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Everywhere Pan-India 94 South India 66 West India 30 East India 22 North India 15 The Himalaya 12 Northeast India 5 Southeast Asia 4 Central India 4
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How a tradition frames it · 1 telling · contested

The horned figure on the Indus seal

Ernest Mackay finds a steatite seal at Mohenjo-daro in 1928–29, dated about 2350–2000 BCE.

The Indus 'Pashupati' seal, Shiva

Pan-India