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| An impression made from the steatite seal. Source |
Shiva (/ˈʃiːvə/; Sanskrit: शिव [ɕɪʋɐ], IAST: Śiva, ISO: Śiva, 
listen (help·info), lit. 'The Auspicious One'), also known as Mahadeva (lit. 'The Great God'),[9][10][11] is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. He is the Supreme Being in Shaivism, one of the major traditions within Hinduism.[12][13]
The Pashupati Seal is a steatite seal which was uncovered in the 1928–29 Archaeological Survey of India excavations of the Indus Valley Civilisation site of Mohenjo-daro, then in the British Raj, and now in Pakistan. The seal depicts a seated figure that is possibly tricephalic (having three heads). The seated figure was once thought to be ithyphallic (having an erect penis), an interpretation that has been questioned by many critics and even supporters.[1] The man has a horned headdress and is surrounded by animals. He may represent a horned deity.[2]
The Dravidian peoples, or Dravidians, are an ethnolinguistic group originating in South Asia who predominantly speak any of the Dravidian languages. There are around 245 million native speakers of Dravidian languages.[1] Dravidian speakers form the majority of the population of South India and are natively found in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan,[2] Bangladesh, the Maldives, Nepal,[3] Bhutan[4] and Sri Lanka.[5] Dravidians are also present in Singapore and the United Arab Emirates through recent migration.
The period of the imperial Cholas (c. 850 CE - 1250 CE) in South India
was an age of continuous improvement and refinement of Dravidian art
and architecture. They utilised the wealth earned through their
extensive conquests in building long-lasting stone temples and exquisite
bronze sculptures, in an almost exclusively Hindu cultural setting.
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