Asko Parpola

Asko Parpola's Degrees

PhD Indology University of Helsinki
Masters Oriental Studies University of Helsinki

Why Is Asko Parpola Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Asko Parpola 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. Biography 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.

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Asko Parpola's Published Works

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Published Works

Deciphering the Indus script (1996) (156)
The Meluhha Village: Evidence of Acculturation of Harappan Traders in Late Third Millennium Mesopotamia? (1977) (69)
The Roots of Hinduism: The Early Aryans and the Indus Civilization (2015) (42)
The Coming of the Aryans to Iran and India and the Cultural and Ethnic identity of the Dāsas (1988) (42)
Guhlu and guggulu (1996) (30)
The Indus script: A challenging puzzle (1986) (25)
Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions, Vol. 2: Collections in Pakistan (1993) (24)
Pre-Proto-Iranians of Afghanistan as initiators of Śakta Tantrism: On the Scythian/Sāka affiliation of the Dāsas, Nuristanis and Magadhans (2002) (21)
The Nasatyas, the chariot and Proto-Aryan religion (2005) (19)
Early contacts between Uralic and Indo-European : linguistic and archaeological considerations : papers presented at an international symposium held at the Tvärminne Research Station of the University of Helsinki, 8-10 January, 1999 (2001) (18)
On the Relationship of the Sumerian toponym Meluḫḫa and Sanskrit mleccha (2015) (15)
New material, untraced objects, and collections outside India and Pakistan (2010) (12)
Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions. 1. Collections in India (1987) (12)
A METHOD TO CLASSIFY CHARACTERS OF UNKNOWN ANCIENT SCRIPTS (1970) (11)
High-tin bronze bowl making in Kerala, South India, and its archaeological implications (1993) (10)
Mīmāṃsā and Vedānta : interaction and continuity (2007) (10)
From the dialects of Old Indo-Aryan to Proto-Indo-Aryan and Proto-Iranian (2002) (9)
Proto-Indo-European speakers of the Late Tripolye culture as the inventors of wheeled vehicles: Linguistic and archaeological considerations of the PIE homeland problem (2008) (9)
Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions, 1: Collections in India (1989) (8)
Documentation and duplicates of the texts in the Indus script (1980) (6)
Materials for the study of the Indus script (1973) (6)
On the symbol concept of the Vedic ritualists (1979) (6)
The Sky-Garment. A Study of the Harappan Religion and Its Relation to the Mesopotamian and Later Indian Religions (1985) (6)
The problem of Samoyed origins in the light of archaeology: On the formation and dispersal of East Uralic (Proto-Ugro-Samoyedic) (2012) (5)
Mesopotamia and the Indus: the evidence of the seals (2013) (5)
The Dasas of the Rgveda as Proto-Sakas of the Yaz I -related cultures: With a revised model for the protohistory of Indo-Iranian speakers (2012) (5)
Changing patterns of family and kinship in South Asia : proceedings of an international symposium on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of India's independence held at the University of Helsinki 6 May 1998 (1998) (5)
Collections in India (1987) (4)
15. The problem of the Aryans and the Soma: Textual-linguistic and archaeological evidence (1995) (4)
Vāc as a Goddess of Victory in the Veda and her relation to Durgā (2000) (4)
On the formation of the Mīmāmsā and the problems concerning Jaimini. With particular reference to the teacher quotations and the Vedic schools. II (1994) (4)
'Hind Leg' + 'Fish': Towards Further Understanding of the Indus Script* (2009) (3)
Beginnings of Indian and Chinese Calendrical Astronomy (2014) (3)
The cultural counterparts to Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Aryan: Matching the dispersal and contact patterns in the linguistic and archaeological record (2005) (3)
Crocodile in the Indus Civilization and later South Asian tradition (2011) (3)
South Asian Religion and Society (1986) (3)
COMPUTER TECHNIQUES IN THE STUDY OF THE INDUS SCRIPT (1971) (3)
Tasks, Methods and Results in the Study of the Indus Script (1975) (3)
The Mohenjo-daro axe-adze: A vestige of Aryan immigrations to Central and South Asia? (2015) (3)
Formation of the Indo-European and Uralic language families in the light of archaeology: Revised and integrated 'total' correlations (2013) (3)
Deciphering the Indus script: a summary report (1993) (3)
Progress in the decipherment of the proto-Dravidian Indus script (1969) (3)
Finnish vatsa ~ Sanskrit vatsá and the formation of Indo-Iranian and Uralic languages (2017) (2)
Sāvitrī and Resurrection: The Ideal of devoted wife, her forehead mark, Satī, and human sacrifice in Epic-Purāṇic, Vedic, Harappan-Dravidian and Near Eastern perspectives (2014) (2)
Search for a common homeland: Review of The quest for the origins of Vedic culture: The Indo-Aryan migration debate, by Edwin Bryant, New York: OUP, 2001 (2002) (2)
South Asian archaeology, 1993 : proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists held in Helsinki University 5-9 July 1993 (1994) (2)
Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions: 3.2 Shahr-i Sokhta; Mundigak; Mehrgarh, Nausharo, Sibri, Dauda-damb; Chanhudaro; Ahar, Balathal, Gilund; Kalibangan; Rojdi (2019) (2)
IIANAAIH AND SITA: ON THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE SANSKRIT EPICS (2008) (2)
A Dravidian solution to the Indus script problem: Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi Classical Tamil Research Endowment Lecture (2010) (2)
On the Jaiminīya and Vādhūla Traditions of South India and the Pāṇḍu/Pāṇḍava Problem (1984) (2)
IIan[delta]aih and Sita: On the Historical Background of the Sanskrit Epics (2002) (2)
Indus Civilization —1750 BCE (2012) (1)
The Three Ways of Chanting in a Sacrificial Laud: Chapter two of Jaimini- Paryadhyāya (Jaiminīya-Śrautasūtra III) with Bhavatrāta’s commentary: Sanskrit text with an annotated English translation (2011) (1)
Fertility Cults in Folk Religion (2015) (1)
On the Primary Meaning and Etymology of the Sacred Syllable ōm (2015) (1)
Interpreting the Rigveda: Comments on Karen Thomson's approach (2009) (1)
The Śrautasūtras of Lāṭyāyana and Drāhyāyaṇa and Their Commentaries@@@The Srautasutras of Latyayana and Drahyayana and Their Commentaries (1969) (1)
The Indus Civilization (2015) (1)
Dravidian and the Indus script : On the interpretation of some pivotal signs (1997) (1)
Proto-Indo-European speakers of the Late Tripolye culture as the inventors of wheeled vehicles: Linguistic and archaeological considerations (2011) (1)
The Literature and Study of the Jaiminīya Sāmaveda in Retrospect and Prospect (2015) (1)
The Early Aryans (2015) (1)
Collections in Pakistan (1991) (1)
Vidyarnavavandanam Essays in Honour of Asko Parpola (2003) (1)
The Śrautasūtras of Lāṭyāyana and Drāhyāyaṇa and Their Commentaries. Vol. I: 2. The agniṣṭoma (LŚS I-II, DŚS I-VI)@@@The Srautasutras of Latyayana and Drahyayana and Their Commentaries. Vol. I: 2. The agnistoma (LSS I-II, DSS I-VI) (1971) (1)
Unicorn Bull and Victory Parade (2018) (1)
Study of the Indus Script 1) (2005) (1)
Royal "Chariot" Burials of Sanauli near Delhi and Archaeological Correlates of Prehistoric Indo-Iranian Languages (2020) (1)
Beginnings of Indian Astronomy with Reference to a Parallel Development in China (2013) (1)
The Indus Religion and the Indus Script (2015) (0)
Comments on the incised stone axe found in Tamil Nadu in 2006 and the claim that it contains an inscription in the classical Indus script (2007) (0)
New Indus Civilization inscription found (2016) (0)
Retrospect and Prospect (2015) (0)
Defining “Hindu” and “Hinduism” (2015) (0)
The Encounter of Religions in India 2000-1000 BC: Methods of Analysis (2012) (0)
The Mirror in Vedic India: Its Ancient Use and Its Present Relevance in Dating Texts (2019) (0)
Indo-European Linguistics (2015) (0)
Astronomy, Time-Reckoning, and Cosmology (2015) (0)
The Aśvins as Funerary Gods (2015) (0)
The Atharvaveda and the Vrātyas (2015) (0)
Sanskrit kaparda (braided hair): Yet another Harappan symbol of royalty surviving in Vedic "Vrātya rituals" (2015) (0)
Asko Parpola on the Roots of Hinduism (2016) (0)
Early Indo-Iranians on the Eurasian Steppes (2015) (0)
Comments on "Indigenus Indo-Aryans and the Rigveda" (2002) (0)
Bronze Age Bactria and Indian Religion (2014) (0)
Rudra: 'Red' and 'cry' in the name of the young god of fire, rising sun, and war (2016) (0)
The incised Axe from Tamil Nadu said to be inscribed in the Classical Indus Script (2009) (0)
Harappan Religion in Relation to West and South Asia (2015) (0)
On Ancient Indian history: What do we know and how? By Rajesh Kochhar (2019) (0)
The decipherment of the Sāmavedic notation of the Jaiminīyas (1988) (0)
Religion in the Indus Script (2015) (0)
The BMAC of Central Asia and the Mitanni of Syria (2015) (0)
Harry Halén – A Biographical sketch (2014) (0)
New Etymologies for Some Finnish Words (2010) (0)
The Rigvedic Indo-Aryans and the Dāsas (2015) (0)
Manuscripts of Jaiminiya Samaveda traced and photographed in 2002-2006 (2016) (0)
The Megalithic Culture and the Great Epics (2015) (0)
DRAVIDIAN AND THE INDUS SCRIPT: (2014) (0)
The Language of the Indus Civilization (2015) (0)
Iconographic evidence of Mesopotamian influence on Harappan ideology and its survival in the royal rites of the Veda and Hinduism (2020) (0)
Pierre Rolland (1940–1974) (2015) (0)
Location of the Uralic proto-language in the Kama River Valley and the Uralic speakers' Expansion east and west with the 'Sejma-Turbino transcultural phenomenon’ 2200-1900 BC (2022) (0)
Royal Symbols from West Asia (2015) (0)
Prehistory of Indo-Aryan Language and Religion (2015) (0)
Proto-Indo-European Homelands (2015) (0)
Vedic prākāśá- = prāvepá-: 'metal mirror', 'ear-drop' — or rather 'whip'? (2018) (0)
Interpreting the Indus Script -- II (2015) (0)
Dilmun, Magan, and Meluhha (2015) (0)
The Aśvins and Mitra-Varuṇa (2015) (0)
Aalto, Pentti (1917–1998) (2006) (0)
Sāmaveda, the Indus Script and Aryan Prehistory: The Main Targets in My Study of Indian Culture (2017) (0)
The hemp cultivators of Uttarakhand and social complexity ( with a special reference to the Rathis of Garhwal ) 1 (2019) (0)
All our past tenses: Review of Historical Linguistics: An introduction, by Lyle Campbell, 2nd ed., Edinburgh University Press, 2004 (2004) (0)
R. Sivalingam (1935-2019) in memoriam (2019) (0)
Modern Indian Responses to Religious Pluralism . Edited by Harold G. Coward. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. xii, 340 pp. $16.95 (paper). (1989) (0)
In memoriam: Iravatham Mahadevan (Manachanallur 30 Jan 1930 - Chennai 25 Nov 2018) (2019) (0)
On Ancient Indian history: What do we know and how? By Rajesh Kochhar (2019) (0)
Early Iranians and “Left-Hand” Tantrism (2015) (0)
The Goddess and the Buffalo (2015) (0)
Publications of the Great Indologist Fr. Albrecht Weber (2014) (0)
Sanskrit māṇava(ka)- '(Vedic) Student, Pupil, (Brahmin) Boy' and the Religious Fast in Ancient India (2015) (0)

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University of Helsinki