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Indian Ethnicity and Religious Heritage
or Eighth Century B.C.
In this connection, it is also worthwhile to note that according to one scholar some sumerians were worshipping a God whose vehicle was a bullock. If this is true the God may be either Shiva or Rishabbdev the first Tirthankar of Jains whose reference is found even in Rigved, Yajurved and the Hindu Puranas (Ref. Preface of "Shadkhandāgami" of Shri Subaiyya Shastri).
So it would be safe to conclude that some Indus people were also following the "Shraman" system of thought which subsequently gave great impatus to the Indian philosophical thought.
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