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hand alone, separate from any person's body, is met 

 with. 



In some cases a hand coming from above may have 

 meant the hand of God — (see pp. 33 and 34 of 

 ' Migrations des Symboles '), but in other cases it would 

 appear to mean a different thing. On the monu- 

 ments, and on the cylinders, we find two very 

 different and opposite expressions by means of raised 

 hands, viz. : 



(<7) One raised hand, and that usually the right, be- 

 longing to the king, a chief or exalted person, or judge. 

 That, it would seem, is the sign of ajttJiority. 



{b) Both hands uplifted would seem to mean S2ib- 

 mission. 



We frequently see both these expressions on monu- 

 ments and cylinders, viz. a king or judge, or minister, 

 with one hand raised, and a petitioner with both hands 

 raised. Between the king and the petitioner there is 

 frequently the introducer of the petitioner, who carries 

 a deer or other present, brought by the petitioner to 

 propitiate the great man and soften his heart. This 

 is the ' nuzur,' so universal in India. It is symbolical 

 of submission — ' all my property is yours.' ^ Very often 

 in India it means a sort of bribe, or fee for admission 

 to the king's, or governor's, presence. 



^ Of course it may also mean that a devotee brought an offering, which the 

 priest is presenting to the god. 



