Mayell has deciphered these symbols into Punjabi language. Harappa’s people and people of today’s Punjab have the same culture.ģ. However, the language spoken by the people of Punjab remained same – the Punjabi. This Prakrit is the same proto-Punjabi which was called Pali when used by Buddhists to write their scared books. Panini lived around 600 to 500 BCE at Attoch on the bank of Sind river of Punjab, then called Sept Sindhu. Some scholars called that language of Veda a Proto-Sanskrit or Vedic Sanskrit.
The first Veda, Rig, was composed around 1,500 to 600 BCE when there was no Sanskrit.
This language was named as “Prakrit” by Panini, and same language when put under thousands of rules of Grammar was called “Sanskrit”. According to Chahal the Vedas were written by sages of Punjab in the language of Punjab people. Some reader may not digest that Sanskrit came from some foreign country. He further says that languages like Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic came from foreign countries. The people living in Harappa were speaking Punjabi and so the people of present Punjab speak Punjabi. Mayell gives 11 reasons for Punjabi to be 5,500 years old:ġ. The first Chapter deals with deciphering of symbols of Harappa people inscribed on different pots or on walls. The name, “Punjab”, was given to the land of five rivers by Persians, which means “Panj aab” (five rivers) and the language of its people was called “Punjabi”. Chahal calls the old Punjabi as “Proto-Punjabi”, which actually became the language of the land of five rivers, Punjab. Mayell, being Chemist busted the myth that Punjabi was originated from Sanskrit instead from language spoken by the people of Harappa about 5,500 years ago. Mayell was founding members of Sikh Cultural Society, New York and President of Relief Committee of Greater New York for 28 years from 1984-2012.Īnother French Chemist, Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), disproved the Classical Elements, earth, air, fire, and water (called Panj Tatt – earth, air, fire, water and ether/sky, in Eastern Religions) are not elements instead discovered about 55 substances, which could not be decomposed into simpler substances by any known chemical means were provisionally listed as elements. His first book, Universality of Sikh Religion, 2006 and the current book, Punjabi Language is 5,500 Years Old, 2017 were published by the Mayell Publishers, Stamford, Connecticut, USA. He obtained his MSc in Chemical Engineering from Delhi Polytechnic Institute, Delhi in 1952 and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Texas, Austin, Texas in 1962. He moved to India in 1947 after partition of India into Pakistan and India. Mayell was born in 1929 in Sialkot about 318 Km from Harappa now in Pakistan.
Jaspal Singh Mayell has come up with origin of Punjabi language from the time of excavation of Harappa civilization about 3,500 BCE (5,500 years ago). It was Chahal in 2016 who did some preliminary research about the origin of Punjabi language and about the language of the Holy Scriptures (Aad Guru Granth Sahib) of the Sikhs. I have not come across any systematic study and research on the origin of Punjabi language. Nevertheless, nothing has been talked about the origin of Punjabi Language. Many International Punjabi Conferences have been held in Canada, India, Pakistan, UK, and USA which were attended by experts of Punjabi, spoke about Punjabi and recited poems some were honored for writing books and novels in Punjabi. Book: Punjabi language is 5,500 years old (First Edition 2017) Author: Dr Jaspal Singh Mayell | Publishers: Mayell Publishers, Stamford, Connecticut, USA | Distributors: Singh Brothers, Amritsar | ISBN: 0-977 COVER: Book: Punjabi language is 5,500 years old (First Edition 2017)