Shri Arjun Balwant Walawalkar joined Central India Railway (presently Western Railway) in its Engineering Drawing Department in 1922. In 1952 he published a booklet on Konkan Railway Project. He delivered seminars and wrote many articles in local and national newspapers about this project. Many people criticized Walawalkar, believing the project was not useful.
Indian epigraphy and historyedit
Besides his public career, he was an eminent epigraphist. He studied the Brahmi epigraphy in ancient India. He tried to decipher the Indus script. He suggested a theory of development of the Indian epigraphic system according to the Maheshwara Sutras. He also proposed that the Indus script is akin to the Assyrian cuneiform & both have developed from an ancient Indic script, which he called 'Pre-Ashokan Brahmi'.[1]
He also studied medieval inscriptions in South Konkan & proposed new theories about the history and origin of the Sawant rulers of Sawantwadi. He theorized that Mang Sawant described in an inscription at Mathgaon (located in Vengurla Taluka), was an earlier ruler of Kudal region and ancestor of the Kshatriya Sawant family, who migrated to South Konkan after the fall of the Shilaharas.[2]
Referencesedit
^Decipherment of a pre-Aśokan Brahmi writing found engraved on a Babylonian Tablet, J.B.B.R.A.S., N.S. Vol. 29, part I, 1954.
^मठगांवचा शिलालेख आणि कुडाळ प्रांताचा प्राचीन इतिहास - अ. ब. वालावलकर, १९३२. (in Marathi)
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