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...

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...

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

suggest it was invented simply to round out sacrificial possibilities. Asko Parpola suggests actual human sacrifices are described in Vedic texts, while...

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

symbolic and ritual tool is mainly found in Tantric Buddhism. According to Asko Parpola, the Sanskrit vajra- (वज्र-) and its Avestan cognate vazra- are possibly...

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...

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

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

noting that solid wheels belong to carts, not chariots. According to Asko Parpola these finds were ox-pulled carts, indicating that these burials are related...

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...

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...

currently project them to might have meant. According to the Indologist Asko Parpola, "it is true that Marshall's and Mackay's hypotheses of linga and yoni...

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...

to the Chust culture, no tombs from the Yaz culture have been found. Asko Parpola and Fred Hiebert argued that these cultures seemingly derived from the...

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...

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...

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

director Asko Künnap (born 1971), Estonian poet, artist, graphic designer and marketer Asko Paade (born 1984), Estonian basketball player Asko Parpola (born...

several Finnish Indologists, including Asko Parpola. In 1969, his team led by his pupil and successor Parpola, announced its interpretation of the script...

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...

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

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

into Uralic (see below for examples). The linguists Christian Carpelan, Asko Parpola and Petteri Koskikallio suggest that early Indo-European and Uralic stand...

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...

Asko Parpola, Masato Fujii and Stanley Insler. Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference: 97–126 (Helsinki, Finland, 13–18 July, 2003), Eds. Asko Parpola...