Svoboda | Graniru | BBC Russia | Golosameriki | Facebook

To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

How to transfigure the Wikipedia

Would you like Wikipedia to always look as professional and up-to-date? We have created a browser extension. It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology.

Try it — you can delete it anytime.

Install in 5 seconds
4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
Great Wikipedia has got greater.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

Shikaripura Ranganatha Rao

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Shikaripura Ranganatha Rao
Born
Shikaripura Ranganatha Rao

(1922-07-01)1 July 1922
Anandapuram, Sagar taluk, Shimoga district, erstwhile Mysore State (now Karnataka)
Died3 January 2013(2013-01-03) (aged 90)
NationalityIndian
OccupationArchaeologist

Shikaripura Ranganatha Rao (1 July 1922 – 3 January 2013), commonly known as Dr. S. R. Rao, was an Indian archaeologist who led teams credited with discoveries of a number of Harappan sites, including the port city Lothal and Bet Dwarka in Gujarat.

YouTube Encyclopedic

  • 1/1
    Views:
    85 398
  • DHARWAD JATTI .KUSTI, RAFHIKA HOLI&MADAN HARIYANA,

Transcription

Biography and career

Rao was born into a Madhwa Brahmin family on 1 July 1922. He completed his education from Mysore University.[1]

Indus script decipherment

While mainstream scholarship is generally in agreement with Rao's approach of comparison, the details of his decipherment have not been accepted, and the script is still generally considered undeciphered. John E. Mitchiner, after dismissing some more fanciful attempts at decipherment, mentions that "a more soundly-based but still greatly subjective and unconvincing attempt to discern an Indo-European basis in the script has been that of Rao".[2]

In a 2002 interview with The Hindu, Rao asserted his faith in his decipherment, saying that "Recently we have confirmed that it is definitely an Indo-Aryan language and deciphered. Prof. W. W. De Grummond of Florida State University has written in his article that I have already deciphered it."[3]

Identification of Dwarka

At Kushasthali (Bet Dwarka), a strip of sand and stone situated 30 km (19 mi) north of town of Dwarka, Rao and his team found a wall (560 metres long) visible on the shore itself. Dating of pottery found here gave a date of 1528 BCE based on thermoluminescence dating[4][5]

Rao asserts that the unearthed remains at Dwarka were the historical city that was home to Krishna, believed to be the eighth Avatar of Vishnu.[4]

Publications

  • Lothal and the Indus Civilisation, Bombay: Asia Publishing House, ISBN 0-210-22278-6 (1973)
  • Lothal: A Harappan Port Town (1955 - 1962), Vols. I and II, Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India, no.78, New Delhi, ASIN: B0006E4EAC (1979 and 1985)
  • Lothal, New Delhi: the Director General, Archaeological Survey of India (1985)
  • Dawn and Devolution of the Indus Civilization, ISBN 81-85179-74-3, Delhi: Aditya Prakashan (1991)
  • New Trends in Indian Art and Archaeology: S.R. Rao's 70th Birthday Felicitation Volumes, edited by B.U. Nayak and N.C. Ghosh, 2 vols. (1992)
  • New Frontiers of Archaeology, Bombay: Popular Prakashan, ISBN 81-7154-689-7 (1994)
  • The Lost City of Dvaraka, National Institute of Oceanography, ISBN 81-86471-48-0 (1999)
  • Marine Archaeology in India, Delhi: Publications Division, ISBN 81-230-0785-X (2001)

References

  1. ^ Baiderbettu Upendra Nayak; N. C. Ghosh (1992). New Trends in Indian Art and Archaeology S.R. Rao's 70th Birthday Felicitation Volume · Volume 1. Aditya Prakashan. p. XXI. Shikaripur Ranganatha Rao (S. R. Rao) was born on 1st July, 1920 at Anandapuram in Sagar taluk of Shimoga district in the erstwhile Mysore (now Karnataka) state. His father Shikaripur Hucha Rao, a Madhwa Brahmin, was well educated upto first year in Arts and wanted...
  2. ^ John E. Mitchiner (1978), Studies in the Indus Valley Inscriptions, Oxford & IBH, p. 5
  3. ^ Rao refers to a statement by W. W. De Grummond, of the Department of Classics, Florida State University, that "Dr. Rao's decipherment of the Indus script has met with considerable acceptance and will serve now as a basis for further and continuing study of the language of the ancient Indus Valley civilization." in "Linguistic Affinities of Old Indo-Aryan with Classical Greek and Latin", B.U. Nayak, N.C. Ghosh (eds.) New Trends in Indian Art and Archaeology: S.R. Rao's 70th birthday felicitation volume, Aditya Prakashan (1992), pp. 133-139. ISBN 81-85689-12-1
  4. ^ a b S.R.Rao, The Lost City of Dvaraka. National Institute of Oceanography 1999
  5. ^ K.H. Vora et al, "Cultural sequence of Bet Dwarka island based on thermoluminescence dating" 2002 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24106004?seq=1

External links

Wikiquote has quotations related to Shikaripura Ranganatha Rao.
This page was last edited on 17 January 2024, at 04:10
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.
Contact WIKI 2
Introduction
Terms of Service
Privacy Policy