The Development of Hindu Iconography c12.7

c12.7

¹ Mackay, *Further Excavations at Mohenjo-daro*, Vol. I, p. 335; Vol. II, Pl. LXXXVII, figs. 222 and 235, and Pl. XCIV, fig. 420. Mackay is not sure whether there are horns on the head of the figures on seals Nos. 420 and 222; with regard to the latter, he says, ‘The horns, if indeed they are horns, are definitely separate from the head; they are, moreover, represented as fastened to the base of the twig.’ What has been described as a probable *ūrdhvaliṅga* feature of the figure on No. 420 is absent on the figures on the two other seals, where they appear to be wearing a very short piece of loin-cloth comparable, according to Mackay, with *lyaṅgot* (kaupīna?), so frequently worn by yogis and sannyāsis of India.