The Pashupati
Seal
The Pashupati seal (Mohenjo-Daro Seal No.420) shows a man with three faces, wearing bangles
and a horned head-dress with plumes, seated on a throne in a very difficult
yogic position called mulabandhasana (in
which the legs are bent below the body such that the heels are pressed together
below the groin with the toes pointing downwards). The yogi is surrounded by
four wild animals – elephant, rhinoceros, tiger and water buffalo.
Note: This article has been published on heritageonline.in
The Gond tribes of Central India have been
in the news lately because of their linguistic connections to the Indus Valley
civilization.
According to Gondi scholar Dr.Motiravan
Kangale, the letters of the Gondi script, which can be found inscribed in the
interiors of the Gotuls (youth
dormitories) in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, resemble the Indus script - in
particular, the Late Harappan style
of writing. He provided a number of decipherments of the Indus seal
inscriptions using the root morphemes of the proto-Dravidian Gondi language.
