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ganas or attendant spirits A Shiva. Thus (1) Tapes and (2) 
Parvati as Gemini, (3) Taurus as his sacred bull Nandi, (4) Leo 
as Parvati’s charger Lion, <e) (5) the group of stars extol Cancer 
as the ganas of Shiva with their ish or chief Ganesh complete 
what is known as Shiva-Panchayatana—five in one (Fig. 5). 
This, I believe, is a new idea not recorded before. I therefore 
submit it to the Society for further investigation. If Sagit- 
tarius is god Negal of the Assyrians, if Virgo is the Venus of 
the Grecians, if Lubdhak is a manifestation of Shiva of the 
Hindus, there is reason to believe that Gemini or Mithun is the 
eternal Yugma of Shiva, and that Taurus, Leo, and Cancer are 
its concomitants. I reproduce the figures for ready reference 
and for contemplation of the celestial origin of god Shiva. 
(Fig. 6 
The southern border-land Pratyanta points to the equator. 
The confinement of the hunter means his disappearance below 
the horizon, the intervening stars in the celestial orb between 
Sirius and Gemini are possibly the bael leaves, and the way the 
antelopes took is possibly the well-known milky wa 
This is not a new way of thinking. E. W. Maunder in his 
‘* Astronomy without a Telescope ’’ tells us at page 11, that 
‘* In several cases there are groups of figures which form some- 
thing like a connected story; Hercules and the Dragon, Perseus 
and Andromeda are examples.’ 
The story of the hunter and the antelope with oe con- 
n oup of the Shiva’s Panchayatana are but examples 
of the same process when examined through Hindu a 
EXTRACTS FROM THE TEXT. 
) wae Hea fanqaaateaa: 4 
y wiat face daat aaa azar fe | 
) aa alata Seg TH warfa afaarfa n eee | 
) efeates aie gaasafy wate | 
| aoe ay acai fefad afa faa 1 23e | 
| Vad Waa aa Fae ala a Bw 
) aiet fafaa sam waely acea 1 ee | 
| aeH fered wa eatat esat eat | 
) Bama dare waive afar | 
\ Baus gadaty wa TaA_AA | RRB | 
