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Manji ~ ಮಂಜಿ

Traditional boats on the Indus with their carved stern house and buge rudder are depicted on Indus seals. They carried goods up and down the Indus until very recently. But this ancient way of life is almost gone now. This picture was taken in 1996 ~ Michael Wood

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Dinesh said:

Sumerian ‘magilum (ga-gi-lum) is a word exclusively used for the boats of Meluhaa. In my opinion, it might well render Proto-Dravidian “manki’ (mangi), a form that can be reconstructed as the ancestor of South Dravidian ‘manci (manji), as an frication of ‘k / g due to the following ‘i’ may be assumed. The meaning of this latter word, attested in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Tulu, is as follows: “single-masted large cargo boat with a raised platform used in coasting trade, holding 10-40 tons – which matched remarkably well the contextual meaning of ‘magilum’ in the above Summerian passage. The above Proto-Dravidian reconstruction is supposrted by the following Sanskrit words recorded only by the twelfth-century Gujrati Lexicographer Hemachandra and some other lexica (including one for Hindi): mangini-, “ship, boat” “forepart of a ship,m mast.” ~ Page 217

The Roots of Hinduism
7 weeks ago

William Sutherland said:

Remarkable image!
7 weeks ago ( translate )
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