Asko Heikki Siegfried Parpola (born 12 July 1941, in Forssa) is a Finnish Indologist, current professor emeritus of Indology at the University of Helsinki...

inventory. Linguists such as Iravatham Mahadevan, Kamil Zvelebil, and Asko Parpola have argued that the script had a relation to a Dravidian language. By...

Parpola is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Asko Parpola (born 1941), Finnish Indologist and Sindhologist Simo Parpola (born...

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...

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...

S2CID 14202246 Parpola, Asko (1994). Deciphering the Indus script. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43079-1. Parpola, Asko (2015), The...

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...

symbolic simulation invented simply to round out sacrificial possibilities. Asko Parpola suggests that actual human sacrifices are described in Vedic texts but...

interment), and even cremation. Contemporary scholars (most significantly Asko Parpola) continue to probe the roles of the IVC in the formation of Hinduism; others...

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...

hypothesis has gained some plausibility and is endorsed by Kamil Zvelebil, Asko Parpola and Iravatham Mahadevan. A 2021 research paper published in Nature argues...

but most scholars associate it with the Indus Valley Civilisation. Asko Parpola identifies Proto-Dravidians with the Harappan Culture and the Meluhhan...

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...

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...

Simo Kaarlo Antero Parpola (born 4 July 1943) is a Finnish Assyriologist specializing in the Neo-Assyrian Empire and Professor emeritus of Assyriology...

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...

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...

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...

not possible to "account for this posture outside the yogic account". Asko Parpola states that other archaeological finds such as the early Elamite seals...

and later ones in the Saurashtra (Sorath) area of present-day Gujarat. Asko Parpola identifies Proto-North Dravidians with the Indus Valley civilization...

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...

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...

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...

errors in predicting time and calendar in the other region. According to Asko Parpola, the Jyotisha and luni-solar calendar discoveries in ancient India, and...

pp. 28–66 Parpola, Asko (2015), The Roots of Hinduism. The Early Aryans and the Indus Civilization, Oxford University Press Parpola, Asko (2020). "Royal...

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...

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...

like Dashly in Afghanistan, Tepe Hissar, and Tureng Tepe. According to Asko Parpola, the presence of black-red pottery also suggests links with Cemetery...

step motifs. Punctates and circles were also used as decorative motifs. Asko Parpola suggests that the language of the Botai culture cannot be conclusively...

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...