Richter-Ushanas, Egbert

The Indus script & the Rig-Veda/ Egbert Richter-Ushanas - 2nd. ed. - Delhi : MBP, 2001. - 326p. : ill. ; 23cm.

I. The Indus script and the Rg-Veda
1. The historical background
2. The evidence of a bilingual
3. Short inscriptions (one to six signs)
4. Narrative motifs
5. Long inscriptions
6. Inscriptions of the Late Harappa phase
7. The unicom-standard and the Soma-plant
II. The lord of the beasts and the deity in the tree
III. Seals and tablets with anthropomorphic motifs
1. Compound motifs
2. The centaur
3. Standing homed person ± arch
4. Man in yoga-posture ± snakes or crocodiles
5. Deity between two tigers
6. The tiger and the goddess in a kino tree
7.'The sacred marriage
IV. Seals and tablets with composite animals
V. The bull upon the woman and the asvamedha
VI. Pururavas and Urvasi
VII. Gilgames and ancient India
1. The jewel-tree and the ale-wife Siduri
2. The ship and the Great Flood
3. Gilgames and Istar
VIII. The cosmic man in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras
IX. Chess as a cosmic diagram
X. The development of the Brahmi and the Tamil script
XI. The swastika

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