Essays Lectures on Religion of Hindu Vol 02

Author(s): H H Wilson
Publisher: Trubner and Company London

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12. May that pious SARVANIVARAŇA VISHKAMBHÍ, desirous of the form of a fish, and decorated with the lord of snakes, who gave all to the sage Uớiya, and throwing off a portion of himself became the passionless Vitarága, Phanindreśwara', be propitious to you-I adore him.
13. As Uviyána”, shaded by his umbrella, was engaged in devotion on the bank of the Vágmati, PŘITHWIGARBHA suddenly appeared and established that portion of himself, the Vítarága Gandheśa”, the friend of all, standing in the presence of LOKANÁTH, may he be propitious to you -I adore him.
14. As UÞIYÁNA, having obtained super-human faculties from his austerities, was delighted, remem
| A fish is the symbol of VISIIKAMBIÍ; but it is clear that in this, as in other stanzas, the primitive symbol is lost sight of in the new Lingamite personification, which is more especially referred to in every instance, and which is not always alluded to under the same type. In this case it is the Iswara, or Linga, of the Lord of Hooded Snakes.
? The person mentioned in this, and alluded to, although not named (in the original) in the next verse, is no further specified than as an Acharya, or holy man. LOKANÁTII, LOKEŚWARA, and the son of AMITA, are considered by Mr. Hodgson to imply PADMAPÁNI, who is held to be the especial Lord of the eight Vitarágas.
3 The authors of this nomenclature seem to have been rather at a loss for an appropriate name, and have apparently taken Gandhesa, the Lord of Odour, from smell being the property of the element of earth, from which the Bodhisattwa, named PŘrtiwi and Ksuti-GARBIIA, derives the first member of his name.