Significance of the single horned bull in Indus seals

The Indus seals, also called Harappan seals depicting finely executed carvings, approximately dating as far back as 3500 years, are highly sophisticated heritage artifacts which mirror the religious, social and More...

River Sarasvati as Eulogised in Rig Veda

Sarasvati is celebrated both as a river deity, as her name and as the goddess of knowledge and ‘vak’-speech personified, is so identified because of her act of “flow”. Etymologically the word sara means More...

Vratyas in Indus Seals – II

[contextly_sidebar id=”VTTmrwWRaWePenn9p2aLXYbAF0EoGRU1″] The Geographical Migration of Vratyas: The Atharvaveda 15.2 makes a very ambiguous statement: “Of him in the eastern quarter, faith is More...

Vratyas in Indus Seals – I

Abstract Interpreting Indus Seals by deploying the literary sources, social and cultural practices that prevailed in those times, unearths information hidden in the seals. Some of the Indus seals show a peculiar More...