Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c7.s6.22

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Some seal impressions on triangular prisms are interesting as nothing at all similar to them has been found in Babylonia or Elam. It is also interesting to find that on some seals a file of animals (*Paśu-paṅkti*) is moving showing the unicorn, rhinoceros, crocodile, short-horned bull, elephant and tiger. This motif was very common on the older seals of Mesopotamia and Sūsā, but there the animals marching in row are lions and antelopes. The list includes three of the Four Great Animals on the Aśokan lion-capital.