The Story of Indian Scripts - Part 2 | The potshard inscriptions of Keeladi

Greetings from China. Indian scripts are so fascinating and ancient; their history is unparalleled. Loved both videos!

After over the past 8 to 10 years watching these types of documentaries on Indian history, I found your presentation very well prepared and non-ideological. It discussed the topics with clarity and logic, without a need to descend into hyperbole or nationalistic fervor. I wish that other Indian historical producers would follow your very clearly enunciated style and projection of the facts as opposed to opinions. It certainly adds credibility unlike some others who even though may had very important things to say, waffled on & left it up to the watcher/listener to 'fill in the gaps'. Extremely well done, in my opinion! Like some of the other commentaries below, I look forward to presentations. I also suggest that you extend your research to Sri Lanka because I am absolutely certain that South Indian history extends into this area as well. Perhaps a joint research project with Sri Lankan counterparts may lead to discoveries not even envisaged about the Tamils & their ancient history? Congratulations to both presenters.

Keezhadi has already been dated to 800 BC now. We need more excavations to be conducted in Vaigai and Porunai basin.

As tamilian, we still have the habit that scratching name on pot or vessels before giving presentation or gift to our neighbors. Just difference between old & present is clay pot & nowadays metal vessels. Putting name habit on vessel still continues. 100% sure vessels must have name that who presented it, then nothing will not be anymore.

I think korkai dated to 800BC also obtained potsherd bearing name "athan" in tamil brahmi. Korkai also older capital of pandiyas before keeladi(madurai). In srilanka there is seal called Anaikoddai seal dated to iron age(1000BC-300Bc) bear both megalithic graffiti and tamil brahmi popularly know as monolingual biscript.

And Kannada is the most underrated Language by archaeologist But Kannada is the only language in the world that we reads like what it is written and we writes like what it is read 💛❤️

Given that Sanskrit didn't fall from the sky and belongs to the Indo-European family of languages, and all the Indo-European languages outside India adopted the Phoenician alphabet, it is imperative that Sanskrit either took the same script or found an alternative script that originated in the Indian subcontinent, i.e., the script used for Tamil.

I really like the neutral tone of the story. Great work. The politics around the oldness of languages is based on educated guesses of Historians. The end of the video sums it up really well, that such theories are based on evidence which might not be self sufficient.

Appreciate the channel for the clear presentation of the facts without distortions. Such presentations are much needed for Indian society to who we are!

Tamil Brahmi is the oldest known script in out country!!!! Even older than Brahmi script! --- That's an eye-opener and every Indian should know about this! WOW! BLOWN AWAY...

Potsherds with brahmi inscriptions discovered in Anuradhapura were dated to sixth to early fourth century BCE. There, Brahmi script is used to write in a Prakrit. This shows that the brahmi script was common in the South few centuries before the Mauryan empire.

The stories are getting really interesting.

Only the Tamizhi Script found in the upper layer is dated to be 600 BC. The Grafitti and Grafitti + Tamizhi found in the lower layers were not at all dated. Considering that artifacts in the lower layer could be 300-400 years easily older than the upper layer. We can easily see that the Grafitti is older than 1000BC. Unlike North, the excavations in Tamil Nadu are not funded properly and are not followed up properly. Also the number of scripts found in North and South is so different. In south atleast 800-1000 inscriptions are found in just 3 excavations done where as after so many excavations of North only Brahmi which is from that 7 places have been found. The Evidence is clear but the political interventions are not allowing the facts to come up.

U guys are very under rated

The history of Tamizh people and the Tamizh language in the deep south of India is so so fascinating, its like forgotten roots linking somewhere... but where and how? Are we all linked to the Indus Valley civilisation? Did some kind of god or being came down to earth on this part of the world and created a civilisation? Just so fascinating. In years when AI has achieved super intelligence, all this will be deciphered.

As I Tamilian I Salute ur Great Work

Super nicely presented . Great job. Nice job. wonderful presentation.

I step towards deciphering IVC script ❤️ So excited 🙂

K. Amarnath Ramakrishna, who excavated Keezhadi and led the first two seasons of excavations between 2014 and 2016, submitted his 982-page report to ASI Director General V. Vidyavathi recently. The report has 12 chapters explaining the historical background and objectives of the excavation. Based on the results of stratigraphy of the cultural deposits found in the first two phases, the period of the Sangam era archaeological site has been placed between 8th century BCE to 3rd century CE. Sangam age was believed to be between 300 BCE to 300 CE. The new report repositions the Sangam age between 800 BCE and 300 CE.

mr kamalakara and sara mohan are intelligent, articulate and easy on the eye. very informative films.