Five thousand years ago, a league of nomadic people landed in northwest India, forming the Indus Valley Civilization. Walls 70 feet thick and 25 feet high cast shadows over the two major cities of this early urban society. These carefully laid out cities, Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, were home to more than 80,000 people and covered more than 800,000 square miles.
Between 1921 and 1932, two archaeologists, M.S. Vats and John Marshall, unearthed the Indus Valley Civilization, discovering a system of roads, bathing pools, clay bricks, toys and toilets left behind by this ancient and mysterious society.
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They also found hundreds of wooden seals, depicting Brahmanic gods and bearing cryptic inscriptions. One in particular, seal No. 420, shows a squatted figure resting on bent knees and pointed toes, the heels and soles of his feet pressed together. The image attracted the attention of a small group of scholars who suspected the position to be the Mulabandhasana asana, an extremely demanding yogic pose.
No. 420 sparked new speculation: Did the people of the Indus Valley Civilization practice yoga more than two and a half thousand years before the Hindu sage Patanjali wrote the 196 Sanskrit mantras that constitute the Yoga Sutras? (more)
Source: The Missourian
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