Asko Heikki Siegfried Parpola (born 12 July 1941, in Forssa) is a Finnish Indologist, current professor emeritus of Indology at the University of Helsinki...
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Parpola is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Asko Parpola (born 1941), Finnish Indologist and Sindhologist Simo Parpola (born...
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inventory. Linguists such as Iravatham Mahadevan, Kamil Zvelebil, and Asko Parpola have argued that the script had a relation to a Dravidian language. By...
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about the battle between good and evil. According to Finnish Indologist Asko Parpola, the word Asura was borrowed from Proto-Indo-Aryan into Proto-Uralic...
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foreigner", including the Avestan dahåka and dŋha, Latin dahi and Greek daai. Asko Parpola in 2015, has proposed that dasa is related to the ancient Iranian and...
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S2CID 14202246 Parpola, Asko (1994). Deciphering the Indus script. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43079-1. Parpola, Asko (2015), The...
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considered one of the most powerful weapons in the universe. According to Asko Parpola, the Sanskrit vajra- (वज्र-) and its Avestan cognate vazra- are possibly...
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symbolic simulation invented simply to round out sacrificial possibilities. Asko Parpola suggests that actual human sacrifices are described in Vedic texts but...
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interment), and even cremation. Contemporary scholars (most significantly Asko Parpola) continue to probe the roles of the IVC in the formation of Hinduism; others...
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wheels belong to carts, therefore are not from chariots. According to Asko Parpola these finds were ox-pulled carts, indicating that these burials are related...
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hypothesis has gained some plausibility and is endorsed by Kamil Zvelebil, Asko Parpola and Iravatham Mahadevan. A 2021 research paper published in Nature argues...
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but most scholars associate it with the Indus Valley Civilisation. Asko Parpola identifies Proto-Dravidians with the Harappan Culture and the Meluhhan...
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Upanishads is the religion of Sanskrit speaking upper caste. According to Asko Parpola (2015), the folk village Hinduism is surviving from pre-rig vedic Indo-Aryan...
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Hansman to postulate "Baluch" as a modification of Meluḫḫa and Baluḫḫu. Asko Parpola relates the name Meluḫḫa to Indo-Aryan words mleccha (Sanskrit) and milakkha/milakkhu...
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not possible to "account for this posture outside the yogic account". Asko Parpola states that other archaeological finds such as the early Elamite seals...
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Simo Kaarlo Antero Parpola (born 4 July 1943) is a Finnish Assyriologist specializing in the Neo-Assyrian Empire and Professor emeritus of Assyriology...
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Proto-Iranian sound change *s > h occurred between 850 and 600 BCE, according to Asko Parpola. Hence, the Rigvedic sapta sindhava (the land of seven rivers) became...
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PMID 31488661. Parpola, Asko (1994). Deciphering the Indus script. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43079-1. Parpola, Asko (2010), A Dravidian...
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archaeological sites of Indus Valley sites are yoni. According to the Indologist Asko Parpola, "it is true that Marshall's and Mackay's hypotheses of linga and yoni...
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and later ones in the Saurashtra (Sorath) area of present-day Gujarat. Asko Parpola identifies Proto-North Dravidians with the Indus Valley civilization...
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Rigveda is vague at best, generally estimated to roughly 1500 BCE. Both Asko Parpola (1988) and J. P. Mallory (1998) place the locus of the division of Indo-Aryan...
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Indus people, whose land is known from the Sumerian texts as Meluḫḫa. Asko Parpola has proposed a Dravidian derivation for "Meluḫḫa", as mel-akam ("high...
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between Uralic and Indo-European, ed. Carpelan et al., Helsinki (2001). Asko Parpola, 'The formation of the Aryan branch of Indo-European', in Blench and...
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pp. 28–66 Parpola, Asko (2015), The Roots of Hinduism. The Early Aryans and the Indus Civilization, Oxford University Press Parpola, Asko (2020). "Royal...
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advanced" than the Arya according to the textual evidence. According to Asko Parpola, the term dasa in ancient Indian texts has proto-Saka roots, where dasa...
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subject to many interpretations. However, some modern scholars such as Asko Parpola connect the Dasas and Dasyus to Iranian tribes Dahae and Dahyu and believe...
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simultaneous religious significance as yoni. According to the Indologist Asko Parpola, "it is true that Marshall's and Mackay's hypotheses of linga and yoni...
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like Dashly in Afghanistan, Tepe Hissar, and Tureng Tepe. According to Asko Parpola, the presence of black-red pottery also suggests links with Cemetery...
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step motifs. Punctates and circles were also used as decorative motifs. Asko Parpola suggests that the language of the Botai culture cannot be conclusively...
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Balts along the river Oka. In regards to the same geographical location, Asko Parpola, in a 2013 article, suggested that the Baltic presence in this area,...
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