Iravatham Mahadevan

Articles by Iravatham Mahadevan, Indus Research Centre, Chennai

The Indus Fish Swam in the Great Bath

Iravatham Mahadevan

Iravatham Mahadevan considers this late 2011 paper to be "one of the most important papers I have written."

How did the ‘great god’ get a ‘blue neck’?

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A remarkable bilingual clue to the Indus script is examined.

Segmentation of Indus Texts

Nisha Yadav

A statistical analysis by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Team.

A Megalithic Pottery Inscription and a Harappa Tablet: A case of extraordinary resemblance

Iravatham Mahadevan

This paper examines the resemblance between an inscribed terracotta dish from approximately 100 BCE and a three-sided tablet found in Harappa.

A Note on the Muruku Sign of the Indus Script in light of the Mayiladuthurai Stone Axe Discovery

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A proposed Indus reading.

Agricultural Terms in the Indus Script

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Iravatham Mahadevan explores a set of ancient Indus signs that he believes are related to agriculture using comparisons to signs in ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations.

Meluhha and Agastya: Alpha and Omega of the Indus Script

Iravatham Mahadevan

In a tour-de-force of interpretation, Iravatham Mahadevan attempts to interpret two of the most common ancient Indus signs using parallels from old Tamil.