Result of lifetime's devotion, Linguistic Archaeology of Indus and Nepaalese Civilizations is the first innovative landmark publication in this world. This study is an empirical, up-to-date archaclinguistic study of the ethnographic history as well as the history of the civilizations of this Subcontinent and conforms that the aboriginal Sherpas of Austric (Austroloid) origin of the Indian Subcontinent were the true original inhabitants of the Subcontinent and they were the builders of Indus and Nepalese civilizations but not the Aryans or the Dravidians or the Mongols. This study clarifies that the Sherpas, in ancient times, were introduced with different types of epithets like the Šaraba, Hindu, Khambu and Kirata, Bhooe and Serpa. Among these epithets, the Saraba epithet is the original and the admirable epithet while Bhode and the Serpa are the epithets of contempt. In this study, archaeolinguistic analysis of some Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali and Sherpa words found in the literary and archaeological sources clarifies that the pastoral dynasties including the Gopalas, Mahisapalas, Nemuni, Bhumagata, Chandragupta, Chandragupta's mother Mura, Asoka, Amsuvarman, Bhogavarmmagomi, the Buddhas, Krisna, Phallic god Pasupati (Siva) and the modern Sakyas and Vajracaryas also called Vannas were originally the Sherpas. Similarly, the Lumbini Pillar Inscription informs us that Asoka had said that the custom of the sacrifice running from the Vedic time must be cut off and adopted Eightfold Path because here the Enlightened God (Buddha) was born in this Lumbini village. Furthermore, the original auspicious sign of fortune which appears like the underlined double number seven of Devanagari script written from right to left direction at the beginning of the subject matter of the Sherpa Vedas indicates that the Saraba (Sherpa) script was written from right to left direction in the earlier dates. This fact has been exemplified by the inscriptions of seven symbols of the Indus script written from right to left direction, proving that the next name of the Saraba (Sherpa) script is the Indus script which was developed by the aboriginal Sherpas before the dawn of the Brahmi script which was the descent of the Kharosthi script. Similarly, the toponyms and the hydronyms of the Subcontinent are named in the Sherpa language, conforming that the lost Saraswati River is now existing in the form of the Sindhu (Indus) River. In the same way, the languages contained in the toponyms and the hydronyms manifest as the languages spoken before the influx of the Indo-European Sanskrit language, proving that the language and the Saraba (Sherpa) script or the Indus script were older than the Indo-European speaking Sanskrit language and they are the mothers of all the languages and all alphabetic scripts of this world.

This research work entitled Linguistic Archaeology of Indus and Nepalese Civilizations is the first innovative landmark study in this world, written using phonetics for the correct pronunciation of the words of the sentences of this work. The research work in this field is still in its infancy. Because of this reason, the duty of the author is to investigate into both, the higher and the lower civilization, because the latter constitutes the bedrock of the former. The Aryans representing the higher grade of culture and the non-Aryan primitive tribes representing the so-called lower grade of culture, were the twin-pillars of the edifice of the history of ancient civilizations of the Indian Subcontinent. In fact, the history and culture of the Aryans have been sufficiently highlighted by various scholars in their respective works, but that of the non-Aryan primitive tribes, especially of the aboriginal Sherpas still await proper historical evaluation, although history is the record of the life and culture of peoples living in the primitive societies in different geographical, social and cultural environments. From this point of view, the Indian Subcontinent itself is an ethnological museum, from which we can discover different patterns of settlement, inter-relations of Aryan and non-Aryan social groups, trends of socio-economic formations, social transformations, cultural paterns and the trends of evolution of religion, philosophy, art and culture in the early period.

The rich cultural heritage of Nepal has been revealed by the way of life of its people, art and languages. The Sherpa is an ethnic group of the mountains famous for their own cultural heritage and their special ability in the expedition of the Himalayas.

I recommend this book for study to all students as well as general readers who are interested in knowing about the Sherpas of Nepal. It will provide considerable knowledge to them about Sherpas, their culture and language.

The author of this book Prof. S. S. Sherpa has a deep knowledge about the Sherpas, their culture and language which has been profoundly expressed in his writings. I thank Prof. Sherpa and wish him a success.