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The temple of Dada Dhoramnath, although much recent as compared to other finds at the site, is a temple of Nath Sampraday, a Shiva worshiping cult.
This people were highly cultured. They loved music. A pot shred shows musical instruments. Pot shreds, expressing their amorous taste show a human couple in copulating position in one, and a woman sitting in the lap of a man in another. They were quite close to Nature too. Many of the potsherds show floral patterns. The patterns also depict birds (Swans and Peacock) and Animals like Horse, Elephant, Deer, Lion etc.
The large number of shell bangles, ornamental beads, and a dye to make ornament, express their urge to decorate their bodies. The Roman amphorae indicate that they must be consuming wine.
We know nothing, at the present juncture, about their clothes. So far not a single piece of cloth is found. Similarly no evidence of their literary skill has been found except the engravings on the seal.
The script used must be Brhami. Three seals and a tombstone have Brhami engravings.
They constructed their houses with baked earth bricks. These bricks were cemented with Mud Mortar. The size of this bricks show two different patterns. (40 x 30.7 x 7 cm and 27 x 24 x 6.5 cm)
The metals used were bronze, copper and silver.
Some villagers had found some gold ornaments, but perhaps out of fear they refused to show them. 5. Whether they had any trade contacts with the outer world and the
other parts of India ?
For sure this site had contacts with the outer world, especially with Europe and Middle East. The earliest artifact, rouletted ware and metal roman prototype date back to 4th to 3rd Century BC. Both indicate the trading relations with Rome. Plain and stamped moulded ware, Roman amphorae, Roman grinding stone also point to the Roman contacts. We not only see the trading evidences with the western world, we even see its influence on the cultural behavior of these people. The trade is seen to extend to 6th cent. AD and even further. The Byzantine coin from Constantinople the present day Istanbul in Turkey and the Arab Dinara of the same period from Baghdad take the trade links all the way to Turkey and Iraq. Today it may be very simple to reach these places but in those days it might have taken days or even months of hard rigorous journey both by sea and/or land route. The relation with Sindh is indicated by the find of Coins of Arab Emirs of Sindh (7th Century AD).
How was this communication maintained? I feel sea as well as land routes must have been utilized. From Sindh one could travel to Kutch by crossing the Rann of Kutch on camel back. Caravans must have passed from the Arab world thru Iran thru Pakistan to Kutch.
The sea route was also very popular. Arab ships came to the Harrapan ports of Gujarat from third Millennium BC and continued doing so till the late history period. The Roman ships started coming here from early first cent AD. We have seen in detail about this in chapter IV
Nani Rayan must have been a river port and vessels entered the river from the sea at present day Mandvi where the river meets the sea. The find of a 13 ft brick platform so close to the river makes me
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