Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c7.s4.57

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Nearly three-fourths of the clay-figurines represent animals specially humped bulls (*Kakudmant vṛṣabha*). Cows are never represented. The other animals are elephant, rhinoceros, pig, monkey, goat, sheep, turtle and birds etc. One specimen from a late level at Mohenjo-daro seems to be that of a horse but so indifferently made as to be doubtful. Some bull figurines are of high aesthetic quality comparable to those on the seals showing the great strength of the animal in the developed muscles, hump, strong neck, dewlap, frowning eyes and head. [Fig. 19].