Talk:Harappa

message: I agree with the above. In addition, there appears to be a significant inconsistency in the dates?:
"The city existed from about 3300 BCE..." followed by "Indus Valley civilization (known also as Harappan culture) appeared around 2500 B.C...."
82.133.100.35 01:11, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates 

message: I thought someone decoded it and discovered it was  Sanskrit? Arrow740 11:32, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Any reference? Szhaider 11:55, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Script 

message: Pre-1947 Indian tag is now much better without Ashoka Chakra. Now it's neutral and does not imply Hindu dominance. Szhaider 18:23, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indian Tag 

message: If the justification for the need for sanskrit script in this article is that this site was part of the Indus Valley Civilisation, then is there any proof for the existance of Sanskrit during the Indus Valley civ days? Parthi talk/contribs 10:37, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there any proof of urdu back in the indus valley days?--D-Boy 12:37, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The physical location of the site is in the modern state of Pakistan and hence following conventions, Urdu should be there, although I'm opposed to any vernacular script in the English language encyclopedia. The Sanskrit language did not exist during the Indus valley days. Atleast there is no proof for such an existance. I see no need for inserting Sanskrit here. Thanks Parthi talk/contribs 18:28, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

text: There is no policy about the scripts.  But if the urdu is there, then the sanskrit should be there as well.  pakistan didn't exsist back then.--D-Boy 09:10, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

text: first off, pakistan did not even exist.  second, neither did urdu.--D-Boy 08:33, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Most importantly Sanskrit didn't exist during the Indus Valley Civilisation either. Thanks Parthi talk/contribs 11:20, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

text: I don't see the need for Sanskrit in the first paragraph.  The IVC pre-dates Sanskrit.  The only reason why "Urdu" appears there is that Harrappa is in modern-day Pakistan and Urdu is the national language of Pakistan.  Harrappa has nothing to do exclusively with "Pakistani civilization." It was part of an Ancient civilization on the Indian subcontinent that is now a part of Pakistan.  Sanskrit did have a lot to do with the area of present-day Harrappa and indeed even regions farther west (e.g. the grammarian Pāṇini hailed from Gandhara), but that was much later in history when the IVC was long gone.  Fowler&fowler«Talk» 21:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I only script which is suitable for the article is the Indus script, which is of course undeciphered at the moment. Sanskrit and Urdu weren't spoken in the civilisation, so both should go. GizzaChat © 12:09, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Harappa is also a present-day city in Punjab, Pakistan (in addition to being a IVC site).  For that reason, it is valid for Urdu (or Punjabi written in Urdu script) to appear in its name, in the same way that Gujarati appears in the name of Lothal, but no Sanskrit does.  Lothal (Gujarātī: લોથલ, , ). Gujarati, of course, didn't exist at the time of IVC either.  Fowler&fowler«Talk» 13:47, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: PS. Incidentally, Mohenjo-daro has the Urdu and Sindhi scripts, but no Sanskrit.  Fowler&fowler«Talk» 13:56, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

text: It still find the modern languages pretty useless considering that none of these cities still exist. They have more reason to stay than Sanskrit, which probably flourished in these cities from around 1500 B.C. to 500 A.D. GizzaChat © 21:43, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sanskrit script in this article 

message: Everyone is arguing about scripts and saying it shouldn't be in Urdu or Sanskrit because IVC pre-dates both. However, Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro are not the actual names of the cities. the IVC script is untranslatable. We don't know what they called their own cities. The names Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro are MODERN names given to the sites or taken from nearby, still existing, villages/towns. As such, the page should certainly list the scripts as you're talking about names developed in Urdu, Sanskrit, Dravidian etc..207.237.208.153 (talk) 17:56, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Re: Scripts, You do realize these weren't the actual names of the cities?

message: But I just did!
http://harappanseals.piczo.com/?nsrc=none&g=42827102&pg=y&cr=2
76.191.206.99 (talk) 22:03, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Nobody Can Decipher Harappan?

message: It seems that at 18:06, on 27 October 2006 a large portion of text was added by user:203.128.22.67.   Upon examination, the text shows verbatim or minimally paraphrased "cut and paste"s from at least one website: Harappan Culture (from Library of Congress Country Studies).  It seems also that after that well-meaning editors tried to incorporate the text into various sections, some of which are irrelevant to the subject at hand.  These sections are:
*Socio-political system
* Religion, and
* Other influences
The sections belong properly to WP pages like Gandhara and Taxila, but not to Harappa.  I am therefore removing these sections.  I will also paraphrase two other sections and give the relevant web site as citation.  However, please in the future: no cut-and-past copyvios.  Fowler&fowler«Talk» 22:03, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyvios and Irrelevant Sections

message: I seem to remember there being a picture on this page.  Was there?  I would add one but I don't know how.--Onceonthisisland 14:14, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added a picture. Best, Obed Suhail (talk) 14:38, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture? 

message: Hi,
The  lead mention a modern town but there is hardly any mention of it in the article. Does the town still exist ? Does someone has demographic data, pictures, map (modern ones)?
The Culture and economy section refers to the  Harappean/IVC rather than the ancient city itself not to mention the modern town. Is it a suburb now or an agricultural township. Is there a mosque, a church or other temples now ?
Ghaag (talk) 06:26, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If you follow the coordinates in the article and look them up with Google Maps or something, you'll see that the modern town lies very close to the ancient site. I think this article should not cover the modern town, which should get its own article. Maybe Harappa (modern town)? --AlexanderVanLoon (talk) 12:24, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes at this time there is modren  agrucultural town i am visited many times. There is a A Mosque and a tomb at the site . 37.111.134.127 (talk) 11:06, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern Town ? 

message: Harappa site, Harappa  , Sahiwal, Pakistan
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 Not done: please be more specific about what needs to be changed.  Skomorokh, barbarian  12:42, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harappa Museum 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Harappa city information 2409:4042:E08:49B9:0:0:9409:3008 (talk) 12:53, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Apologies, but do you have a question or a suggestion for the article? Dumuzid (talk) 13:23, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  History Harappa city information 

message: This article, does not cover only what is related to Harappa, but includes a lot of information on the Harappan Civilisation on the whole. The Indus Valley Civilisation has the purpose of covering that information, and this article should cover Harappa in more detail. PrathuCoder (talk) 11:15, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Same as the Indus Valley Civilisation Article? 

message: It is obvious that the writings on the seals don't belong to the Indus-Sarasvati Civilisation but to an earlier (vedic) Era. This arrives from the fact that at least some of the Seals show religious scenes related to the Veda, while no temples and neither private nor public sides of worshipping were found in the cities of this civilisation. Among other things this fits the description in Srimad Bhagavatam 12.1.39 which describes this society as post-vedic. 2003:F5:F712:6800:5CD2:C7EF:310E:AF3C (talk) 20:34, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  About the ''writing system'' in the seals