INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The unicorn is the most common motif on Indus seals and appears to represent a mythical animal that Greek and Roman sources trace back to the Indian subcontinent. A relatively long inscription of eight symbols runs along the top of the seal.

Detailed explanation-2: -The most frequently occurring iconographic motif of the Indus seals, with thousands of occurrences, is a unicorn bull, a male bovine animal with a single horn.

Detailed explanation-3: -The unicorn that appears on numerous Indus valley seals is declared to be a representation of the “sage Risya Sringa” of the Ramayana, thus “proving” that those ancient carvers of the Indus valley seals were one and the same as the Vedic people worshipping their rishis endowed with columns of light.

Detailed explanation-4: -This Indus Seal was found between 1927 and 1931 during the initial excavations at Mohenjo-daro, an Indus Valley site in Sindh province, modern Pakistan. It was discovered by the British archaeologist Ernest Mackay.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Unicorn Seal 1 This seal from Mohenjo-daro measures 29 mm (1.14) inches on each side and is made of fired steatite.