English Translation of “Bharathiya Samskruthi” (2019) | Page 63
In the Harappan funeral pottery we find the figures of the Crow, Dog, Bull, Peacock and a river in flood. The most common practise of disposing the dead was through cremation. Most of the funeral rites of passage of Harappan culture are mentioned in Rigveda (X – 1 – 6 – 6). So Harappan culture is an advanced version of Aryan culture6.
The Proto-Indic Civilisation extended over a vast area of Indian Sub-Continent. The Indus Civilisation was bigger than Egypt, Sumerian and Assyrian Civilisations. The size of the burnt bricks used in Indus cities conform to the size (11.75” x 5.25” x 75; 11.55” x 7.75”, 10.5” x 5.5 x 7.5”).
The inside walls of the houses are plastered with mortar. Most of the houses had one front entrance leading to a courtyard and rooms. Some of the houses had first and second floors with as many as 25 rooms. The houses had windows opening to the street. They used to reinforce roofs with strong wooden beams.
They were using different kinds of furniture inside the house, such as chairs, cots, foot stool, divans and tables. Inside the houses and also in the streets, covered drains with grates to collect solid waste at some points have been noticed. They had some kind of flush toilets. There were water wells inside the houses and also in the streets with wooden lids to cover the mouth of the wells. The town officials paid a lot of attention to hygiene and cleanliness. In the houses the dwellers used wood and charcoal fires to cook food and heat water for bathing purposes. They had separate prayer rooms (Pooja rooms) for worshipping of Gods and Goddesses. During hot summer months they slept at night-time on roof tops.
___________________________ Footnotes 6. S. Srikantha Sastri, Proto Indic Religion.
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