

Response: This is a political conspiracy. This is not true

PRASUN BANERJEE Trinamul MP from Howrah

Seen: Receiving wads of currency notes

Heard: The Impex Consultancy representative says: “Sir, this is 4 lakh rupees.” No reply

Response: Did not answer his phone but sent a text message saying he was at a meeting

SOVAN CHATTERJEE Calcutta mayor and Trinamul MLA

Seen: Receiving wads of currency notes and wrapping them in a towel

Heard: I am looking after everything for Mamatadi

Response: I don’t want to comment. The party spokesperson has already spoken on the issue

MADAN MITRA the then transport minister

Seen: Accepting wads of currency notes and putting them aside

Heard: “Keep the money aside…. Open that drawer,” Madan tells an aide

Response: Mitra could not be contacted as he is in judicial custody. But his son Suvorup said: “This is fabricated as he has been behind bars for the past 15 months”

IQBAL AHMAD Trinamul MLA and CMC deputy mayor

Seen: Receiving wads of currency notes

Heard: Please give Subrata Mukherjee…. You have to pay him 1 lakh more

Response: This is a conspiracy by the Opposition to malign us days before the Assembly polls. The people will give
a fitting reply with a mandate in favour of us

FIRHAD HAKIM urban development and municipal affairs minister

Seen: Not seen taking money

Heard: If we get involved in small stuff, what will the kids do? Go downstairs and give the money. We’ll do the counting later

Response: This is a smear campaign and a political gimmick. I won’t say anything. My party will reply to this

KARAN SHARMA AND SUJOY KRISHNA

Karan is a Trinamul youth leader close to Mamata’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee; Sujoy is a little-known Trinamul youth leader

Seen: Not seen taking money

Heard: After sitting with you, I shall organise the meeting with ministers and from there you’ll get a positive
response, Sujoy says

Response: Could not be contacted

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Chhagan Bhujbal arrested for ‘payoffs, laundering’ in Maharashtra Sadan scam

Written by Rashmi Rajput | Mumbai | Updated: March 15, 2016 7:19 am

Chhagan Bhujbal

NCP leader and former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal was arrested Monday evening after being questioned for over nine hours by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an alleged money laundering case which the agency claims caused a loss of Rs 870 crore to the exchequer.

The ED is probing alleged kickbacks received by Bhujbal and his kin for favouring contractors in construction of the Maharashtra Sadan in New Delhi and the Kalina Central Library, works which were awarded when he was state PWD minister — he held the portfolio from November 2004 to September 2014. He started his political career with the Shiv Sena, joined the Congress and later the NCP of Sharad Pawar.

Read | Maharashtra sadan scam: Bhujbal arrest a major setback for NCP

The ED has alleged that the Bhujbals received cash in lieu of projects awarded to contractors and “channeled such illegal cash into various companies and integrated it into business activities” of companies they controlled.

Read | Bhujbal held, Ajit Pawar and Sunil Tatkare may face arrest soon: Kirit Somaiya

Following Bhujbal’s arrest, an ED officer said: “When we quizzed him on the contracts awarded by him during his tenure as PWD minister, he claimed that the decision was taken by the Cabinet sub-committee. He was non-committal on the sources of cash. Since his answers were unsatisfactory, we arrested him.”

Bhujbal will be produced before the special PMLA court Tuesday. Since he is a sitting MLA, information of his arrest will be communicated to the Speaker of the Maharashtra Assembly.

Summoned to the ED office at Ballard Pier with statements of his bank accounts and documents of his properties, Bhujbal reached there 11.30 am Monday with his lawyer and a few NCP leaders. Entering the office, Chhagan bhujbal

Bhujbal told reporters: “I am a victim of political vendetta but I will cooperate with the investigation.”

Anticipating protests by NCP workers, police issued prohibitory orders in and around the ED premises and deployed over 100 policemen. NCP workers, who turned up there and raised slogans, were taken into preventive custody and let off later. Later, after his arrest, water cannons were also brought in.

ED sources said Bhujbal was questioned on large sums of cash, allegedly laundered with the help of hawala operators into shell companies floated by his nephew Sameer — he has already been arrested — and son Pankaj. The ED has seized passports of Bhujbal and Pankaj.

“Our probe has zeroed in on over a dozen companies based out of Kolkata that bought shares in companies fully owned and controlled by the Bhujbals on unrealistic premiums which were later channeled through various companies to start projects like the Hex World in Kharghar. We suspect that these Kolkata-based companies were floated to reroute the bribes taken while awarding the contracts. The hawala operators took the cash and routed the bribes by floating these companies and buying the shares at high premiums,” a senior ED officer said.

“Both Sameer and Pankaj failed to explain the source of funds that were channeled into their companies. While Chhagan Bhujbal was not a director in any of the front companies floated by his kin, the charges are that these are funds that he allegedly received as kickbacks for favouring contractors for construction of the Maharashtra Sadan and the Kalina Central Library. The focus of our probe is to find out if these companies paid bribes to the junior Bhujbals by purchasing shares of their companies through shell companies in lieu of contracts that the senior Bhujbal helped them bag,” the ED officer said.

Sources claimed that cash was carried in an ambulance to avoid suspicion.

On February 1, the agency arrested Sameer Bhujbal. Seeking his remand, the ED said, “Chartered accountant Sunil Naik deposed that shares of Parvesh Construction Pvt Ltd and Armstrong Energy Pvt Ltd, fully owned and controlled by Bhujbals, were sold to dubious entities against cash at unrealistic high premiums of Rs 990 per share and funds to the tune of Rs 75 crore and Rs 50 crore respectively were channeled by this method.”

“Suresh Jajodia, market operator, stated he had arranged funds in the bank account of Parvesh Construction and Armstrong Energy against cash that he used to receive from MET (Mumbai Educational Trust) office of Bhujbals in Bandra and used to transfer it to his Kolkata-based contacts by using services of certain hawala operators,” the ED stated “Praveen Jain, controller of various companies, admitted he had accepted cash from Naik and in turn arranged cheque payments in the bank accounts of Armstrong Energy in lieu of cash to the tune of Rs 10.50 crore,” the ED stated, adding that his employee Prabhakar Sogam visited MET office on his instruction numerous times and collected cash.

According to the ED, Kolkata-based financial consultant Sanjiv Jain received approximately Rs 8 crore in cash from Naik for arranging cheque payments in the accounts of Parvesh Construction and Armstrong Energy in the name of share purchases at high premiums.

ED officers have claimed that chartered accountant Chandra Shekhar helped the Bhujbals form two companies — Minutex Processors Pvt Ltd and Mangal Sago Pvt Ltd and arranged payments to the tune of Rs 10.24 crore and Rs 15.78 crore in the bank account of Parvesh Construction in the name of share purchases at high premium.

On June 17, 2015, the ED filed two FIRs under the PMLA against Bhujbal, Pankaj and Sameer for alleged money laundering. This was after the ACB searched 26 properties of Chhagan Bhujbal as part of its investigation into alleged irregularities in the award of a contract of over Rs 100 crore for three projects in 2006 when Bhujbal was Deputy Chief Minister and PWD minister.

The contract awarded to M/s Chamankar Developers included construction of Maharashtra Sadan in Delhi, a new Regional Transport Office (RTO) building in Andheri, and a state guest house at High Mount in Malabar Hill, Mumbai.

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LS ethics panel’s notice to Rahul over UK citizenship http://www.dailypioneer.com/todays-newspaper/ls-ethics-panels-notice-to-rahul-over-uk-citizenship.html … via @TheDailyPioneer

LS ETHICS PANEL’S NOTICE TO RAHUL OVER UK CITIZENSHIP

Tuesday, 15 March 2016 | PNS | New Delhi
Lok Sabha’s Ethics Committee headed by BJP veteran leader LK Advani has issued notice to Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi to explain how he declared himself as British citizen while floating a private limited company in London in 2004. While the Congress blamed the Modi Government and the BJP for “political vendetta”, Rahul said, “We will deal with it.”
“The Ethics Committee has issued a show-cause notice asking him (Rahul Gandhi) how he showed his citizenship as British when he was in London and became a Director...,” BJP leader Arjun Ram Meghwal, one of the committee members, told reporters outside Parliament on Monday.
In a statement, AICC chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said that since his birth Rahul Gandhi has been an Indian citizen and never applied for or acquired the citizenship of any other country.
“Gandhi will reply to the notice of complaint of ethical misconduct in conformity with Parliamentary procedure and we shall not comment upon it in the media,” he said, adding, “As for the repeated questions being raised outside Parliament about Rahul Gandhi’s citizenship, particularly by BJP leaders, these are nothing more than the continuing political vendetta of the BJP and its leadership against the Congress leadership. The facts in this matter can easily be verified by the Government of the day. This campaign of the BJP leadership is malafide and defamatory.”
The controversy started in the first week of November after BJP leader Subramanian Swamy released documents of a company called Backops Ltd floated in London by Rahul. In the company documents, Rahul declared himself as a British citizen with a London address -- 2 Frognalway. Rahul was Director and Company Secretary of this company. In the incorporation document in 2004, Rahul declared himself as Indian citizen while in the company documents in 2005 and 2006, he declared his citizenship as British.
Moreover from the same London address, Rahul operated an account in Barclays Bank in the name of Raul Vinci. The bank account started in 1994 was wound up in December 2014.
In the first week of January, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan had forwarded to the Ethics Committee the complaint of BJP MP Maheish Girri requesting for “appropriate enquiry” into party colleague Swamy’s allegations that Gandhi had declared himself a British citizen to float a firm in that country.
Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury alleged that the Government was trying to divert attention from the “various crises” being faced by the country. Party leader Digvijaya Singh said that the complaint did not deserve attention. “A person who is born in India and whose grandmother and father have been Prime Ministers of India, can that person be a citizen of some other country? The Ethics Committee should dismiss it,” he said.
However, Swamy said, “These documents are true because they were filed by Rahul Gandhi in his capacity as company secretary and he is certainly responsible for it and his signature is available in the records.”
“The committee had felt that there was a prima facie case to issue a notice, so, they issued a show-cause notice asking him to explain the truth of the documents that have been submitted. Under Article 9 of the Constitution and Article 18 in both ways, no Indian citizen can have any other country’s citizenship. Some countries allow dual citizenship but we don’t, so he loses his citizenship and once he loses the citizenship ultimately he loses the membership from Parliament,” he added.

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CBI moves to seek info on Mallya's properties abroad

TNN | Mar 15, 2016, 03.09 AM IST

CBI moves to seek info on Mallya's properties abroad

New Delhi: CBI has decided to get Letters Rogatory (LR) issued to seek details of Vijay Mallya's properties and investments abroad as part of its investigation into allegations that he diverted funds raised from government banks for Kingfisher Airlines.

Sources said the LRs - legal request for assistance - are being prepared and CBI may move courts shortly to get them served through the foreign ministry.

Mallya has properties in several countries , including US, UK, France, Hong Kong and UK. The LRs are needed for Indian agencies to gather information, which will be admissible as evidence in court.

Considering that LRs will also be crucial for any effort to get a Red Corner Notice issued by Interpol, CBI's plans mark a toughening of the agency's posture towards Mallya.

Significantly, CBI's preparations coincide with Mallya's close associate and former chief financial officer Ravi Nedungadi opening up to inform the Enforcement Directorate about two expensive properties - one in San Fransisco and another in France - with links to Mallya. Nedungadi who, ED sources claimed, had dodged direct replies to questions from ED officers in Mumbai, said the two properties have regularly been used by Mallya, though he was not sure about who their legal owner was.

TOI had on Saturday reported that in his affidavit filed with the Election Commission in 2010, Mallya had claimed that he was a man of rather modest means. Mallya laid claim to a measly Rs 9,500 in cash and no property either as land or home. He also had no liabilities as per the affidavit.

As reported by TOI on Sunday, CBI is also looking into whether "political pressure" was applied on banks to get them to lend to Kingfisher Airlines when it was not doing well. CBI chief Anil Sinha on Monday refrained from discussing the political dimension, but stresssed that all those who facilitated help to Mallya from banks would to be probed. "Undue accommodation is within the focus of investigation and whosoever might have facilitated undue accommodation would also be within the ambit of our probe," said Sinha.

Sinha asserted that it was CBI which set the ball rolling against Mallya by registering a case into the loan that he had secured from the Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI).

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JNU row: Kanhaiya, 4 others should be rusticated, recommends top university panel

TNN | Mar 14, 2016, 10.37 PM IST

NEW DELHI: The high level inquiry committee set up by Jawaharlal Nehru University has recommended the expulsion of five students, including JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar who is out on interim bail, and PhD scholars Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, currently in judicial custody on sedition charges, top university sources said.

The committee was set up to probe the February 9 event on campus where anti-national slogans were allegedly raised.

JNU row: Kanhaiya, 4 others should be rusticated, recommends top university panel

Want freedom in India, not from India: Kanhaiya

Four other students are likely to face suspension and a few others are to be let off with a fine. In all, 21 students are likely to get show-cause notice as to why action should not be initiated against them.

JNU vice-chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar has appraised the dean's committee of the summary of the report and recommendations, which found these students guilty of violating the university's rules and norms.

Fresh poster issues death threat to Kanhaiya Kumar

According to sources present at the deans' committee meeting, five students are to face rustication, "which means they will be asked to leave the campus and discontinue their studies. Four other students are to face suspension and could also be asked to leave their hostel."

The final decision on the quantum of punishment will be taken by the VC and chief proctor A Dimri after a scrutiny of the suggestions as well as the replies to the show-cause notices, the sources added.

Afzal Guru row: ABVP files complaint against JNU associate dean

The high level enquiry committee submitted its report on March 11, after two extensions (February 26 and March 3). Following the February 9 protest event against Afzal Guru's hanging, the vice-chancellor had set up a proctorial enquiry on February 10 and then replaced it with the high level committee on February 11.

In its interim report, the committee recommended debarring of eight students from all academic activities but allowed them to stay in hostels as guests.

On Monday, the university said the committee had unanimously found some students to have violated the university's rules. "There are standard provisions in the university rules to take action in such cases. The high level inquiry committee recommendations are based on the rules of discipline and proper conduct of JNU," the varsity said.

The VC, after appraising the dean's committee of the committee's recommendations, said, "The office of the chief proctor would take further action by issuing show cause notices to the students who have been found violating the rules and norms of the university."

Sedition case against JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar in Patna court

The university is likely to send out the show-cause late on Monday night or Tuesday morning, along with a summary of the charges against the students.

Questions have been raised on the committee right from the beginning of the inquiry, with left-wing student's groups and teachers slamming the university administration for debarring the students from academic activities even before the report came out.

JNUSU vice president Shehla Rashid Shora on March 11, the day when the report was submitted, said they would not accept "whatever the report says as the committee has not worked in a transparent manner".

JNU's Kanhaiya Kumar accused of misbehaving with a female student

The students under scanner also decided not to depose before the committee and therefore this report has been prepared without hearing the defence of the 21 students. According to sources in the JNU administration, the students will be given three days to reply to the show cause notice as to why no action should be taken against them.

JNUSU joint secretary Saurabh Sharma, who belongs to the BJP-aligned ABVP, said the university should release the report in public domain and added that no leniency should be showed on the guilty.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/JNU-row-Kanhaiya-4-others-should-be-rusticated-recommends-top-university-panel/articleshowprint/51399799.cms

Updated: March 15, 2016 09:19 IST

JNU committee recommends rustication of two students

KRITIKA SHARMA SEBASTIAN

COMMENT · PRINT · T T

JNU Student Union president Kanhaiya Kumar.

A decision on the recommendation by the panel will be taken by Vice Chancellor and Chief Proctor after a thorough scrutiny of the suggestions.

A high-level inquiry committee formed to look into the February 9 incident on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus has recommended rustication of Anirban Bhattacharya and Umar Khalid for a certain period for “violating university rules,” sources in the university administration have said.

The five-member committee has also recommended imposing a fine on some university students, including JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who were present at the event. However, a final call will be taken by the office of the Chief Proctor. A meeting in this connection has been scheduled for Friday.

Mr. Kumar, Mr. Khalid and Mr. Bhattacharya were arrested by the Delhi police on sedition charges for allegedly raising slogans in support of the 2002 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. While Mr. Kumar was released on bail earlier this month, Mr. Bhattacharya and Mr. Khalid are still in judicial custody.

According to sources, 21 students have been served show cause notices for “violating the rules and regulations of university” at the February 9 event. The students, however, have refused to accept the notice. “How can the inquiry committee come to a conclusion when our side was not heard,” asked Anant, one of the students who was issued the notice.

The students have to submit their replies to the Chief Proctor’s office by March 16, failing which the office will presume that they have nothing to say in their defence. While the inquiry committee had submitted the report on March 11, it came up for discussion at a meeting of the university’s top brass chaired by Vice-Chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar on Monday.

An official statement from the university reads: “The high level inquiry committee constituted by the VC to enquire into the incident has submitted a unanimous report... As per the report, some students have been found to have violated the university rules and norms. There are standard provisions in the university to take action in such cases. The high level inquiry is based on the rules of discipline and proper conduct of JNU.”

“The VC has apprised the Dean’s Committee of the summary of the inquiry committee recommendations. The office of the Chief Proctor would take further action by issuing show-cause notices to the concerned students who have been found violating the rules and norms of the university,” the statement added. The university had on March 11 revoked the suspension of eight students, including Kanhaiya Kumar, in connection with the controversial event on its campus to protest the hanging of Afzal Guru. This was after the university’s high-level panel probing the issue submitted its report.

The varsity had clarified then that this did not signify a “clean chit” to the students and that the final decision in this regard would be taken after examination of the report by the Vice-Chancellor.

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The Sunday Guardian stands by its interview of Vijay Mallya

By OUR CORRESPONDENT | | 15 March, 2016

The Sunday Guardian stands by its interview of Mr Vijay Mallya. This was given to the newspaper on 12 March 2016. Mr Mallya personally responded to our email questionnaire from his encrypted email id: vjmallya@protonmail.com. This id was confirmed to us by his legal counsel's office on 8 March. To a questionnaire sent to Mr Mallya on 10 March, he replied via email on 12 March. For reasons that are not clear, Mr Mallya has sought to distance himself from the interview. We, however, stand by our report. The email trail is attached.

Click: The email trail of The Sunday Guardian interview with Vijay Mallya

The time is not right for my return: Vijay Mallya

By KANISHKA SINGH | NEW DELHI | 12 March, 2016

Business tycoon Vijay Mallya rubbished charges that he was on the run to evade law enforcement agencies, in an email interview with The Sunday Guardian. He claimed that the banks gave him loans after evaluating all aspects. However, he also said that he was not in a hurry to return to India.

Q: What was the purpose of your leaving the country on 2 March? Was it related to your failure to pay back loans or a casual visit? Why haven’t you spoken out till now?

A: I left from Delhi for a personal visit with a friend. It wasn’t a business visit. Lots of people have written that I was carrying seven luggage bags. If I did or not, that’s another story. But, for two people, I don’t think that’s too much. I pack heavy. That’s how I travel. There was a lookout notice issued against me last year. But I didn’t “escape”. Why am I being portrayed as a criminal now? Loan defaults are a business matter. When the banks give out loans, they know the risk involved. They decide, we don’t. Our own business was flourishing, but plummeted suddenly. Don’t make me the villain. I have the best intentions. I’m quiet because I fear my words will be twisted like of others.

Q. Ironically, the time you left was just before the banks moved court? Did someone tip you off?

A: That is a matter of interpretation. It’s not the first time I’ve flown out from the country. I’ve not done anything wrong. I don’t need anyone to tip me off about anything. Most of the big media houses are running a whole lot of lies about me. Speculations rule the papers. TV channels claim to have information about me from their sources. It’s a big agenda that some people are pushing against me. I am being victimised. And if people are doubting the integrity of bank employees, then why point the finger at me? I’ve always taken things on my chin. I’ve lived grand and helped people do the same. I’ve never hidden any aspect about my life. I’m one of the most open people. I’m forced to go into hiding and that makes me sick.

Q: Do you plan to step back into India? If yes, when?

A: I am an Indian to the core. Of course I want to return. But I’m not sure I’ll get a fair chance to present my side. I’ve already been branded as criminal. I do not feel the time is right. I feel passions are high. People need to think rationally. They need to understand that business, whether large or small, has risks involved. I’ve seen the highest to the lowest points in this matter. But I hope that I return one day. India has given me everything. It made me Vijay Mallya.

Q: Where are you living currently? People claim to have spotted you near your property in Hertfordshire, near London.

A: I do not think it is wise for me to reveal my whereabouts. I’m no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt. For now, I want to feel safe.

There are 21 Comments

What a joke

Submitted by bigben (not verified) on Sun, 2016-03-13 14:37

It is clear he has fled the country. Just a few days ago he said he has full faith in the Indian Judicial System. Now he says he is afraid he won't get a fair chance to explain his side of things? I was with him until he made this statement. Now it feels that this was a pre-planned escape.

Faith in Judicial System

Submitted by Narendra (not verified) on Sun, 2016-03-13 19:51

Sahara shri's case is an example. Though I believe that such a person should be behind Bar but the question is under which law?

That's right.. Agree with you

Submitted by Neeraj (not verified) on Mon, 2016-03-14 23:44

That's right.. Agree with you completely.. With his statements he clearly has spelled out the beans.. What a big loser Mallya is

Mallya

Submitted by Take off (not verified) on Sun, 2016-03-13 16:01

Barring settling pending dues of suppliers and his employees, Mr Vijay Mallya should not repay one rupee to lenders. We all know the extent to which Indian lenders (banks) go to acquire collateral before a loan is sanctioned. Despite the long term poor financial state of AirIndia banks advanced money to the sector including KFA. The unexpected business failure would result in loans going sour, it's business.

Vijaya Mallya

Submitted by D.Mohan (not verified) on Sun, 2016-03-13 16:32

In the interview he comes out as a bundle of contradiction. Earlier he had said he was not a absconder and believed in Indian Judiciary and now he says "..But I’m not sure I’ll get a fair chance to present my side" .Why this change ? Because of the belated media exposure after he left the country evidently. He claims "Most of the big media houses are running a whole lot of lies about me. Speculations rule the papers. ............It’s a big agenda that some people are pushing against me. I am being victimized”.Not surprisingly now he has started playing victim card and crying of media trial ! Fact of the matter is Indian media especially the TV channels have been scrupulously blacking out his bank NPAs story for over 3-4 yrs now in spite of bank employees union regularly issuing related bulletins with figures. So media if anything is to be blamed for waking up as late as just last week and indirectly helped him evade law using his clout as an MP. If anything the media should be ashamed of not bothering to project KFA employees' woes of unpaid salaries, tax problems etc. in time in 2012-13 itself? Next, he says “….And if people are doubting the integrity of bank employees, then why point the finger at me?” Why not Mr Mallya because if you get a bank loan you don’t deserve to for various reasons then you too as much as the bank are to be held responsible and law has to take its course. On the top of it you do not repay back and flee the country and you blame the media when they report it as it is their duty. Your next Gem, “ …People need to think rationally. ...understand that business,………. has risks involved.” Risk ,we understand and FM& RBI Gov. have also clarified and made distinction between business ‘risk’ and “fraud, the fund diversions…..” etc. and have emphasized they would be treated separately as they should. Investigating agencies like CBI,ED ,SFIO … and other agencies are already investigating KFA bad loans and ED has already summoned you on 18th Mar too ! The very fact that now you have changed your stand on returning to India clearly points to your ‘guilt’ and anticipation on consequences! So in a way you are indeed an absconder unless you present yourself to the law of the land.

Vijay Mallya

Submitted by Sreenivasan (not verified) on Sun, 2016-03-13 16:39

It is really sad the way things are turning out for Vijay....I don't think he deserved it....he has never been a hypocrite. Be that as it may, I feel he is doing total disservice to himself by sounding like a fugitive who is escaping from himself and from realities....He has to take the bull by its horns and face reality squarely....It may be very difficult at the beginning, but good for him in the long run....

Mallya

Submitted by neurosid (not verified) on Sun, 2016-03-13 18:31

Smart guy! Hats off to him! Nail him if you can, if not eat crow!

Mallya

Submitted by Pakizha (not verified) on Sun, 2016-03-13 18:42

Hamare papa kehte the, chor to sub hain, sirf degree ka farak hain. Bus beta chori karo par pakade na jaon

VM

Submitted by VIjay G (not verified) on Sun, 2016-03-13 22:44

It takes years to earn your respect in your business, society and country. Very easy to damage and VM has lost his credability. The longer he leaves it to resolve, tougher it becomes. It will always stays with VM for rest of his life.

Injustice for Kingfisher airlines workers

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 2016-03-13 23:19

I agree business involves loss & gain, but what I can't digest is that he should have paid salaries for his employees and closed the airlines. With the wealth he posses the salary money wasn't a big chunk of his personal wealth, At least please pay now..justice will be served for those who feel the pain for their losses

Mallya & the Business

Submitted by James (not verified) on Mon, 2016-03-14 00:29

Sorry to read this but its easy to poke a dead snake. a) Mallya is not Sahara Shri. Mallya ran and operated legitimate businesses. b) Like any business - his one ran in to losses which turned in to unpaid dues to the banks, businesses and employees. c) Lack of Bankruptcy law in India has highlighted this event. If there was any brankruptcy law in India - he could have used it but there is none. d) Fair enough that he needs privacy. e) News channel is portraying him as if he has pocketed those monies himself. But thats untrue. The monies went into a business that failed and even he was pushed to sell his assets and liquor businesses. f) Banks give loans then its for them to retirve it. Its not govt's duty to do banks' job. Govt didnt sanction any loans to him, banks did.

Kingfisher

Submitted by bohemianrascal (not verified) on Mon, 2016-03-14 00:25

It is sad and unfair that Mr. Mallya has been targeted and hounded by the media which is evidently biased. Business loans that go unpaid due to slackness or death of a business is nothing new. A private limited company and its directors are responsible to the extent of their shares. Malaya has given security which the banks may go after for recovery of their money. Does availing of a loan prohibit you from travelling until the same is paid ?? is there a judgment against him ?? and if so, has he despite the same not satisfied such a decree ?? Businessmen travel all the time, an absconder is someone who is not represented by anybody and nobody knows where he is. A person seeking anticipatory bail cannot by any stretch of imagination be called an absconder. He is before the court, duly represented by counsel and seeking relief that the law mandates. Shame on crony capitalism. Some of the big wigs want to please the voters and hence have started this malicious campaign against him. Of course, its a different matter if TDS has been deducted and not paid to the department, even so, there is an obligation in law to hear his defence and if the same does not meet standards that are already set, then I am sure he will suffer whatever verdict that is imposed on him. Until then, let the king of good times, be left alone.

Kingfisher

Submitted by bohemianrascal (not verified) on Mon, 2016-03-14 00:26

Time Matters

Submitted by Santu356521 (not verified) on Mon, 2016-03-14 08:30

I hope he is not a criminal in times, but the views of people might change his way. Because this is not 1st time he was moved out from the country which he usually go. Secondly why people didn't question when he go previously but now? Next comes, the banks... does the bank really turned out on his loans? If yes; why only now? Just make the things in a right way so that he might turn back with a good approach.

Bad loans

Submitted by Sunny (not verified) on Mon, 2016-03-14 09:20

I think all banks should post top ten defaulters and what actions they have taken so far...by target Malaya....I agree he should have paid employee dues and fired them all. Most employees would have gained employment if not their incompetence is a reason for this suitability.

Its sad to hear that its not

Submitted by AB (not verified) on Mon, 2016-03-14 09:38

Its sad to hear that its not the right time to return, may be he knows law better! if we potray our business men as criminals, what creditability we show to the world? and if Mallaya and others like Mallaya are villians/criminals in india, then where does the indian politics/politicians stand? business make profits and business makes losses, that doesnt mean someone is a criminal, if there is any personal asset that bank can attach, they will do so no matter he is in india or not, moreover a business loss to be blown out of proportion on news channels, i laugh out loud as if they know the KFA statements more than banks, who offered the loans. All i think is, if he is a defaulter, give him time and space to still work or do business, if he stays in market, u still might have a chance to recover, because no businessman is on a satyagrah to sit in jail and prove how nice a human he is, he can be smarter than banks in a case like this and hide wealth in family and stay away from law till his last breath, and then its easy to keep blaming but difficult to recover any money. Sad that our liquor baron who is also an MP feels its not the right time to return, anyways stay happy, stay wealthy wherever you are!

Atonement is never a choice

Submitted by Ravi Iyer (not verified) on Mon, 2016-03-14 10:24

People, when in power, feel that power is infinite and permanent. They don't realize that their acts pinch common people and earn their curses. Battery of lawyers and loop holes in laws may earn one a temporary reprieve, but atonement can never be put away. Such charlatans are re-born and serve a life-time on streets in abject poverty & misery. That is the power of curses of hurting the poor & the weak ! There have been many powerful dictators & despots who have bitten the dust, hence out-of-favour businessmen are easy catch if a political will is developed. Time is never too late for atonement while one is still fit & active. Repay all the pennies and add a penny more towards charity. Then one can leave a satisfying life; after all how many square meals do you require for a day ? The evenings of life can be very very painful if the curses keep mounting.

Vijay Mallya

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2016-03-14 16:39

He is saying that Bank's should know the risk profile. The thing he ran a bad business model. He took over Deccan Airways and merged it in to his Kingfisher airlines. He cut rates when he should have not. His cash cows were USL and United Breweries he bought Whyte and Mackay for the Scotch inventory it held. He stretched himself everywhere. His father built the business and Vijay Mallya took it a new level. It was bad business model he was following and he had to pay the price

You are not fooling anyone

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2016-03-14 17:20

Why Mr Mallya persists with this ridiculous facade is beyond me. Really? You left the country at the exact time when a number of banks want you arrested? That is one hell of a coincidence. Whatever the truth may be, he should return and face his fate like a MAN (or woman of course). An "international businessman" would have nothing to fear, if there were no wrongdoing.

It's nothing new

Submitted by Ace (not verified) on Mon, 2016-03-14 23:08

This matter has been in limelight because Vm is evolved and lot of employees have been left unpaid. But such things happen in India courts everyday. Vm is absolutely right that it's business up and down are part of game profit n loss are always siblings. In present case foolish were bankers who just looking into life style of Vm advanced heavy amounts without sufficient security. And if the bankers now expect that Vm will pay u bk bankers ur fool. Leave Vm such bankers should be punished who are so harsh and smart in dealing with small borrowers and so fool in advancing to ppl like Vm. Not only one bank dozen of their management ppl were either bribed or Vm had put chilies in their eyes. Catch such bank officials first else such unsecured defaults will be repeated in future too at least save that.

http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/3718-time-not-right-my-return-vijay-mallya

Liquor baron Vijay Mallya has denied that he gave an interview to an English weekly newspaper in which he was quoted as saying that the time is not right for him to return to India. But the newspaper stood by its story.

In the interview, Mallya was quoted as saying, “I am an Indian to the core. Of course I want to return. But I’m not sure I’ll get a fair chance to present my side. But I hope that I return one day. India has given me everything. It made me Vijay Mallya.”

The day after the newspaper's reported interview, Mallya denied making a statement to it. He tweeted:

Vijay Mallya

✔‎@TheVijayMallya

Shocked to see media statements that I gave an interview to Sunday Guardian without verification.I have not given any statement to anyone.

8:55 PM - 14 Mar 2016

Vijay Mallya 's denial was strongly refuted by the English weekly newspaper. “We are posting the full interveiw with Mallya on our website in the next half an hour, then we will examine his denial,” Pankaj Vohra, the editor of Sunday Guardian, told the New Indian Express.

http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/Newspaper-Stands-by-Interview-With-Mallya/2016/03/14/article3327135.ece

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JNU Genealogy ... TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2016

JNU Genealogy

As I look back at the last one month I am happy that the JNU incidents came out in public. These gained more attention with the arrest of a few students and perhaps one faculty member. A report by a High-level panel appointed by the VC of JNU found 21 students guilty of breaking norms and has recommended action against them. Sometimes, it is worth waiting a while for the entire series of events to unfold. Because unlike lies which can be peddled easily, truth takes a little more time to come out. After all, the truth about the Ishrat Jehan conspiracy to screw Amit Shah, Narenda Modi and others took years to come out. Didn’t it? Our silly media in search of instant-orgasms against ModiSarkar went hammer and tongs defendingKanhaiya Kumar and some others. Some even went to the extent of glorifying them. Like this one here:

That is Nayantara Sahgal whose mindless contempt for Modi goes beyond any reason. She couldn’t wait to learn a bit more of that little upstart before pronouncing him a match for Modi. She wasn’t alone, there were many media-morons who pronounced Kanhaiya the new-found weapon that will unseat Modi. When they cannot find the oasis in the desert “They drink the sand not it because it quenches their thirst but because they cannot tell the difference”. It won’t. It just makes them even more blind to realities. There’s enough written about the anti-India slogans, glorification of terrorists like Afzal Guru or Maqbool Butt and I need not repeat them here. Everything went boringly quiet after this news about Kanhaiya broke:

There have been many student agitations in India – some good, some bad. There has been the Navnirman agitation of 1974 in Gujarat over corruption and price-rise, there was that anti-Reservation agitation against the Mandal Committee. But it’s only in the Commie dens like the JNU types that we frequently see anti-India agitations and slogans. And this involves both the students and teachers at JNU. This sample called Nivedita Menon has some abominable things to say about India and Hindus. These videos are from two Youtube links – Here and here. The Zeenews video has been editited to keep it short. Watch (3.01 minutes):

It is hard to imagine someone can nurture so much hatred and contempt for her country and Hindus. Even the worst criticism of your country is normally accepted as a point of view but this goes way beyond that and is not even based on an iota of truth to the statements she peddles. Post 9/11 the pet term of terrorist-apologists was the “Root-Cause” theory. They quoted all bogus reasons for Islamic terrorism across the world and that predictably fell-flat. But we have to understand the “Genealogy” of JNU and many of its alumni to understand what makes them indulge in anti-national slogans and glorification of terrorists.

Genealogy is generally understood as: “A record or table of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; a family tree”. In this case we will try and understand the descent of JNU into a hot-bed of Commie activists and how they have come to adopt such a vicious ideology or political system. JNU is eminently named after the person who was fascinated by the Commies; especially the Soviet October Revolution. In 1936 JL Nehru gave a speech at the Indian Congress noting how their remarkable revolution is the future of world civilisation:

The above part of Nehru’s speech deserves repeated reminder to people so that they know how our establishment is infested with Commies. Through his love for this great hope JLN glossed over the vicious violence unleashed by the Russian Commies. Though the USSR too called itself “Socialist” (like JLN does in his speech) it is never long before this Socialism transmogrifies into raw Communism – violent, repressive and suspension of all freedoms. A casual look at major Commie regimes in the world will tell you that these regimes have killed more people in peace-time than all the terrorists in the world. At some places they still continue to do so. Thus, under Nehru an entire establishment in Delhi and most states (because Congress was thedominant political power for many years) became entrenched which believed in this ideology in a not-so-subtle manner even as they constantly talked democracy. They infested our education sector, altered our history and trashed Gods and Goddesses of Hinduism. The JNU, founded a few years after Nehru died, also became the hot-bed of Commie politics but more virulent that Nehru himself never was.

Let’s take a look at the pure Commie parties – CPI, CPM, CPI (ML) etc. The CPM broke with the CPI early 1960s. All these parties have waged an underground violent battle against the State for a long time. The CPM strove to become a mainstream party but its history too is generously loaded with violence. The term “Naxals” comes from the village of Naxalbari in Bengal from a violent revolution which involved members of many Commie groups. Although it started as a fight for land it slowly morphed into a violent struggle for power. During the CPM rule in Bengal from 1977 to 2011 there have been around 55000 murders most of which have never been investigated, never reported by media and never mentioned in any Assembly or Parliament. All you have to do read a part of the mission of CPI (ML) to understand their true ideology and the political system they want in a Democracy:

“The Revolutionary Course

To accomplish people’s democratic revolution in a vast and complex country like India, a communist party has to be especially skilful in mastering and combining various forms of struggle and every available avenue of work. The Party therefore strives to develop a comprehensive revolutionary practice through an organic combination of illegal and legal, secret and open and extra-parliamentary and parliamentary forms of struggle and organisation”.

In short, they wanted to wage a war in different forms against elected govts of this country. And the current day Commies wax eloquently about democracy as if they actually believe in it. On February 27 when the JNU filth was being discussed in Parliament Arun Jaitely quoted Dr. Ambedkar on why the Commies were so vehemently against our Constitution (the Constitution they quote very often now). Here’s an edited abstract:

“Let us just see what Dr. Ambedkar has to say… The condemnation of the Constitution largely comes from two quarters - the Communist Party and the Socialist Party. Why do they condemn the Constitution? Is it because it is really a bad Constitution? I venture to say, 'no'. The Communist Party wants a Constitution based upon the principle of Dictatorship of the Proletariat. They condemn the Constitution because it is based upon Parliamentary democracy. The Socialists want two things. The first thing that they want is that if they come to power, the Constitution must give them the freedom to nationalize or socialize the private property without payment of compensation. The second thing that they want is that the Fundamental Rights mentioned in the Constitution -- and this is important -- must be absolute and without any limitations so that if their party fails to come to power, they would have the unfettered freedom not merely to criticize but also to overthrow the State. These are their main grounds on which the Constitution is being condemned."

Ambedkar understood the Commies and their real intentions long before anyone else. During the Congress years almost every major industry was nationalised. Indian govt organisations were manufacturing everything from bread to scooters. Nehru had little trust in the immense entrepreneurship skills of a vast number of Indians. Commie policies and Commie parties have produced nothing worthwhile. Where ever they ruled they have only ruined the economies. Economic reforms were forced on India in 1991 under PV Narasimha Rao when India was almost bankrupt. That’s history. This is largely true of JNU too - It has produced almost nothing and, for once, I tend to agree with Justice Katju:

And wherever the Commies have ruled, the state has experienced unending violence and murders. There was the CPM guy in Kerala who openly claimed political murder was an official policy of the party. But more than words cartoonists have a better way of expressing it – showing up the process of progress of the Communist – Take Left… then an Extreme Left.. and finally an aggressive Left:

Now that we understand the Genealogy of JNU a little better, their progress to “Aggressive Left” turning into anti-National slogans, calling India an “Illegal occupier” of Kashmir and so on. In the end, it is good for India that the vicious ruckus at JNU gained such public and media attention. This was going on for years at the university but more people recognise the filth some of its alumni consistently unleash – That knowledge about such people is good education for those who love this country.

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UnknownMarch 15, 2016 7:23 AM
Another sharp article from you !! Made my day !!

JNU can claim of having produced many officers in Civil Services.. Country does not need a JNU to produce civil service officers.. There are many private coaching centers across the country - without any Govt subsidy - producing 100s of Civl Services officers - year after year..

JNU has become a dharamshala for commies, naxals and antinationals.

- Ramesh

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bhaaratiya-5March 15, 2016 7:30 AM
Dear Ravi, a fantastic summary, in a few paras you've trashed the ideology of the "Left, Extreme Left and the Aggressive Left."
On another note please read the book "Fools, Frauds & Firebrand---Thinkers of the New Left by Robert Scruton. The book actually goes to list out the history of the leftist thought and how a Leftist Gramsci actually was the 1st to propose that the Left should capture the field of Arts and Humanities to control the thought process of the new generation. This has actually happened all over the World.

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YogeshJainMarch 15, 2016 9:05 AM
And morons like Javed Akhtar, Hansal Mehta, Pratap Bhanu Mehta have infiltrated into arts, films, journalism and all the places except business - which they wish to destroy.
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Ramachandra g vMarch 15, 2016 7:43 AM
Ravinar Ji, After 60, some ppl tend to talk nonsense..N Sehgal may be more than 80..Can we forgive her for her nonsensical statement.?
You have beautifully analysed how the JNU got filth accumulated.. Brilliant as usual..Pray Him to give you more strength to bring out such haters of India, in open.

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Meenakshi PaiMarch 15, 2016 8:04 AM
Brilliant...
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Meenakshi PaiMarch 15, 2016 8:04 AM
Brilliant...
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kannaMarch 15, 2016 8:42 AM
Must read analysis. ..
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Ramachandra ReddyMarch 15, 2016 8:44 AM
A very enlightening analysis. The worrying fact is the ever growing camaraderie between Communists and Jihadists. The phenomenon is not limited to India. Commies and Islamists are working hand in glove all across the world with an intention to turn the world into a sea of chaos.
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pradeep SMarch 15, 2016 9:21 AM
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Ravinar back in form in full strength! Superbly written.
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Desperate Left rejects Marx, goes on temple run

March 15, 2016, 12:19 am

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Desperate Left goes on temple run

TNN | Mar 15, 2016, 05.44 AM IST

Abolition of religion is the prerequisite to happiness, Karl Marx said. The critique has seemingly lost its relevance for key communist functionaries in Kerala and Bengal, where the Left is in a desperate bid to revitalize its support base.

Hardcore Marxists such as Biman Bose, Gautam Deb, Surjya Kanta Mishra and Abdus Sattar have visited Hooghly's Furfura Sharif. The 14th century shrine commands reverence among Bengal's Muslims.

Time was when the party frowned upon any such indulgence. Former Bengal minister Late Subhas Chakrabarty was made to explain his decision to worship at a Kali temple in 2006.But that was then.

Today , in 125 of Bengal's 294 constituencies, electoral success is likely to hinge on the minority vote. That explains the compulsion to pay homage at Furfura Sharif. A similar story is playing out in faraway Kerala, another state the Left is desperate to recapture. Here too, CPM has begun participating in Hindu festivals, wary of the BJP's growing influence and talk of the party poaching its cadre.

Why else would Politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan be chief guest at an event hosted by the Hindu Parliament? Vijayan explained that the organisers had promised him they'd stick to secular principles. Last year, the CPM set aside its ideological moorings completely and celebrated Shri Krishna Jayanti. CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan later said it wasn't a religious celebration "but the end of Onam".
Then again, during the Sabarimala season, a CPM-controlled palliative care unit in Kannur helped pilgrims, providing them rest and refreshment facilities.But CPM leaders don't feel such overt participation in religious events dilutes their core ideology .

"Many of these utfits call us on social issues. This does not mean endorsing their religiosity," CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury says. Adding that he was invited to Kerala's Sivagiri Mutt earlier this year, Yechury says, "After EMS Namboodiripad (Kerala's first CM), I was the first communist leader to be invited. I spoke about spiritual uplift that can be achieved by atheists also."

Bengal's Surjya Mishra, CPM state secretary , also insists these practices don't clash with party line. "I don't worship at home.Neither do I participate in religious rites. I go to Furfura Sharif every year. But that's because people they hold a fair there," Mishra says. "It's a good opportunity to connect with people. I don't participate in Durga Puja. But when my neighbours call me to partake of prasad, I don't say no."

Influential Bengal Muslim spiritual leader Quari Fazlur Rehman says he's averse to such visits. "I don't attend Iftar parties.They were never a culture in Bengal. It was an idea imported from UP and New Delhi," the cleric who leads the Eid prayers at Kolkata's Red Road says.

Read this story in Hindi

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Desperate-Left-goes-on-temple-run/articleshowprint/51403256.cms

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RS ethics committee to scrutinise Mallya's conduct. NaMo, restitute kaalaadhan.

March 15, 2016, 2:54 am

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Published: March 15, 2016 02:15 IST | Updated: March 15, 2016 02:18 IST NEW DELHI, March 15, 2016

Rajya Sabha ethics committee to scrutinise Mallya’s conduct

The Hindu

Vijay Mallya. Photo: Kamal Narang

ED worried it may not be able to attach businessman’s assets

Industrialist and Rajya Sabha member Vijay Mallya, who left India even as public sector banks moved the Supreme Court to recover dues of up to Rs. 9,000 crore from him, will now have his conduct scrutinised by the Ethics Committee of the Rajya Sabha.

Leader of the Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad, Janata Dal (United) president Sharad Yadav and Congress member Pramod Tiwari were among those who moved notice to have the matter referred to the committee.

Vice-President Hamid Ansari referred it to the panel. “We have taken cognisance. Now we will proceed as per our rules,” committee chairperson Karan Singh said as the group met on Monday itself.

Meanwhile, the Enforcement Directorate, probing money laundering charges against Mr. Mallya, is worried that attaching his assets may be a problem as the CBI’s primary charge of breach of trust (Section 409) does not come under its ambit.

Section 409 of IPCdoes not come under the offences listed in the schedule of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, which empowers the Directorate to attach proceeds of crime.

The 10-member ethics committee has a majority of Opposition MPs, including Satish Chandra Misra (BSP), Avinash Rai Khanna (BJP), Sharad Yadav (JD-U), Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M), Mukul Roy (Trinamool Congress), Neeraj Shekhar (Samajwadi Party), A. Navaneethakrishnan (AIADMK) and Devender Goud T (TDP). There is one vacancy.

Meanwhile, the CBI has registered its case under Section 409 (criminal breach of trust) read with Section 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and other provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act against unknown IDBI officials pertaining to abuse of office to extend favours allegedly to Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher Airlines.

Section 409, a stringent provision that prescribes a maximum of life sentence, does not come under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, which empowers the Directorate to attach proceeds of crime.

“The provisions will be finalised when the CBI files a charge sheet in its own case,” said an official, adding that corruption allegations would only apply to bank officials. However, legal experts feel that the Directorate could attach the assets given that the independent offence of Section 120 B and relevant provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act fall within its jurisdiction.

“These provisions were included in the PMLA schedule in June 2009. Even though the said offence was committed before that, the provisions would apply as money laundering is a continuing offence,” said an expert.

Also, in case of overseas assets, the offences invoked by Indian agencies need to be recognised as crimes in the foreign jurisdictions concerned to elicit action on requests for attachment of properties. The ED has also sought details of the investigations conducted against the airline by the Income-Tax Department and the Special Frauds Investigation Office. Incidentally, though the CBI registered the case against Mr. Mallya and others in the same matter in July 2015, it has so far not conducted searches at his official residence in New Delhi.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rajya-sabha-ethics-committee-to-scrutinise-mallyas-conduct/article8353457.ece

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March 15, 2016, 5:24 am

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New Iron Dome version can destroy tunnels

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report March 11, 2016, 9:00 PM (IDT)

Iran keeps its ballistic missiles in underground bunkers

Israel has started testing a secret new weapon for defeating the tunnel systems which the Palestinian Hamas and Hizballah are busy digging for surprise attacks against Israel. Western sources reported Friday, March 11, that the new weapon, dubbed the “Underground Iron Dome,” can detect a tunnel, then send in a moving missile to blow it up.

US intelligence sources disclosed only that new weapon is equipped with seismic sensors to detect underground vibrations and map their location before destroying them.

Western experts have been talking for years about a secret Israeli weapon capable of destroying Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility, which is buried deep inside a mountain not far from the Shiite shrine city of Qom. They suggested that this hypothetical weapon could be slipped through the Fordo facility’s vents, thread its way through the underground chambers and take down the illicit enrichment facility.

It was discussed again three years ago, when the Israeli Air Force on Aug. 23 2013 blew up the Popular Palestinian Front-General Command underground facility at Al-Naama on the South Lebanese coast, 15 km south of Beirut.

The PPF-GC leader Ahmed Jibril was then taking his orders from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps.

How this operation turned out was never revealed. But Western military sources saw it as a strong Israeli message to Tehran that its underground nuclear facilities were now vulnerable to attack. The secret JIbril command center was constructed in the 1970s by East German military engineers as one of most heavily fortified military sites in the Middle East.

As for the new weapon, the Pentagon spokesman Christopher Sherwood said that the US had allocated $40 million for completing in 2016 the establishment of “anti-tunnel capabilities to detect, map and neutralize underground tunnels that threaten the US or Israel.”

According to the spokesman, the main part of the development work (on the secret weapon) would be conducted in Israel in 2016. The US would receive prototypes and access to the test sites and hold the rights to any intellectual property.

The Israeli firms working on the anti-tunnel weapon are Elbit Systems and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, which developed the Iron Dome.

Sherwood denied claims from Israeli defense quarters that the US had earmarked $120 for developing the system, or that another $80 million would be available – half in 2017 and half in 2018.

DEBKAfile’s military sources emphasize that the timeline implicit in those estimates doesn’t necessarily represent the tempo of he Underground Iron Dome’s development.

According to past experience, unfinished Israeli weapons have more than once been rushed to the battlefield to meet an emergency war situation. The Iron Dome is one example. This has the advantage of testing innovative systems in real operational conditions, with the result that improvements and adjustments can be introduced much faster than planned.

Our sources add: Both Palestinian Hamas and the pro-Iranian Hizballah are working overtime on tunnels for sneaking terrorists and commando fighters into Israel to attack IDF posts and civilian locations. During Israel’s last counter-terror operation in the Gaza Strip, Hamas staged a deadly tunnel attack on the Israel side of the border and is planning repeats. Hizballah is training commando units for underground surprise incursions to capture parts of Galilee in northern Israel.

The Israeli government has spent more than $250 million since 2004 on efforts to thwart tunnel construction under the Gaza border.

IDF Chief of Staff Gen. Gadi Eisenkot hinted at these efforts in February. “We are doing a lot, but many of [the things we do] are hidden from the public,” he told a conference at Herzliya’s Interdisciplinary Center. “We have dozens, if not a hundred, engineering vehicles on the Gaza border.”

http://debka.com/article/25292/New-Iron-Dome-version-can-destroy-tunnels

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Archaeometallurgy reconstructs methods of making ancient crucible steel mirrored by Indus Script signifiers of hardening metals

March 15, 2016, 8:25 am

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Archaeometallurgical investigations and reports have provided a reasoned reconstruction of the methods of making carbon-alloys to harden soft metals.

A memory marker is provided by a painting in Steel Authority of India Institute at Ranchi which displays Purushottama presenting a sword to Alexander on the banks of Jhelum (Vitasta). In the backgrouns of this painting, ancient Indian smelters at work are shown:

There is evidence from Bharatiya languages for the words which denote and distinguish between 'soft' metals and 'hard' metals. The word for soft iron is: mRdu (Samskrtam) with cognates of meḍ 'iron, copper' (Munda. Slavic) mẽṛhẽt, meD 'iron' (Mu.Ho.Santali). meď 'copper' (Slovak).

Hard metals were signified by the gloss: karaDa (hieroglyph: karaDa 'cheetah, leopard'.

The process of hardening soft metal was signified by the word caṣālḥ चषाल 'smoke of godhUma wheat-chaff' and hieroglyph: caṣālḥ चषालः , 'boar's snout').

The significance of the caṣālḥ चषालः is described in Taittiriya Samhita and

Satapatha Brahmana in the context of detailed procedures for signifying

Soma Yagas, VAjapeya, in particular by installing a Yupa (pillar, post).

For VAjapeya the Yupa brick was required to be octagonal (aSTAs'ri , 'eight angles') as evidenced in the yagnakunda of Binjor on the banks of River Sarasvati near Anupgarh, close to Pakistan border (not far from Ganweriwala, Bahawalpur province, Cholistan).

Yajna Kunda. Bijnor with octagonal yupa brick. Discovery reported in April 2015 by an archaeological team from National Museum, Janpath, Delhi.

Details from the ancient texts are provided in http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2016/01/casalh-is-rigveda-citation-of-ring-atop.html?view=snapshot

caṣālḥ चषालः is a Rigveda citation of a ring atop yupa which signifies Soma Yaga -- metalwork, carburization?

Steels and carbon-alloys

"Woodgrain" pattern of a sword blade made of crucible steel, Zand or Early Qajar period: (Zand) 1750–1794 AD; (Qajar) 1794–1952 AD, Iran.

Ta. uruku (uruki-) to dissolve (intr.) with heat, melt, liquefy, be fused, become tender, melt (as the heart), be kind, glow with love, be emaciated; urukku (urukki-) to melt (tr.) with heat (as metals or congealed substances), dissolve, liquefy, fuse, soften (as feelings), reduce, emaciate (as the body), destroy; n. steel, anything melted, product of liquefaction; urukkam melting of heart, tenderness, compassion, love (as to a deity, friend, or child); urukkiṉam that which facilitates the fusion of metals (as borax). Ma. urukuka to melt, dissolve, be softened; urukkuka to melt (tr.); urukkam melting, anguish; urukku what is melted, fused metal,steel. Ko. uk steel. Ka. urku, ukku id. Koḍ. ur- (uri-) to melt (intr.); urïk- (urïki-) id. (tr.); ukkï steel. Te. ukku id. Go. (Mu.) urī-, (Ko.) uṛi- to be melted, dissolved; tr. (Mu.) urih-/urh- (Voc. 262). Konḍa (BB) rūg-to melt, dissolve. Kui ūra (ūri-) to be dissolved; pl. action ūrka (ūrki-); rūga (rūgi-) to be dissolved. Kuwi (Ṭ.) rūy- to be dissolved; (S.)rūkhnai to smelt; (Isr.) uku, (S.) ukku steel.(DEDR 661). ఉక్కు (p. 0149) [ ukku ] ukku. [Tel.] n. Steel. Strength, courage, pride, vigour, potency. అయస్సారము, బలము, శౌర్యము. Steadiness. స్థైర్యము. తెలగ ఉక్కు. A very tough sort of steel. R. v. 197. ఉక్కు తీగె ukku-tīge. n. Steel wire. ఉక్కుతునక or ఉక్కుముక్క ukku-tunaka. n. A bit of steel, a brave, sharp or active man. ఉక్కు ముఖి ukku-mukhi. n. The crimson crested barbet, or coppersmith bird,Xantholaema haemaxtocephala. (F.B.I.) ఉక్కుసున్నము ukku-sunnamu. n. Ashes of calcined iron, scoriæ calx.

Former provinces of Golconda, Mysore and Salem were renowned for making of ukku steel. One of the earliest known sites, which shows some promising preliminary evidence that may be linked to ferrous crucible processes in Kodumanal, near Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. The site is dated between the third century BCE and the third century CE.By the seventeenth century the main centre of crucible steel production seems to have been in Hyderabad. (Craddock, P.T, 2003. Cast Iron, Fined Iron, Crucible Steel: Liquid Iron in the Ancient World. In: P.T., Craddock, and J., Lang. (eds) Mining and Metal Production through the ages. London: The British Museum Press, p.245; Ranganathan, S. and Srinivasan, Sh., 2004. India`s Legendary Wootz steel, and advanced material of the ancient world. Bangalore: National Institute of Advanced Studies: Indian Institute of Science, p.117). “Central Asia has a rich history of crucible steel production, beginning during the late 1st millennium CE.From the sites in modern Uzbekistan and Merv in Turkmenistan, there exists good archaeological evidence for the large scale production of crucible steelThey all belong in broad terms to the same early medieval period between the late 8th or early 9th and the late 12th century CE. Contemporary with the early crusades.” (Wikipedia, opcit. Papakhristu, O. and Rehren, TH. (eds) 2000. Cutting Edge Technology- the Fraghana Process of medieval crucible steel smelting. Metalla 7.2, p.55, p. 58; Papakhristu, O.A., and Rehren, TH., 2002. Techniques and Technology of Ceramic Vessel Manufacture Crucibles for Wootz Smelting in Centural Asia. In: V., Kilikoglou, A., Hein, and Y., Maniatis (eds) Modern Trends in Scientific Studies on Ancient Ceramics, papers presented at the 5th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics, Athens 1999/ Oxford : Archaeopress, p.69; Papachristu, O., Rehren, TH., 2003. Similar like White and Black: a Comparison of Steel-making Crucibles from Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent. In: Th., Stöllner et al. (eds) Man and mining : Mensch und Bergbau : studies in honour of Gerd Weisgerber on occasion of his 65thbirthday. Bochum : Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, p.396).

"Crucible steel is generally attributed to production centres in India and Sri Lanka where it was produced using the so-called "wootz" (from Tamil word urukku (urukki-) to melt; Telugu, ukku) process, and it is assumed that its appearance in other locations was due to long distance trade.Only recently it has become apparent that places in Central Asia like Merv in Turkmenistan and Akhsiket in Uzbekistan were important centres of production of crucible steel. The Central Asian finds are all from excavations and date from the 8th to 12th centuries CE, while the Indian/Sri Lankan material is as early as 300 BCE. In addition, India's iron ore had trace vanadium and other rare earths leading to increased hardenability in Indian crucible steel which was famous throughout the middle east for its ability to retain an edge."(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucible_steel loc.cit. Feuerbach, A.M., 2002. Crucible Steel in Central Asia: Production, Use, and Origins: a dissertation presented to the University of London, p.13; Ranganathan, S. and Srinivasan, Sh., 2004. India`s Legendary Wootz steel, and advanced material of the ancient world. Bangalore: National Institute of Advanced Studies: Indian Institute of Science, p.126).

Making of 'wrought' iron

Carbon content defines the difference between wrought iron and steel. Steel with 0.7 per cent of carbon can be rendered hard and flexible to be a sword-blade. When the percentage of carbon is a high 1 per cent, iron becomes extremely hard and renders the metal brittle and is called ‘cast’ iron. Increase of carbon lowers the melting-point and allows the melting and casting of metal. “Eastern sword-blades. The Romans imported their best steel from the East, not in the form of blades but in cakes of steely iron (later known as wootz) manufactured in the Hyderabad region of India. The earliest known examples of this date from about the sixth century BCE, and by the first century CE Indian smiths were very skilled in its manipulation. It reached the Romans through Abyssinia, and was generally believed to come from China, as the real place of origin seems to have been kept a trade secret. The Romans knew it as Seric Iron. Parthian steel, made in Persia by a somewhat similar method, was also highly valued and widely exported. The Indian method was to heat black magnetite ore in the presence of carbon in a sealed clay crucible inside a charcoal furnace. (Accounts of the making of wootz are given by WH Schoff, ‘Eastern Iron Trade of the Roman Empire’, Journal American Oriental Society, XXXV, 1915, pp. 233f.; and HC Richardson, ‘Iron Prehistoric and Ancient’, American Journal of Archaeology (and series), xxxviii, 1934, p.580). An alternative to this was to smelt the ore first to give wrought iron, which was heated and hammered to free it from slag and broken up into small pieces, while the Persians generally used ironbars, heated with charcoal or plumbago. The carbon was obtained by the Indian smiths from bamboo and the leaves of certain plants, and the crucible was piled up with a number of others and heated in a furnace in a blast of air for about two-and-a-half hours. The ore was reduced to iron, which then began to absorb carbon; when it had absorbed 3 or 4 per cent, the melting point was lowered sufficienty for the iron to melt, just as the addition of salt lowers the melting-point of ice. The molten iron fused into a ‘button’ of metal, which according to some accounts was heated and cooled again four or five times, and according to others was left in the furnace and allowed to cool down with it…The best blades were forged in Persia from Indian steel, and although they took their name ‘damascened’ from Damascus, this does not appear to have been the most renowned centre for fine swords…an Arab poet Imru’ul-Qais, who died in CE 540…describes a sword-blade as having wavy marks like the tracks of ants, and another reference to a sword-blade from a slightly later poet, Aus ibn Hajar, which has ‘a water whose wavy streaks are glistening’.(Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson, 1998, The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England: Its Archaeology and Literature, Boydell & Brewer Ltd,, pp.20-22).

Three Bharatiya methods of carburization to make crucible steel

"According to Islamic texts such as al-Tarsusi and Abu Rayhan Biruni, three methods are described for indirect production of steel. The medieval Islamic historian Abu Rayhan Biruni (c. 973–1050) provides us with the earliest reference of the production of Damascus steel. He describes only three methods for producing steel.^[45] The first two methods have a long history in Central Asia and in the Indian subcontinent while the third is exclusive to South Asia. These three methods are generally considered to have originated from the Indian Subcontinent. The first method and the most common traditional method is solid state carburization of wrought iron. This is a diffusion process in which wrought iron is packed in crucibles or a hearth with charcoal, then heated to promote diffusion of carbon into the iron to produce steel. Carburization is the basis for the wootz process of steel. The second method is the decarburization of cast iron by removing carbon from the cast iron. Another indirect method uses wrought iron and cast iron. In this process, wrought iron and cast iron may be heated together in a crucible to produce steel by fusion.In regard to this method Abu Rayhan Biruni states: "this was the method used in Hearth". It is proposed that the Indian method refers to Wootz carburization method i.e. the Mysore or Tamilprocesses." (Wikipedia, opcit., Craddock, P.T, 2003. Cast Iron, Fined Iron, Crucible Steel: Liquid Iron in the Ancient World. In: P.T., Craddock, and J., Lang. (eds) Mining and Metal Production through the ages. London: The British Museum Press, p.242; Feuerbach, A.M., 2002. Crucible Steel in Central Asia: Production, Use, and Origins: a dissertation presented to the University of London.Feuerbach, A., Griffiths, D. R. and Merkel, J.F., 1997. Production of crucible steel by co-fusion: Archaeometallurgical evidence from the ninth- early tenth century at the site of Merv, Turkmenistan. In: J.R., Druzik, J.F., Merkel, J., Stewart and P.B., Vandiver (eds) Materials issues in art and archaeology V: symposium held 3–5 December 1996, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Pittsburgh, Pa: Materials Research Society, 105–109.Feuerbach, A., Griffiths, D., and Merkel, J.F., 1995. Analytical Investigation of Crucible Steel Production at Merv, Turkmenistan. IAMS 19, p.12.Feuerbach, A.M., Griffiths, D.R. and Merkel, J.F., 1998. An examination of crucible steel in the manufacture of Damascus steel, including evidence from Merv, Turkmenistan. Metallurgica Antiqua 8, pp. 38-39..Srinivasan, Sh., 1994. woots crucible steel: a newly discovered production site in south India. Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 5, p.56.)

S. Kalyanaraman

Sarasvati Research Center

March 15, 2016

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March 15, 2016, 8:45 am

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'Terrorists had planned to strike Somnath temple'

Vijaita Singh

The Hindu
In the wake of intelligence inputs on a possible terror strike by LeT operatives, Somnath temple on Saurashtra coast was earlier put on high alert.

Pakistan NSA had shared intel with Ajit Doval on possible terrorist infiltration; 3 of the 10 terrorists were "neutralised" three days ago.

A top Home Ministry official, on Tuesday, said that National Security Advisor of Pakistan Naseer Khan Janjua's inputs over infiltration of terrorist were correct.

He said that 3 of the ten terrorists were "neutralised" three days ago.

Plan to attack Somnath temple

The official said that they were not in a position to share any further information about the three killed terrorists as verification process was still on. He also said that the terrorists planned to strike the famous Somnath temple on the coast of Gujarat, ahead of Maha Shivratri celebrations last week.

"There are seven more, whom we have to track. The terrorists could belong to a third country as well," said the official.

Mr. Janjua had tipped off his counterpart Ajit Doval that they had information about ten terrorists, belonging to either Lashkar-e-Toiba or Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM).

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March 15, 2016, 4:36 pm

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Inspiring message of Kanchi Maha Periyava on Indian Independence. Valid even today. Watch and spread the message.

Thanks to TKV Rajan.

Kalyanaraman

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Ingelrii group of Viking swords are characterised by their blade inscriptions, stylised as INGELRII, INGELRD or INGELRILT. Could the word ingelrii be related to the following etyma: -- , iṁgāla, °aya 'charcoal' (Prkritam)? Charcoal is the ancient name for carbon to explain the carburization of soft metal to harden it, say, wrought iron into steel for blades of swords.

Dr. Vipin Kumar confirms that, according to Dr. Raghuvira's Comprehensive English - Hindi Dictionary, Carbon has been called अंगार, प्रांगार. हीरक.This book is available on digital library of India. This reaffirms that ingelrd was perhaps a cognate of iṁgāra 'carbon' (Prakrtam).

Ferrosilicon is a ferroalloy, an alloy of iron and silicon with an average silicon content between 15 and 90 weight percent. Ferrosilicon is produced by reduction of silica or sand with coke in presence of iron. We do not know if the smoke from godhUma 'wheat haystack' on caSAla yupa also induced silicon into wrought 'soft' iron to make it hard like steel.

Ingelrii is compared with Ulfberht the name given to a group of medieval swords, dated to the 9th to 11th centuries. The swords characteristically have blades inlaid with the inscription+VLFBERHT+ (and variants). "Ulfberht swords were made during a period when European swords were still predominantly pattern welded ("false Damascus"), but with larger blooms of steel gradually becoming available, so that higher quality swords made after AD 1000 are increasingly likely to have crucible steel blades. The group of Ulfberht swords includes a wide spectrum of steel and production method. One example from a 10th century grave in Nemilany, Moravia, has a pattern-welded core with welded-on hardened cutting edges. Another example appears to have been made from high-quality hypoeutectoid steel possibly imported from Central Asia.."(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulfberht_swords)

See: http://www.jenny-rita.org/Annestamanus.pdf

Two Ingelred swords as depicted by Wegeli (1904). Above: 10th-century sword found in Isac river, near Nantes, with an inscription read as INGELRED FIT by Wegeli; below: sword found near Uppsala, Sweden, with inscription INGEL.AH.

áṅgāra m. n. ʻ glowing charcoal ʼ RV., °aka -- lex. 2. *iṅgāra -- , iṅgāla -- m. Vāsav. com.1. Pa. aṅgāra -- m. ʻ charcoal ʼ, Pk. aṁgāra -- , °aya -- , aṁgāla -- , °aya -- m., Gy. eur. angár ʻ charcoal ʼ, wel. vaṅār m. (v -- from m. article), germ. yangar (y -- from yag, s.v.agní -- 1); Ash. aṅāˊ ʻ fire ʼ, Kt. aṅǻ, Gmb. aṅāˊ, Pr. anéye, Dm. aṅgar (a < ā NTS xii 130), Tir. Chilis Gau. K. nār (n < ṅ -- , not ← Psht. nār ← Ar. AO xii 184), Paš.aṅgāˊr, Shum. ã̄r (← Paš. NOGaw 59), Gaw. Kal. Kho. aṅgāˊr, Bshk. äṅgāˊr, Tor. aṅā, Mai. agār, Phal. aṅgṓr, Sh. agāˊr, ha° m.; S. aṅaru m. ʻ charcoal ʼ (a < ā as in Dm.), L. aṅgār m., P. aṅgyār, °rā m., EP. ãgeār (y or e from MIA. aggi < agní -- 1?), WPah. bhid. aṅgāˊrõ n., pl. -- ã, Ku. aṅār (ḍaṅār id. X ḍājṇo < dahyátē), N.aṅār, A. āṅgār, eṅgār, B. āṅgār, āṅrā, Or. aṅgāra; Bi. ãgarwāh ʻ man who cuts sugar -- cane into lengths for the mill ʼ (= pakwāh); OMth. aṁgāra, Mth. ãgor, H.ãgār, °rā m., G. ãgār, °rɔ m., M. ãgār m., Si. an̆gura. -- Wg. ãdotdot;ř, ã̄īˊ ʻ fire ʼ (as opp. to aṅarīˊk ʻ charcoal ʼ, see aṅgāryāˊ -- ) poss. < agní -- 1, Morgenstierne NTS xvii 226.
2. Pa. iṅghāḷa -- ʻ glowing embers (?) ʼ, Pk. iṁgāra -- , iṁgāla, °aya -- ; K. yĕngur m. ʻ charcoal ʼ, yĕnguru m. ʻ charcoal -- burner ʼ; M. ĩgaḷ, ĩgḷā m., Ko. ĩgḷo. -- Deriv. M. ĩgḷā m. ʻ a kind of large ant ʼ, ĩgḷī f. ʻ a large black deadly scorpion ʼ.
aṅgāraka -- , aṅgāri -- , aṅgāryāˊ -- ; aṅgāradhānī -- , *aṅgāravarta -- , *aṅgārasthāna -- , *aṅgr̥ṣṭha -- .
Addenda: áṅgāra -- : Md. an̆guru ʻ charcoal ʼ.(CDIAL 125)
aṅgāraka 126 aṅgāraka ʻ *red like embers ʼ, m. ʻ charcoal; name of various plants ʼ (aṅgārikā -- f. ʻ stalk of sugar -- cane, flower of Butea frondosa ʼ). 2. m. ʻ the planet Mars ʼ. [áṅgāra -- ]
1. Pa. aṅgāraka -- ʻ red like charcoal ʼ; S. aṅārī f. ʻ smut in wheat ʼ; WPah. bhal. aṅāˊri f. ʻ a plant with red flowers ʼ.
2. Pa. aṅgāraka -- m. ʻ Mars ʼ, Pk. aṁgāraya -- m.; S. aṅāro m. ʻ Tuesday ʼ.
127 aṅgāradhānī -- , °ikā -- f. ʻ portable stove ʼ lex. [áṅgāra -- , dhāˊna -- ]
Paš. aṅgarāˊn, aṅgaranīˊ ʻ fireplace ʼ.aṅgāravarta 128 *aṅgāravarta m. ʻ fire stone ʼ. [áṅgāra -- , *varta -- 3]
Ash. aṅalawaṭ (r -- r > l -- r).aṅgārasthāna 129 *aṅgārasthāna n. ʻ fireplace ʼ. [áṅgāra -- , sthāˊna -- ]
Dm. aṅgarthäĩ (perh. a Dm. cmpd.). -- See *agnisthāna -- .aṅgāri 130 aṅgāri f., aṅgāritā -- f. ʻ portable brazier ʼ lex. [áṅgāra -- ]
H. ãgārī f.
Addenda: aṅgāri -- : †*aṅgāriṣṭha -- .
130a †*aṅgāriṣṭha -- ʻ portable brazier ʼ. [aṅgāri -- , stha -- : cf. agniṣṭhá -- ]
WPah.kṭg. garṭhɔ m. ʻ charcoal ʼ; J. gārṭhā m. ʻ a small burning coal ʼ.
131 aṅgāryāˊ -- , *aṅgāriyā -- , f. ʻ heap of embers ʼ. [Cf. aṅgā- rīya -- ʻ fit for making charcoal ʼ, aṅgārikā -- f., angāritā -- f. ʻ portable fireplace ʼ lex.: áṅgāra -- ]Wg. aṅarīˊk, aṅgríč ʻ charcoal ʼ; Paš. aṅgerík ʻ black charcoal ʼ, Shum. ãdotdot;gerík; Phal. aṅgerīˊ ʻ charcoal ʼ, aṅgerīˊṣi f. ʻ black charcoal ʼ; Ku. aṅāri ʻ sparks ʼ; G. ãgārī f. ʻ small hearth with embers in it ʼ.

Te. boggu charcoal, carbon. Kol. (Kin.) bogg charcoal. Pa. bog (pl. boggul), bogum (pl. bogmul) id. Ga. (S.2) bogge id. Kuwi (F.) bogūŋa id.? Malt. posaṉg̣esoot. Br. pōg̠ẖ charcoal. (DEDR 4467) Ta. pukai smoke, mist, vapour, steam; (-v-, -nt-) to smoke, emit vapour or steam; (-pp- -tt-) to cause to smoke; pukaiccal smoke; pukaippu smoking, fumigation; pukaivu smoking;
pukār mist, fog, haze. Ma. puka smoke, vapour; pukayuka to reek, look dim, be darkened by smoke; pukekka to fumigate, preserve or dry by smoke. Ko. peg smoke; pog, po· tobacco. To. pax smoke, tobacco. Ka. poge to smoke; n. smoke, steam, vapour. Koḍ. poge smoke. Tu. pugè, pogè smoke, vapour, fume; pugeyuni to smoke; pugepuni, pogepuni to fumigate. Te. poga, pova smoke, fume; pogayu, povayu to smoke; pogucu, pogacu, (K. also) pogapu to smoke, fumigate, fry, season with spices; pogapu, pogupu frying, seasoning with spices. Kol. pog smoke, to bacco. Nk. pog smoke. Ga. (Oll.) pog, (S.) pōgu id.; (S.2) pogasur soot (see 2686 Te. cūru); (S.3) pōgu smoke; pōga tobacco; pogḍ- (poguḍ-) to fill with smoke. Go. (M.) pogo, (L.) pogā tobacco (Voc. 2372b); (A. SR. S.) poya, (G. Mu. Ma.) poyo, (M.) poī smoke; (Mu.) poy- to smoke (intr.) (Voc.2398); (ASu.) poyyūs- to season (curry). Konḍa pogo smoke. Kui (K.) pōkaṛi id. Kuwi (F.) bhoiyi, (S.) bōi, (Su.) bōyi, (Isr.) bōyī, (P.) bũy, (Mah., p. 75) po'kaṛi id. (DEDR 4240).

dhūmá m. ʻ smoke, vapour, mist ʼ RV. 2. dhūmikā -- f. ʻ smoke ʼ Kathās., ʻ fog ʼ lex., or *dhūmiyā -- , dhūmyā -- f. ʻ thick cloud of smoke ʼ Mālatīm.1. Pa. Pk. dhūma -- m. ʻ smoke ʼ; Gy. eur. thuv m. ʻ smoke ʼ, pal. dif ʻ tobacco ʼ; Ḍ. dūm m. ʻ smoke ʼ, Ash. dūm, Wg. dum, Kt. dyūm, Pr. ulyūmo, Dm. dum, Tir. (Leech) "dhùng", Paš.lauṛ. dhūm, gul. dūm, Shum. dūm, Niṅg. Woṭ. Gaw. dum, Kal.rumb. thum (thumaṛa ʻ dust -- storm? ʼ), urt. dhūm, Sh.gil. dum m., gur. koh. dūmm., pales. d(h)ūm, jij. d'ūm (koh. ŭdŭm ʻ dust ʼ X ŭdŭ < *uddhūḍi -- ); L. dhū̃ m. ʻ smoke ʼ, dhūã̄ m. ʻ small lighted heap of rubbish, place where such rubbish is kept ʼ, awāṇ. dhūã̄ m. ʻ smoke ʼ; P. dhū̃, dhūã̄ m. ʻ smoke ʼ, Ku. dhuwã̄, gng. dhũw, N. dhuwã̄, A. dhūwā, dhõwā, B. dhũyā, dhõyā, Or. Mth. Bhoj. dhuã̄, OAw. dhūāṁ m., H.dhūã̄, dhuwã̄ m., G. dhūm, dhūv dhumāṛɔ m., Si. duma. -- S. dū̃hõ m. ʻ smoke ʼ < *dhūmaśa -- ? -- See Add.2. Pk. dhūmiā -- f. ʻ fog, mist ʼ; Bshk. dīmī ʻ smoke ʼ, Tor. dhimī, Sv. dhumḗ, Phal. dhūmīˊ f.; P. dhūī˜ f. ʻ small heap of burning chaff round which Moslems sit while listening to praises of Pir Sayad Ahmad ʼ; B. dhũi ʻ an ascetic's fire ʼ; M. dhuī f. ʻ fog. ʼ.*dhūmara -- , dhūmarī -- , dhūmala -- , *dhūmaśa -- , dhūmāyati, dhūmikā -- , *dhūmiyā -- , dhūmrá -- ; *dhūmakaṭacchu -- , dhūmágandhi -- , *dhūmaghara -- , dhūmākāra -- , *dhūmākhara -- , *dhūmāndha -- , dhūmōdgāra -- .Addenda: dhūmá -- : 1. S.kcch. dhū̃āṛo m. ʻ smoke ʼ; WPah.kṭg. (kc.) dhū̃ with high falling tone, kṭg. dhùtilde;ɔ m. id., dh&vgravetilde;i f. ʻ mist, fog ʼ; J. dhuwã̄ m. ʻ smoke ʼ, Garh. dhuwã̄, Md. dum.(CDIAL 6849)

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