[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c7.1205 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.1205 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.1205 - **Language:** English ### [c7.1205](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1205) All these clay tablets have been removed to the British Museum. It took several decades to decipher them. When these clay tablets were discovered there was not a single man who could read and understand them, in the world. In spite of hard work, several years passed by without getting even a single tablet deciphered. They were written in ‘Accadean’, which was the language of the court of Aśurbānipāl and the national and the international language of the time. Another copy of this great work was discovered on the bank of the Euphrates, where the capital of the famous King Hāmurābi of Ancient Babylon stood. Later discoveries disclosed that this great work Gilgamish was part and parcel of the famous ancient civilization of the Oriental countries. The Hittites and the Egyptians tried to translate this book Gilgāmish into their own languages. In the tablets with letters in the form of arrow heads, found on the bank of the Nile, the portions which were difficult for them to translate, are given red marks. - [Previous: c7.1204](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1204) - [Next: c7.1206](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1206) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1205](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1205) · Pramāṇa