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The Indus script, also known as the Harappan script and the Indus Valley script, is a corpus of symbols produced by the Indus Valley Civilisation.Most inscriptions containing these symbols are extremely short, making it difficult to judge whether or not they constituted a writing system used to record a Harappan language, any of which are yet to be identified. [3]
A pictogram (also pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto [1]) is a graphical symbol that conveys meaning through its visual resemblance to a physical object. Pictograms are used in systems of writing and visual communication.
A pictograph (also called pictogram or pictogramme) is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
The first Western edition of the Sanskrit text was published in 1886 by Edward Byles Cowell and R.A. Neil. [4] The Sanskrit text was again edited by P. L. Vaidya in 1959. [5] The Aśokāvadāna part of Divyavadana compiled during 4-5th century A.D. by sectarian Mathura's Buddhist monks [6]
According to the classical theory, because ideographs directly reflected the forms, they were the only "true language", [10] and had the unique ability to communicate arcane wisdom to readers. [11] The ability to read Egyptian hieroglyphs had been lost during late antiquity, in the context of the country's Hellenization and Christianization.
There are several versions of Ashokavadana, dating from 5th century CE to 16th century CE. [5] Some date the earliest finished form of the text back to 2nd century CE, although its oral origins may go back to 2nd century BCE. [6] The extant version of Ashokavadana is a part of Divyavadana, a Sanskrit-language anthology of Buddhist narratives.
The Saraswati Vandana (Sanskrit: सरस्वती वन्दना, romanized: Sarasvatī Vandanā) is a Hindu mantra. It is addressed to the goddess Saraswati , the goddess of knowledge, music, art, speech, wisdom, and learning.
Firstly, pictographs became distinct from simple pictures in use and appearance: for example, the pictograph 大, meaning 'large', was originally a picture of a large man, but one would need to be aware of its specific meaning in order to interpret the sequence 大鹿 as signifying 'large deer', rather than being a picture of a large man and a ...