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Asko Parpola was born on 12 July, 1941 in Forssa, Finland, is a Finnish Indologist (born 1941). Discover Asko Parpola's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

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Occupation Indologist
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 12 July, 1941
Birthday 12 July
Birthplace Forssa, Finland
Nationality Finland

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1941

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

He specializes in Sindhology, specifically the study of the Indus script.

Parpola is a brother of the Akkadian language epigrapher Simo Parpola.

He is married to Marjatta Parpola, who has authored a study on the traditions of Kerala's Nambudiri Brahmins.

Parpola's research and teaching interests fall within the following topics:

Two significant contributions of Parpola, to the field of decipherment of the Indus script, are the creation of the now universally used classification of Indus valley seals, and the proposed, and much-debated, decipherment of the language of the script.

According to Parpola the Indus script and Harappan language are "most likely to have belonged to the Dravidian family".

1960

Parpola led a Finnish team in the 1960s–80s that vied with Knorozov's Soviet team in investigating the inscriptions using computer analysis.

Based on a proto-Dravidian assumption, they proposed readings of many signs, some agreeing with the suggested readings of Heras and Knorozov (such as equating the "fish" sign with the Dravidian word for fish "min") but disagreeing on several other readings.

1990

He is an honorary member of the American Oriental Society and, since 1990, a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.

1994

A comprehensive description of Parpola's work until 1994 is given in his book Deciphering the Indus Script. He states in his book that the Brahui people of Pakistan are remnants of the Harappan culture.

Parpola's long journal article The Coming of the Aryans is widely cited by historians and scholars of Indo-European Studies.

Colin Renfrew, who has reviewed the article, called it a "richly annotated and well-illustrated essay," which brings together a number of different lines of arguments, including literary and archaeological.

It contains rich and interesting insights into a variety of topics, including the "amalgamation of the Aryan and Dasa religions," and the Nuristani language.

However, Renfrew found Parpola's methodology wanting because, to him, it did not clearly lay out the structure of the argument and the underlying assumptions.

He listed the underlying assumptions as the one that the Aryans considered themselves immigrants in the lands described in their texts and the one that the Dasas were themselves immigration populations.

He considered both these propositions to be doubtful.

2010

Asko Parpola received the Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi Classical Tamil Award for 2009 on June 23, 2010 at the World Classical Tamil Conference at Coimbatore.

2015

In 2015, he was awarded India's Presidential Award of Certificate of Honour in Sanskrit.