The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c6.71

c6.71

Possibly progressive desiccation of the neighbourhood was the cause. Meanwhile, this civilization does not appear to have vanished without leaving any influence on its successors. As already stated, Professor S. Langdon detects its influence on the Brahmi script, Sir John Marshall on Hindu religious symbols. But for Colonel Waddell's supposition that the people of Mohenjodaro and Harappa were the ancestors of the Hindu Aryans there is at present no evidence.