Indian Antiquary Vol 33

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[FEBRUARY, 1901.
a vulture; but possibly these should be trans- flying dragon as his vehicle. On Moor's plate posted. According to the Sabdakalpadruma, Sani he is represented as a headless man with two is a Sudra by caste, of the KAéyapa gotra, belong. hands, holding a club and a lily and riding on ing to Burashtra, and born of the Sun; he sits on an owl with a human face (P a female Kimnara); a vulture, holding an arrow in the upper right and on Jones's plate it is an animal like a lynx. hand, the lower in the varadamudrd, a fala or He is of Sadra caste and of the Paithina gôtra, trident in the upper left hand and a bow in the according to the Sabdakalpadruma, and born of lower. Yama is the first presiding divinity, and the Malaya mountain, black in colour and wearing Prajapati the second. Sani is a planet of ill-omen. a black garment, sitting on a lion, and having
four hands, in the upper right he holds a sword, His names are given as, -
in the lower a rada, in the upper left a stila, and Asita; Ara;
in the lower a shield. Kald is the first presiding Konn; Kraradpis, Kräralochana, Krardtman; deity, and Sarpa the second. Kroda; Grahanayaka;
His names are these - Chhaya-tanaya, Chhayâtmaja, Chh&yacuta;
Abhrapiślicha; Graha; Kabandha; KayAna; Nilavasana, Nilavâsas, Nilâmbara;
Tamas; Bhantbhd; Rahu; Vidhuntuda; SaimPangu; Påtamgi;
hika or Saimhikêya; and Svarbhanu. Brahmanya or Brahmanya
9. The descending node is Kêtu, who is Manda, Mandaga;
represented as a head, painted green and placed Rdvatibhava;
on frog or against the cushion of a gaddi. Sani, Sanaiścbara ; Sauri;
He is of the Sudra caste and Jaimini gòtro, and Saptainsupuugava, Saptârchis, Saura, Sauri, from the () Kranñchadvipa country, of the Saurika..
colour of smoke, wears a smoke-coloured garment,
and sits on a vulture; one of his hands is in 8. The ascending node, Rahu, is painted
the varadamudrd, and the other holds a mace. black, with four arms, holding a sword, a spear,
Chitragupta is the first presiding deity, and a shield, and bestowing a blessing, and the body ending in a tail; the Vishņu-Purana saye eight
Brahma is the second. He is called
Akacha; Asléshábhava or Asleshåbba; Ketu; black horses draw his dusky car, and, once har
and Murda nessed, are attached to it for ever. Other representations give him a black lion, a tortoise, or
J. BURG888.
NOTES AND QUERIES. SOME DISAPPEARING PREJUDICES students of all communities. But when it was OF THE PARSIS.
established in 1845, eo intense was the prejudice CONSIDERING the position that the energetic of the natives against what they regarded as the Parsis now hold in the very front of all Indian
contamination of dead bodies and human bones, peoples in regard to education, progress and social that for a time it was very much feared that the freedom, the following extracts from some remi- publio endowment fund, amounting to Rs.1.25.000. niscences of one of the pioneers of reform among for the institution had been simply thrown away. the Parsis will be of interest to those who would Inducements were therefore held out to studente mark down old customs and superstitions in order to set the institution going. Not only before they disappear. Mr. K. N. Kabraji is were they admitted free, but every one was given the writer, and he writes of "Fifty years ago."
a stipend of Rs. 10 per month. 1.- Medical Education.
Some of the boys attended it in opposition to
the wishes of their parents, who were gravely What a wonderful change has been effected in offended and deeply scandalized by their sons' the popular sentiment with regard to higher edu- violation, as they fancied, of the canons of their cation, in the course of fifty years! In these days religion. I myself was a victim to this superstithe Grant Medical College is overflowing with tion. My father wanted me to go to the College;
10 Homachandra (Abhidhana-Chintamani, 6. 116-121) gives a list of the names of the planetary divinities, which has been enlarged in the above. In áll. 121-22 he adds six names of Bahu and four of Kêtu,