This is the presentation i used at the World Classical Tamil Conference held in Coimbatore, India. My paper was presented on June 25, 2010 at Kapilar Hall in the 12 noon-1:30 pm slot. Asko Parpola, Ramaswamy and Srinivasan were the other 3 presenters. Iravatham Mahadevan was the session chairman.

1. Bangle Tradition in The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) Symbology By Sukumar Rajagopal, Associate, Indus Research Center, Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai Presented at World Classical Tamil Conference, Coimbatore,India, June 25, 2010 at Kapilan Arangam, 12 PM – 1:30 PM For detailed references please review paper published in the conference proceedings.

3. Indus Artifacts depicting Bangles Dancing Girl, shown wearing row bangles in left arm

4. Indus Artifacts depicting Bangles Fig Tree Worship Seal, All the women wearing row bangles on both arms

5. Indus Artifacts depicting Bangles Contest for a Girl’s Hand Seal, shows tiger goddess wearing bangles in both arms, but the Bride wears bangles in only one arm. Presence of both in the same seal rules out Scribal error.

7. Indus signs depicting Double Symbolic Convention For each of the above signs, there are ones which show implements in only one arm/leg like the one below which also has a double equivalent

10. Indus Seafaring Tradition One on the left is a traditional Indus boat and the one on the right has been identified as a double-decked boat. Is it possible the people of higher status rode this boat?

16. Thank you I am grateful to Iravatham Mahadevan, Priya Raju, Sridhar K. Narayanan, Subramanian Chandrasekhar, Sundar G, K. Ananthalakshmi and Manikanda Pisharody for reviewing the earlier drafts of this paper and/or providing helpful tips, without necessarily agreeing with everything stated in this paper. Special thanks to GC Suresh Babu of the Indus Research Center, RMRL for the images.