Image: Iravatham Mahadevan
Image: Iravatham Mahadevan

This is a pictograph of an adult person with outstretched arms. It is an ideograph for the adjective large or wide. The equivalent character in Chinese is 大.


Illustrative Text Reference:

Mohenjo-daro: Tablet: M-1429 A: Sayid Ghulam Mustafa Shah and Asko Parpola, 1991: Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions: Volume 2: Page 194: Collections in Pakistan: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia.


Image Credit:

Indus Script Sign Number 1: Sign List of the Indus Script: Iravatham Mahadevan, 1977: The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables: The Director General Archaeological Survey of India.