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'SINDH FIVE THOUSAND YEARS AGO'
"Not only the seated deities engraved on some of Indus seals are in yoga posture and bear witness to the Prevalence of yoga in the Indus valley in that remote age, the standing deities on the seals also show Kayotsarga posture of Yoga." Further that "The Kayotsarga posture is peculiarly Jaina. It is a posture not of sitting but of standing. In the Adi Purana, Book XVIII, Kayotsarga posture is described in connection with the penances of Bsabha or Vrsabha. A standing image of Jaina Bsabha in Kayotsarga posture on a slab showing for 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 Jinas in the Kayotsarga posture. The name Ṛsabha means 'bull' and the bull is the emblem of Jina Ṛsabha.
Jain Education International
-Prof. Ram Prasad Chanda, Modern Review,
August 1932, pp.155-160
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