Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c7.s6.11
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c7.s6.11
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ANIMALS ON THE SEALS—The seals are engraved with figures of animals shown in profile with a line of pictograph above. An ox like animal with a single horn, is depicted on the majority of seals. In front of the beast is an object which was taken to be a bird-cage. As shown above this was the standard banner or pillar sacred to the cult of Rudra-Śiva. This standard does not occur outside the Indus civilisation. Other animals are the big Brahmani bull, a magnificent beast with hump and heavy dewlap, short-horned bull, buffalo, rhinoceros, tiger, elephant, hare, antelope, eagle, crocodile, etc.