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How Did the Rigwedas Come to Be Written?

The native language of the aristocracy and the royalty of the mithani was late vedi sanscrit. So that's so the script that was used furthe in this kingdom was the cuniform script. The first attempts to decipher the skill the uniform script happened in the 17 hundreds, in the eighteenth century. And slowly, slowly, by comparing it with other other inscriptions, and by hypothesising that it would sound like sanscrit, they were able to slowly crack the script.

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