18/02/2022
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THE UNICORN & INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION
The Unicorn is the most common motif on Indus seals and appears to represent a mythical
animal. The description of Unicorn is also found in Greek and Roman traditions and literature.
Sir John Marshall wrote in his book Mohenjodaro and the Indus Valley Civilization (1931) that
the Unicorn was, of course, a familiar creature of Indian folk stories, and Vishnu's title
of Ekasringa may conceivably embody some memory of this prehistoric beast, though it
is just as likely that it owed its origin to the Rhinoceros, from which also the Unicorn we
are discussing may ultimately have been derived. Whatever its origin, however, it seems
clear from the large number of amulet seals on which this animal is portrayed that,
whether regarded as an object of cult worship or as a magic talisman, it was more
popular than any other animal among the Indus people (Page 69) Mackay, Possehl
and others have proposed that the single horn is an artistic is an artistic convention for two
horns in profile. In front of the unicorn is a ritual offering stand with droplets of water or
sacred liquid along the bottom of the bowl. The top portion of the stand depicts a square
grid or sieve that actually may have been a circular cylinder. According to Mahadevan
1159 seals with Unicorn impressions have been found from Indus Valley Civilization Sites
(Mahadevan 1977)
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