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Mohen-jo-daro Antiquitier and Jainism ....A standing image of Jina Rishabha in Kayotsarga posture on a atele showing four such images assignable to the second century A. D. in the Curzon Museum of Archaeology, Mathura (was reproduced in the "Modern Reviews for August 1932). It will be seen that the pose of this image closely resembles the pose of the standing deities on the Indus seals ... The name Rishabha means bull and the bull is the emblem of Jina Rishabha. The standing deity figured on seals three to five (pl. 11) with a bull in the foreground may be the proto-type of Rishabha.''15 In the Digambara Jaina text ADIPURANA, (Book xxi) a full exposition of Dhyana (Meditation) is given and in it there is an instructive account of the Yoga postures, Regarding the pose of the eyes it is stated in it (xxi, 62) “Natyunisan na catyamtam nimisan' 'Neither keeping the eyes wide open nor totally shutting them up." As !Yoga postures, the author of Adipurana (xxi. 71) writes: with the mind distracted, how can one practis: Dhyana ? Therelore the easy postures Kāyotsarga and Paryank" are desirable: other postures are painful." This Kiyotsarga (dedication of body in standing) posture is popularily Jaina Hence it is most probable that the people of Indus Valley followed the Yoga cull of Tirthankara Rishabha, who according to the Hindu Purāna was responsible to introduce the Yoga system of Paramhansa type and was counted as eighth Avatar of Vishnu.16
3 Adorable Deities--- Apart from the Mother Goddess & phallus worship the people of indus adored some other deities, which can be traced in the figures on seals. Prof. Pran Nath deciphired the inscription of the Indus seal No. 449 and he read on it the word * Jinesvara" (FFAECAT:;", which is a peculiar term by which a Jaina Tirthankara is known. It points out that worship of Jaina lîrthankaras was not obscure at that period. Besides this, Prof. Prån Näth was of opinion that Indus people worship such Tantrik deities as Śri, Hși, Kļim etc. In the Jain pantheon Sri, Hri Dhrati, Kirti, Buddhi and Lakshmî are important female deities.Hence we
15. R. P. Chanda, Modern Review, August 1932, pp. 155-160 16. Bhagavata, 17. Indian Historical Quarterly, Vol. Vill Supplement, p. 18, 18. lbid 19. Tattwärthdhigama-Sîtra,
