Harappa is located near the Ravi river. Since it was a river-civilization, it's highly possible that the place was designated so by the Indus people.
Now, the Indus script has been widely speculated to be of Dravidian origin. So may be it might help to see Harappa from a Dravidian prism. Which brings us to Tamil - the oldest living Dravidian language. Tamil might shed more light on how 'Harappa' the name was picked.
The thing to note is ancient Tamil didn't have the 'ha' sound. The practise was to substitute 'ha' with 'aa'. Given this background, may be HARAPPA was AARAPPA.
AARAPPA offers exciting possibilities. Because AARU in Tamil means 'River'. And AARAPPAN means 'one who lives near a river'.
May be people of the Harappan civilzation were referred to as 'AARAPANS' and over a period of the Northies started calling it HARAPPA. Sounds plausible?
NOTE: By the same logic, the Ravi river may also owe its origins to Tamil. You just have to look at the word ARUVI. It means river in Tamil and when uttered many times, it reads as RUVI or RAVI!!
Who given name harrapa to that indus region?
ReplyDeleteJohn Marshall
DeleteHarappa is the name of the nearest village of that site
ReplyDeleteAny authentic proof for this????
ReplyDeleteBeing harappa is a north indian state , how it got connected with south indian language?
ReplyDeleteThe proofs are carbon dating and genetic results matching south indian ancient cities. You will also get more info in Thozhkapiyam ancient text which documented many things well.
DeleteHey Looser! Scientists already have proved Indian (north, west, east or south) have same DNA samples till last 40,000 years. Take your language & regional politics up your a$$!
Deleteaii indians do not have the same dna ! see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6288199/figure/fig3/?report=objectonly
DeleteAbove stated seems logically correct but no authentic evidence, which could prove that it is correct, because of no literary source of this period.
ReplyDeleteI can see that even Nagar word origin is from Naagas ethinic group who once spread across India.. Nagaland, nagpur, Nagarkovil and this word is part of Deva NAGARI script.. Nagari again used by Naagas.. People says that Sanskrit is the origin for the word which is completely wrong as Sanskrit was a spoken language and don't have a script. Hindi is originated from devanagari..
ReplyDeleteQuite useful
ReplyDeleteTake your language & regional politics up your a$$!
ReplyDeleteSuper ... actually we cant judge about oldest language ... because tamil doesn't have proper word pronounce, i.e., tamil people say the name "actor kamal hasan" as gamal gasan ... they dont have proper words for the pronouncing. We can make them confused by words twist example .. Baba word could be called as papa, bapa, paba,other languages are rich with the vocal words... finally we can't be judgemental with which one is oldest language....
DeleteHEY, INDECENT DEBATER ! INDUS SARASWATHI WAS DRAVIDIAN AS PROVED BY GENETIC STUDIES FROM 523 ANCIENT DANA SAMPLES FROM IRAN AND TURRAN AND COMPLEMENTED BY PHYSICAL VERIFICATION WITH THE DNA OF THE KALASH PEOPLE OF PAKISTAN AND ALSO BY RAKHIGARHI !
ReplyDeleteTAMIL IS THE OLDEST AS PROVED BY M130 HAPLO GROUP OF 70, 000 YEARS STILL AVAILABLE IN A VILLAGE NEAR MADURAI !
ReplyDeleteAlexander cunningham in his book "The ancient geographica of India" describe a imaginary story on page no 168 that in ancient time there was a king named harappa in that region and may be bcz of that the place got its name .
ReplyDeleteJohn marshell named this civilization as indus civilization and Rafeeq mughal named this civilization as Indusvalley civilization .
Also The site takes its name from a modern village located near the former course of the Ravi River which now runs 8 km (5.0 mi) to the north. The current village of Harappa is less than 1 km (0.62 mi) from the ancient site.
ReplyDeletethe word nager has come from the word nangol for plough spoken in the Indus. more can be found in the book entitled Nanjinadu: Harbinger of Rice and Plough Culture in the Ancient world.
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