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yogis".1 And R. B. Prof. Rama Prasad Chanda says, "Not only the seated deities engraved on some of the Indus seals are in yoga posture and bear witness to the preval. ence of yoga in the Indus Valley in that remote age, the standing deities on the seals also show Käyotsarga posture of Yoga”. Further that “The Kāyotsarga posture is pecu-- liarly Jaina. It is a posture not of sitting but of standing. In the Ādi Purāņa, Book XVII), Kāyotsarga posture is described in connection with the penances of Rsabha or Vrsabha. A standing image of Jaina Rsabha in Kāyotsarga posture on a slab showing four such images, assignable to the 2nd century A.D. in the Curzon Museum of Archaeology, Mathura is reproduced in figure 12. Among the Egyptian sculptures of the time of the early dynasties there are standing statues with arms, hanging on two sides. But though these early Egyptian statues and the archaic Greek Kouroi show nearly the same pose, they lack the feeling of abandon that characterises the standing figures on the Indus seals and images of Jainas in the Kāyotsarga posture. The name Rşabha means "bulland the bull is the emblem of Jaina Rşabha..2
1 Survival of the Pre-historic Civilization of the IndusValley - Memoir --ASI.
2 Sindh Five Thousand Years Ago - Modern Review, Aug. 1932, p. 155-160
According to Prof. / apade (Mysticism in Maharashtra p. 9) Rsabhadeva was a mystic whose utter carelessness of his body is the supreme mark of his God-realization.
Also see my article-- The Jaina mystics of Medieval Times', and that of H, C. Modi (in Anekānta I, p. 536543) which prove Rşabba to be the originator of the Yogamārga in India.
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