The Dholavira sign board reads MINNAGARA NAHAPANA:
Minnagara is mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. The periplus is dated reliably to aroung 50 A.D. The significance of this is that the city of Minnagara was a flourishing metropolis of a prosperous country at the beginning of the common era. That is 1500 years later than the presently accepted end of IVC.And Indus script was the writing, they put up a 10 feet long signboard on the northern gateway of the city.
41. Beyond the gulf of Baraca is that of Barygaza and the coast of the country of Ariaca, which is the beginning of the Kingdom of Nambanus and of all India. That part of it lying inland and adjoining Scythia is called Abiria, but the coast is called Syrastrene. It is a fertile country, yielding wheat and rice and sesame oil and clarified butter, cotton and the Indian cloths made therefrom, of the coarser sorts. Very many cattle are pastured there, and the men are of great stature and black in color. The metropolis of this country is Minnagara, from which much cotton cloth is brought down to Barygaza.
— Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
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