On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c7.s3.29

c7.s3.29

The later Vedic literature contains also a few evidently Semitic legends, among which that of the Deluge and Manu's preservation in a ship, built by the advice of a miraculous fish, is the most noteworthy,³ and it is possible, that they may have been brought over from Mesopotamia by the early Indian navigators and traders. But this is of course a mere possibility, and other explanations of their occurrence in the Brahmanical literature may be and have been, suggested. The passages, adduced above, are however sufficient to prove that the Indo-Aryans began to navigate the Indian Ocean in very remote times, and it is, therefore, quite imaginable that they themselves imported the Semitic letters from Mesopotamia.¹