Sanskrit Names: from Hieroglyphic to Mandaic Texts & Biblical Words in Bengali
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This book, the fourth in the series by this author exploring the link between the Ancient Near East and Indian prehistory, begins with Sanskrit names in the Pyramid and Coffin Texts. The discovery of Rigvedic terms in hieroglyphic writings for words set aside as obscure by Egyptologists brings revolutionary changes in our knowledge of ancient history. They show the presence of the Rigveda priests in Egypt, and their knowledge of Egyptian language. Above all, the known meanings of those obscure terms give many new nuances to the so called Egyptian mythology. The book describes Philae (Greek,) Phaliga of the Rigveda, the seat of a very ancient religious conclave organized by the Asiatic colonizers of Nubia, the existence of which is mentioned only once in a 12th dynasty account known as The Story of Sinuhe translated by Gardiner, A. H. This is followed by a brief account of ancient Nubia (south-east Egypt,) and then a list of the Rigvedic names and terms in the Egyptian Coffin texts. Matching of Egyptian and Sanskrit names and terms help better understanding of both the Egyptian funeral texts and the ancient Indian literature related to that. This is true in spite of the fact that the funeral texts compiled by Egyptologists have no chronological order or historical sequence. Many texts were damaged and unreadable. Egyptologist had to compile and complete various sections, copying from the legible parts of various undamaged texts, probably composed at different times. This problem could be solved with the help of Indian texts. Bengali is a language of Indian state of West Bengal, and Bangla Deša, spoken by well over two hundred fifty million people. The book brings out how it betrayed its Canaanite philology from the verbal roots, particles to highly sophisticated biblical phrases. Numerous Biblical phrases with their intact senses have been preserved as Bengali words. Excluding the phrase words, Bengali possesses an immense number of particles and verbal roots from various non-Indo-Aryan languages. A clever device of auxiliary verbs borrowed from Sanskrit help the language to preserve its millennium old verbal roots intact and uninflected by suffixes, while the auxiliaries are inflected. The book also brings out close prehistoric contacts of Canaanites, Mandaeans and Konkanis in ancient Nubia. Analysis of Mandaean priestly title revealed that they served the Hyksos Kings as soldiers and once their ancestors lived in Egypt and Nubia. Each chapter includes explanation of methods and sources of data entailed in that chapter. It may be emphasized that the single most important feature of ancient Indian names for divinities, dignitaries, kings, ethnic names and epithets is that they are composed of place names. In lieu of a term for the most important characteristic of ancient Indian names, “topophorous” has been used for names compounded with place names. Matching of those ancient places with names in Egyptian, Indian and in other Near Eastern texts provides undeniable authenticity to the mythical records of prehistoric events.
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This book begins with Sanskrit names in the Pyramid and Coffin Texts. The discovery of the Rigvedic terms in hieroglyphic writings for words set aside as obscure by Egyptologists brings revolutionary changes in our knowledge of ancient history. The known meanings of those obscure terms give many new nuances to the so-called Egyptian mythology. The matching of Egyptian and Sanskrit names and terms help with better understanding of both the Egyptian funeral texts and the ancient Indian literature related to that. This is true even though the funeral texts compiled by Egyptologists have no chronological order or historical sequence. Egyptologists had to compile and complete various sections, copying from the legible parts of various undamaged texts, probably composed at different times. This problem could be solved with the help of Indian texts. The book shows numerous biblical phrases with their intact senses that have been preserved as Bengali words. Excluding the phrase words, Bengali possesses an immense number of particles and verbal roots from various non-Indo-Aryan languages. A clever device of auxiliary verbs borrowed from Sanskrit help the language preserve its millennium-old verbal roots, intact and uninflected by suffixes, while the auxiliaries are inflected. The book shines light on close prehistoric contacts of Canaanites, Mandaeans, and Konkanis in ancient Nubia. The single most important feature of ancient Indian names for divinities, dignitaries, and kings is that they are composed of place-names. The matching of those ancient places with names in Egyptian, Indian, and other Near Eastern texts provides undeniable authenticity to the mythical records of prehistoric events.
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Liny Srinivasan received a B.A from the University of Calcutta, and a M.A from University of Poona, India. She then held the position of Lecturer in charge of the Dept. of Geography at Nistarini College, Purulia, India. Liny further received a M.A from SUNY, Binghamton, NY, and a Ph.D from University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA both in Geography. She was a Fulbright scholar for research on The Hindu Temples in Calcutta. After the discovery of Near Eastern Origin of Desi i.e., non-Sanskrit words in major Indian languages, particularly in Bengali and publication of a joint article with Prof. Cyrus H. Gordon in Mother Tongue, the journal of ASLIP in 1995, she published four books, three in English and one in Bengali, and numerous articles. The work is a culmination of many years of research.