244, SURG.-GEN. C. A. GORDON, M.D., C.B., ETC., ON 
Chandra, or the Moon, was considered to be aform of Jswara, 
the god of nature (masculine J/sani), his consort, in one of 
her characters the type of Luna of the Romans, Lunus of the 
Palmyrans. 
Kali, the wife of Siva, appears to have been represented 
by Hecate and by Proserpine, daughter of Ceres, the transposi- 
tion being accounted for by the fact that the apparent 
destruction of matter signifies no more than that the same 
matter is reproduced in a different form. As Bhawani she 
has been already mentioned; other names she bears are 
Parvati and Durga. As embiematical of eternity, by which 
her husband, or time, is destroyed, the representations of 
Kali and Siva are for the most part associated in sculptures 
and pictures. In Egyptian symbolic inscriptions the snake 
has ever been the emblem of eternity. As Parvati, many of 
the qualities of the Olympian Juno occur in Kali; she is 
usually attended by her son Nartikia, who rides on a peacock. 
Kartikyia, with his six faces and numerous eyes, bears 
some resemblance to Argus, He is considered to be the same 
as Orus of Egypt, Cupid of the Romans, and Apollo of the 
Greeks. Like the latter, he was skilled in the healing art. 
Nared, a son of Brahma, has been compared with Hermes 
or Mercury. 
Lakshmi, daughter of Bhrigu, wife of Vishnu, and goddess 
of beauty; named also Myrionyma, Sris, and Sri. Her repre- 
sentations are very similar to those of Ceres; also to those of 
Venus Aphrodite ot the Greeks, and to Jsis of the Egyptians. 
Among the Hindoos Lakshmi is looked upon as the goddess 
of harvests and abundance. She is represented as “sitting 
upon a lotus, and resplendent as the sun.” The lotus (Wym- 
phea lotus) is held sacred to her in Hindostan, as the same 
plant, or the Velumbium, is also sacred in ‘Tibet and Nepal. 
The Lingam is believed to have been represented by Phallus, 
son of Bacchus and Venus, worshipped at Lampsacus, on the 
Hellespont. The seven lamps used when that emblem was 
worshipped by Brahmins “ exactly resemble the candelabra 
of the Jews, as seen in the triumphal arch of Titus.”* 
* Craufurd, vol. i, p. 140. 
