From: Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2021 8:00:55 PM
To: Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei@uchicago.edu>
Cc: Indology <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] archeological puzzle

On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 02:39, Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei@uchicago.edu> wrote:

I am aware that the "proto-Siva" interpretation of certain Indus Valley seals has been much contested during the last few decades [...]

I was long ago convinced by the compelling arguments of Doris Srinivasan that the Indus seals having nothing to do with either Śiva or yoga.

Srinivasan, Doris. “The So-Called Proto-śIva Seal from Mohenjo-Daro: An Iconological Assessment.” Archives of Asian Art, 29 (1975): 47–58. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20062578.

Srinivasan, Doris. “Unhinging ŚIva from the Indus Civilization.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 116, no. 1 (1984): 77–89. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0035869x00166134.

Surely this issue isn't "much contested" any more, at least scholarly circles?

Further discussion in Samuel, Geoffrey. The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, in Asko's work and elsewhere.

Best,

Dominik