Evidence of jallikattu in the Indus Valley emerges

"Jallikattu, " which is bull-baiting or bull fighting, is an ancient Dravidian tradition that
was practised about 4,000 years ago during the Indus Valley civilisation. The Jallikattu
practice also indicates that the Indus Valley civilization has extended up to the whole of
India. This also shows the Aryan Invasion theory created by Christians was untrue and
the purpose of the theory was to demoralize and convert the low IQ Tamils. Jallikattu is
in the news after the Supreme Court on January 11 2008 declined to give permission to
Tamil Nadu Government and some villages for the conduct of this sport. It is
traditionally organized in the State during Pongal which falls on January 15 this year.

A hieroglyph or a seal, about 4,000 years old, is on display at the National Museum,
New Delhi. This seal was found at Mohenjodaro in the 1930s. The seal attests to
Jallikattu, custom. This seal realistically brings alive a vigorous scene of bull-fighting.
It portrays a ferocious bull in action, several men or a single man (according to two
different interpretations) , thrown in the air by it as they try to control it. This seal, made
of stone, is on display in the National Museum, New Delhi and was dated to 2,000 B.C.
Several scholars had commented upon this seal as portraying bull-baiting during the
Indus civilisation.

The seal was found at Mohenjodaro, shows a single bull with curved horns in the
"action" of goring a single man or several men. Its horns are shown in the middle to
depict the speed and fluency of its action: the angry bull has suddenly turned its neck
sideways to toss the daring men and then its neck has come to its original position.
The seal has used the frieze technique to portray the charged atmosphere. There were
two interpretations to what was engraved on the seal

One school is of the opinion that the seal shows several men, who tried to control the
bull, thrown up in the air by the animal. A couple of men are shown flying in the air with
their legs and hands spread out, a third man is seen jumping to grab the bull, another is
somersaulting and yet another has pathetically come to rest on his haunch.
Another opinion is that the seal shows only one man, who is flung into the air by the
bull, his flying, his plunging, his somersaulting and finally sitting on his haunch.

A colour photograph of this seal is found at No. M 312 in The Corpus of Indus Seals and
Inscriptions, Volume 1, edited by Asko Parpola and others. There is no script on the
seal.

Bull-baiting figures in the Mahabharatha, which describes Krishna controlling a

ferocious bull in the forecourt of Kamsa's palace. Outside India, bull-baiting is practised
in Spain and Portugal.