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The Brick symbol gives a very good insight into analysis on the
development of Indus script. The symbol iSTika does not
merely mean brick alone, it stands for a whole concept, and it
stands for the word Istikrta ceremony. First, we can analyse
the inscription where the full name of the ceremony appears.
Figure 1
(Pictures courtesy and acknowledgements Book of Sue Sullivan) (Sullivan, The Indus Script Dictionary, 2011)
symbols
Identificatio brick
n of object
Sanskrit
name
iSTikA
Decoratio
n of
Kavari
Kavari
Syllable
sound
isti
Ka
Ra
symb
ol
ra
Number
three
Quotatio wheel
n mark
tra
bagha
chakra
ra
ta
bagha
Indra
Figure 2
Symbols
Identification of
object
Bric
k
Decoration of
Kavari
Sanskrit name
iSTik Kavari
A
Syllable sound
isti
Ka
Full stop
mark
bow
kavari
(.)
dhanush
Kavari
(.)
dhanud
har
ka
The inscription in figure -2 could be read as Istika Dhanudharka. Meaning of the words is Istikrta ceremony for Dhanudhar.
Dhanudhar most probably indicates God Rudra. However, god
Rudras name does not appear in the Indus inscriptions so far.
Most probably the Indus name for Rudra was Kronos
(Jeyakumar.R., 2012)
Figure 3
symbols
Identification of object
brick
Decoration of Kavari
Sanskrit name
iSTikA
Kavari
Syllable sound
isti
Ka
Figure 4