Asko Parpola, professor of Indology and South Asian Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland has specialized on the Indus script. Indology refers to study of India. ... The University of Helsinki is a university located in Helsinki, Finland. ... The term Indus script refers to short strings of symbols associated with the Harappan civilization of ancient India, dating to circa 2600–1900 BC. They are most commonly associated with flat, rectangular stone tablets called seals, but they are also found on at least a dozen other materials. ...
During the nineteenth century Western scholars identified the Dasa with dark-skinned Dravidian speaking peoples, but more recent scholars, notably AskoParpola, have claimed that they were fellow Indo-Europeans, who initially rejected Aryan religious practices but were later merged with them.
Sethna (1992) writes, referring to a comment by Richard Hartz, that "there is no need to follow Parpola in assuming a further unexpressed word meaning "people" in the middle of the compound krsnayonih", and the better known translation by Griffith, i.e.
Parpola, Asko: 1988, The Coming of the Aryans to Iran and India and the Cultural and Ethnic Identity of the Dasas; The problem of the Aryans and the Soma.
AskoParpola confirms: "It seems significant that painted Mature Harappan potsherds from Amri III A and C combine the motifs of 'fish' and 'star'.
AskoParpola and his followers cannot help it that no Harappan Rosetta stone is available, but that fact nonetheless makes the task they have set themselves extra difficult.
AskoParpola dismisses the Indo-Aryan Harappa school curtly: "It is now common knowledge that Brahmi (first attested in Asoka's edicts c.250 BC) is derived from the Semitic consonantal alphabet, which in turn is derived from Egyptian hieroglyphics.
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