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	<title>Leela Miller</title>
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		<title>Speculation on the &#8216;Pashupati&#8217; seal.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He points to sixteen other specific &#8220;yogi glyptics&#8221; in the corpus of Mature Harappan artifacts as pointing to Harappan devotion to &#8220;ritual discipline and concentration.&#8221; These images show that the yoga pose &#8220;may have been used by deities and humans alike.&#8221; Possehl suggests that yoga goes back to the Indus Valley Civilization.

The most widely known [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leelamiller.com/blog/?p=27</link>
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		<title>Shiva &#8211; Lord of Animals?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is considerable evidence to support the idea that the images show &#8220;a form of ritual discipline, suggesting a precursor of yoga&#8221; according to archaeologist Gregory Possehl. He points to sixteen other specific &#8220;yogi glyptics&#8221; in the corpus of Mature Harappan artifacts as pointing to Harappan devotion to &#8220;ritual discipline and concentration.&#8221; These images show [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leelamiller.com/blog/?p=26</link>
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		<title>Yoga in the Indus Valley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several seals discovered at Indus Valley Civilization sites depict figures in a yoga or meditation like posture. There is considerable evidence to support the idea that the images show &#8220;a form of ritual discipline, suggesting a precursor of yoga&#8221; according to archaeologist Gregory Possehl.
He points to sixteen other specific &#8220;yogi glyptics&#8221; in the corpus of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leelamiller.com/blog/?p=3</link>
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		<title>Pashupati seal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most widely known of these images was named the &#8220;Pashupati seal&#8221;by its discoverer, John Marshall, who believed that it represented a &#8220;proto-Shiva&#8221; figure. Many modern authorities discount the idea that this &#8220;Pashupati&#8221; (Lord of Animals, Sanskrit pasupati) represents a Shiva or Rudra figure. Gavin Flood also characterizes these views as &#8220;speculative&#8221;, saying that it [...]]]></description>
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