https://freerepublic.com/tag/skandapurana/ en-us Sun, 3 May 2026 13:52:25 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4377478/posts 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... Archaeology Magazine https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4377478/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2026 13:52:25 GMT