Lunar eclipse and the intelligent rabbit in Hampi
In ancient Indian coins, inscriptions and the emblems of various dynasties, the sun and moon were shown together to indicate eternity, which coincides with an idiom
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Any thoughts about a hare/rabbit bring to my mind a handful of fables and a few works of art of ancient India, and even world over. Mohenjo-daro of the Indus civilisation (before 1900 BCE), for instance, had yielded a life-like terracotta figurine and two copper plaque engravings, which show a rabbit each. Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) of Germany had produced, in 1502, a watercolour study of a ‘Young Hare’, which appears more realistic than any similar kind of work that might have been produced in ‘Photorealism’ of recent origin.