The Pashupati Seal (also Mahayogi seal or Proto-Śiva seal) is a steatite seal which was uncovered in the 1928–29 Archaeological Survey of India excavations of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) site of Mohenjo-daro of Indian-Subcontinent. It has one of the more complicated designs in the thousands of seals found from the Indus Valley Civilization, and is unusual in having a human figure as the main and largest element; in most seals this is an animal. It had been claimed to be one of the earliest depictions of the Hindu god Shiva—Pashupati (Lord of animals) being one of his epithets, or a -- proto-Shiva-- deity. M.V.N. Krishna Rao identified the figure with the Hindu god Indra. He argued that the tiger could be ignored since it is much larger than the other animals, and the two deer could also be ignored since they were seated under the table. Then he combined the first phoneme of each of the animals, and the word --Nara-- meaning man, and arrived at the term -- Makhanasana-- which is an epithet of Indra. (Credit: Pashupati_seal, Wikipedia) (Image-Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shiva_Pashupati.jpg ) 🙏❤️🌹
