Current Studies on the Indus Civilization : Vol. IX

Contents: Preface. 1. Crocodile in the Indus civilization and later South Asian traditions/Asko Parpola. 2. On the Asiatic wild asses and their vernacular names/Asko Parpola and Juha Janhunen. 3. The Harappan unicorn in Eurasian and South Asian perspectives/Asko Parpola. 4. Unicorn Mammoth whale: mythological and etymological connections of zoonyms in North and East Asia/Juha Janhunen. 5. The Harappa culture in North Gujarat: a regional paradigm/P. Ajithprasad and V.H. Sonawane.

The book contains papers concerning several animals, i.e. crocodile ass and unicorn written by the Finnish eminent scholar on Indus script, Professor Asko Parpola and his colleague in Helsinki University, Professor Juha Janhunen who has specialized on the Mongolic Tugusic and Turkic languages widely spoken in Eurasia. These animals motifs are found not only in the Indus seals but also in the several mythological literatures from Eurasia, including India.

Another contributor is Professor Ajithprasad of Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, Gujarat. His paper deals with issues related to the early Chalcolithic regional tradition of North Gujarat in Western India. (jacket)