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‘The inhabitants of Harappa appear also to have been in the habit of offering in their temples terra-cotta cones, with or without figures of animals, of which several specimens have been recovered. A large cone of dark stone, 11 inches high, resembling the Siva-liṅga of modern times, must have been,’ declares Rai Bahadur Dayaram Sahni, ‘used for worship.’¹