This Indus Seal was found between 19 during the initial excavations at Mohenjo – daro, an Indus Valley site in Sindh province, modern Pakistan. Some archaeologists suggest that these seals were used for commerce purposes, or worn as a protective amulet. These perfectly capture the tiniest of details of the animal, including hairy ears and the horny snout upraised in perpetual curiosity. Anonymous artists in Indus Valley carved this magical seals and cameos of rhinos into soft steatite. Mahabharata describes the Varaha as shown in the Harappan iconography. From this reason I am called by the name of Ekasringa ”. “ Assuming, in the days of old, the form of a Varaha (boar or rhino?) with a single tusk (Eka-Sringa or Unicorn), o enhancer of the joy of others, I raised the submerged Earth from the bottom of the ocean. In the Santi Parva of Mahabharata, Krishna says: Sweta Varaha is so strong, he restored earth from completely sinking into water. Some say, against popular notion, that Varaha avatar is not a wild boar (or pig) with one horn, but a White Rhinoceros – or better an Elasmotherium, which is an ancestor of the present day’s Rhino. Otherwise, known as the Gandiva, after Gandaka, the Sanskrit word for rhinoceros, the rainbow – hued bow was given by Varuna, the Lord of the Waters, to Arjuna, the Pandava prince, on the eve of the latter’s Khandava Forest adventure with Krishna.Īmong the popular avatars (incarnations) of Vishnu, Sweta Varaha is the third. This was used to festoon the world – beating weapon that Arjuna wields in the Mahabharata. The earliest literary reference to the Khadga, as the rhino is called in Rig Vedic verses, speaks of the Discover Myth & Folklore of the One-horned rhinoceros also known as the Indian Rhinoceros. We stand very near, quite at the riverbank peering behind tall grass, hearing – observing – now it is slowly reaching the water, peacefully munching. At Bardia National Park, a lone rhino swishes out the elephant grass.
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