Sanskrit Seal Refers to Sacred Shiva Text

Archaeology Magazine ^ | April 28, 2026 | editors / unattributed

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The Times of India reports that researchers led by epigrapher K. Muniratnam Reddy from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) have decoded a Sanskrit inscription written in Brahmi characters on a seal discovered in what is now Pakistan. The translation reads, "Devadaruvane Svami Kotesvarah," indicating that the fifth-century a.d. seal belonged to a temple dedicated to Shiva, a principal Hindu deity. Reddy and his colleagues explained that the inscription refers to a pivotal story about Shiva set in the Devandaru forest that is recorded in a sacred text called the Skanda Purana. The seal is thought to be the oldest known depiction of the story, Reddy concluded. To read about efforts to document petroglyphs in a remote region of India, go to "Himalayan High Art."

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I’ll be 90 next month and at this point, I think I should look very hard at the spiritual. I’m not very religious in spite of or maybe because of Catholic high school and college.

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” I think I should look very hard at the spiritual. “

So, if I may ask - what are you doing about it? :)