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Alternative hieroglyphs for karaDa 'hard alloy' are: water-vessel, basket, beehive, duck, antelope, safflower.
Meluhha metalwork competence is exemplified by a gloss: karaḍa'hard metal alloy' (Marathi). This indicates the explorations made by Meluhha artisans to create new metal alloys to make weapons, tools, implements, pots and pans. Alloys are defined by metallic bonding character. This bonding is signified by a gloss: sanghAta 'adamantine glue' (Varahamihira). This gloss is signified by a hieroglyph: sangaDa 'lathe, portable furnace' which is a frequently occurring hieroglyph-multiplex on Indus Script Corpora.
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Hieroglyphs which signify the Indus Script Corpora, catalogus catalogurm of metalwork with a number of metalwork catalogue items are seen on Ancient Near East artifacts/cylinder seals.
These may be called allographs, that is, hieroglyphs offering the same rebus-metonymy layered reading for a hieroglyph which functions as a homonym, say, for the deciphered semantics: karaḍa 'hard metal alloy' (Marathi)
The hieroglyphs so deployed to encode karaḍa 'hard metal alloy' (Marathi) are sigified in the following examples of artifacts/cylinder seals.
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Shu-ilishu cylinder seal. Note the water-vessel held by the woman accompanying the Meluhha merchant. The rollout of Shu-ilishu's Cylinder seal. Courtesy of the Department des Antiquites Orientales, Musee du Louvre, Paris.A Mesopotamian cylinder seal referring to the personal translator of the ancient Indus or Meluhan language, Shu-ilishu, who lived around 2020 BCE during the late Akkadian period. The late Dr. Gregory L. Possehl, a leading Indus scholar, tells the story of getting a fresh rollout of the seal during its visit to the Ancient Cities Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2004.
கரண்டை² karaṇṭai, n. < karaṇḍa. Water- vessel, used by ascetics; கமண்டலம். சிமிலிக் கரண்டையன் (மணி. 3, 86). करोट [p= 255,3] m. a basin , cup L.
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British Museum. 22.5 cm h. Wallet shaped chlorite of BMAC. Arye 'lion' Rebus: Ara 'brass' nAga 'serpent' Rebus: nAga 'lead'..
करण्ड mf(ई L. )n. ( Un2. i , 128) a basket or covered box of bamboo wicker-work BhP. Bhartr2. &c (Samskritam) Karaṇḍaka [fr. last] a box, basket, casket, as dussa˚ Mi. 215=S v. 71=A iv. 230 (in simile); S iii. 131; v. 351 cp. Pug 34; J i 96; iii. 527; v. 473 (here to be changed into koraṇḍaka); DA i. 222 (vilīva˚); SnA 11.Karaṇḍa (m. nt.) [cp. Sk. karaṇḍa, ˚ka, ˚ikā. The Dhātu- mañjūsā expls k. by "bhājanatthe"] 1. a basket or box of wicker -- work Mhvs 31, 98; Dāvs v. 60; DhAiii. 18; -- 2. the cast skin, slough of a serpent D i. 77 (=DA i. 222 ahi -- kañcuka) cp. Dial. i. 88. (Pali) గరిడియ (p. 0358) [ gariḍiya ] gariḍiya. [from Skt. కరండము .] n. A wallet, or basket for food, &c. బుట్ట . M. III. vii. 221. భార. అర . vii. (Telugu)káraṇḍa1 m.n. ʻ basket ʼ BhP., °ḍaka -- m., °ḍī -- f. lex.Pa. karaṇḍa -- m.n., °aka -- m. ʻ wickerwork box ʼ, Pk. karaṁḍa -- , °aya -- m. ʻ basket ʼ, °ḍī -- , °ḍiyā -- f. ʻ small do. ʼ; K. kranḍa m. ʻ large covered trunk ʼ,kronḍu m. ʻ basket of withies for grain ʼ, krünḍü f. ʻ large basket of withies ʼ; Ku. kaṇḍo ʻ basket ʼ; N. kaṇḍi ʻ basket -- like conveyance ʼ; A. karṇi ʻ open clothes basket ʼ; H. kaṇḍī f. ʻ long deep basket ʼ; G. karãḍɔ m. ʻ wicker or metal box ʼ, kãḍiyɔ m. ʻ cane or bamboo box ʼ; M. karãḍ m. ʻ bamboo basket ʼ, °ḍā m. ʻ covered bamboo basket, metal box ʼ, °ḍī f. ʻ small do. ʼ; Si. karan̆ḍuva ʻ small box or casket ʼ. -- Deriv. G. kãḍī m. ʻ snake -- charmer who carries his snakes in a wicker basket ʼ.(CDIAL 2789) kronḍu, Skt. karaṇḍa-, a basket (Kashmiri)
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Lothal seal 51 Hieroglyph: pōḷī, ‘dewlap, honeycomb’ pola, 'zebu' Rebus: pola, ‘magnetite’
करण्ड a [p= 254,2] a bee-hive , honey-comb L.
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Akkadian Cylinder Seal of Adda (c. 2250 B.C.) with, left to right, Ninurta, Ishtar, Shamash, and Ea. From Dury, Art of the Ancient Near and Middle East, Abrams, NY
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Impression. Unknown Near Eastern origin. 'One of the two anthropomorphic figures carved on this seal wears the horns of water buffalo while sitting on a throne with hoofed legs, surrounded by snakes, fishes and water buffaloes. Photo by M Chuzeville for Departement des antiquities orientales, Musee du Louvre.' (Parpola, 1998, 2001) http://www.harappa.com/script/parpola0.html (Note 11)
The bird hieroglyph: karaḍa
करण्ड m. a sort of duck L. కారండవము (p. 0274) [ kāraṇḍavamu ] kāraṇḍavamu. [Skt.] n. A sort of duck. (Telugu) karaṭa1 m. ʻ crow ʼ BhP., °aka -- m. lex. [Cf. karaṭu -- , karkaṭu -- m. ʻ Numidian crane ʼ, karēṭu -- , °ēṭavya -- , °ēḍuka -- m. lex., karaṇḍa2 -- m. ʻ duck ʼ lex: see kāraṇḍava -- ]Pk. karaḍa -- m. ʻ crow ʼ, °ḍā -- f. ʻ a partic. kind of bird ʼ; S. karaṛa -- ḍhī˜gu m. ʻ a very large aquatic bird ʼ; L. karṛā m., °ṛī f. ʻ the common teal ʼ.(CDIAL 2787)
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Dholavira seal. 117. Antelope kid PUS sun hieroglyph http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2015/04/two-newly-discovered-seals-from.html
http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2015/08/indus-script-hieroglyphs-on-ancient.html . arka 'sun' Rebus: araka, eraka 'copper, moltencast' PLUS करडूं karaḍū 'kid' Rebus: karaḍā 'hard alloy'. Thus, together, the rebus message: hard alloy of copper.
करडूं or करडें [ karaḍū or ṅkaraḍēṃ ] n A kid. (Marathi) కారండవము (p. 0274) [ kāraṇḍavamu ] kāraṇḍavamu. [Skt.] n. A kind of antelopeకన్నెలేడి . (Telugu) కన్నెలేడి [ kannelēḍi ] , or కామిలేడిపిట్ట kanne-lēḍi. [Tel.] n. The bird called the Bastard Florikin: or stone-curlew, &OE;dicnemus scolopax. (F.B.I.) కారండవము .
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Safflower bracelet. From the stone reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II. Wrist with a safflower bracelet: safflower karaḍī as fire-god karandi
See: http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2014/07/tin-road-meluhha-aratta-assur-kanesh.html
करडी [ karaḍī ] f (Seeकरडई ) Safflower: also its seed. (Marathi) karaṭa2 m. ʻ Carthamus tinctorius ʼ lex.Pk. karaḍa -- m. ʻ safflower ʼ, °ḍā -- f. ʻ a tree like the karañja ʼ; M. karḍī, °ḍaī f. ʻ safflower, Carthamus tinctorius and its seed ʼ.M. karḍel n. ʻ oil from the seed of safflower ʼ(CDIAL 2788, 2789)
S. Kalyanaraman
Sarasvati Research Center
August 17, 2015
Alternative hieroglyphs for karaDa 'hard alloy' are: water-vessel, basket, beehive, duck, antelope, safflower.
Meluhha metalwork competence is exemplified by a gloss: karaḍa'hard metal alloy' (Marathi). This indicates the explorations made by Meluhha artisans to create new metal alloys to make weapons, tools, implements, pots and pans. Alloys are defined by metallic bonding character. This bonding is signified by a gloss: sanghAta 'adamantine glue' (Varahamihira). This gloss is signified by a hieroglyph: sangaDa 'lathe, portable furnace' which is a frequently occurring hieroglyph-multiplex on Indus Script Corpora.
Hieroglyphs which signify the Indus Script Corpora, catalogus catalogurm of metalwork with a number of metalwork catalogue items are seen on Ancient Near East artifacts/cylinder seals.
These may be called allographs, that is, hieroglyphs offering the same rebus-metonymy layered reading for a hieroglyph which functions as a homonym, say, for the deciphered semantics: karaḍa 'hard metal alloy' (Marathi)
The hieroglyphs so deployed to encode karaḍa 'hard metal alloy' (Marathi) are sigified in the following examples of artifacts/cylinder seals.
Shu-ilishu cylinder seal. Note the water-vessel held by the woman accompanying the Meluhha merchant. The rollout of Shu-ilishu's Cylinder seal. Courtesy of the Department des Antiquites Orientales, Musee du Louvre, Paris.A Mesopotamian cylinder seal referring to the personal translator of the ancient Indus or Meluhan language, Shu-ilishu, who lived around 2020 BCE during the late Akkadian period. The late Dr. Gregory L. Possehl, a leading Indus scholar, tells the story of getting a fresh rollout of the seal during its visit to the Ancient Cities Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2004.கரண்டை² karaṇṭai, n. < karaṇḍa. Water- vessel, used by ascetics; கமண்டலம். சிமிலிக் கரண்டையன் (மணி. 3, 86). करोट [p= 255,3] m. a basin , cup L.
British Museum. 22.5 cm h. Wallet shaped chlorite of BMAC. Arye 'lion' Rebus: Ara 'brass' nAga 'serpent' Rebus: nAga 'lead'..करण्ड mf(ई L. )n. ( Un2. i , 128) a basket or covered box of bamboo wicker-work BhP. Bhartr2. &c (Samskritam) Karaṇḍaka [fr. last] a box, basket, casket, as dussa˚ M
Lothal seal 51 Hieroglyph: pōḷī, ‘dewlap, honeycomb’ pola, 'zebu' Rebus: pola, ‘magnetite’ करण्ड a [p= 254,2] a bee-hive , honey-comb L.
Akkadian Cylinder Seal of Adda (c. 2250 B.C.) with, left to right, Ninurta, Ishtar, Shamash, and Ea. From Dury, Art of the Ancient Near and Middle East, Abrams, NY
Impression. Unknown Near Eastern origin. 'One of the two anthropomorphic figures carved on this seal wears the horns of water buffalo while sitting on a throne with hoofed legs, surrounded by snakes, fishes and water buffaloes. Photo by M Chuzeville for Departement des antiquities orientales, Musee du Louvre.' (Parpola, 1998, 2001) http://www.harappa.com/script/parpola0.html (Note 11)
The bird hieroglyph: karaḍa
करण्ड m. a sort of duck L. కారండవము (p. 0274) [ kāraṇḍavamu ] kāraṇḍavamu. [Skt.] n. A sort of duck. (Telugu) karaṭa
Dholavira seal. 117. Antelope kid PUS sun hieroglyph http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2015/04/two-newly-discovered-seals-from.htmlhttp://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2015/08/indus-script-hieroglyphs-on-ancient.html . arka 'sun' Rebus: araka, eraka 'copper, moltencast' PLUS करडूं karaḍū 'kid' Rebus: karaḍā 'hard alloy'. Thus, together, the rebus message: hard alloy of copper.
करडूं or करडें [ karaḍū or ṅkaraḍēṃ ] n A kid. (Marathi) కారండవము (p. 0274) [ kāraṇḍavamu ] kāraṇḍavamu. [Skt.] n. A kind of antelope
Safflower bracelet. From the stone reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II. Wrist with a safflower bracelet: safflower karaḍī as fire-god karandi See: http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2014/07/tin-road-meluhha-aratta-assur-kanesh.html
करडी [ karaḍī ] f (See
S. Kalyanaraman
Sarasvati Research Center
August 17, 2015