The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables c4.s4.11

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We cannot enter into a detailed discussion of the Indus script and its study here. For this, the reader is referred to literature published elsewhere.⁴² In the sequel we shall only try to justify our this view, mention may be made of S.R. Rao (The Decipherment of the Indus script, New Delhi 1982), who derives the Brahmi script as well as the Semitic alphabet from the Indus script. However, it is a well-established fact that the Brahmi script is derived from the Semitic consonantal alphabet, and this in turn from the uniconsonantal signs of the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. Cf. e.g. Georg Bühler, Indische Palaeographie, Grundriss der Indo-Arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde I:11, Strassburg 1896, 10ff.; A.H. Dani, Indian Palaeography, Oxford 1963, 23ff.; I.J. Gelb, A study of writing, 2 ed., Chicago 1963, 147ff, 197f.