28 naks.atra-s-----------32 asana-s---------------24 Tirthankara-symbols

 

2. go-mukha "cow-face"

1. ox

 

3. simha "lion"

24. lion

 

7. kurma "tortoise"

20. tortoise

 

9. svastika

7. svastika

23. holder of waterlily

11. padma "red waterlily"

6. red waterlily

 

13. vira {cf. Vira-bhadra as name for Skanda, the traveller around the continent KRAUN~CA }

5. KRAUN~CA

 

16. "stretch" {Chinese Monkey}

4. monkey

24. DHANis.t.ha

17. DHANura

 
 

19. S`AlABHA {cf. S`ArABHA, the mythical "6-legged horse"}

3. horse

25. rider on dolphin

20. makara "dolphin"

 

28. camel-headed

21. us.t.ra "camel"

 

4. serpent-headed

22. bhujanga "cobra"

 

5. rider on vulture

23. ud-KAT.a {cf. sa`KAT.ara "vulture (?)"}

 

6. wearer of green

24. vr.ks.a "tree"

 

7. 4-handed

26. -karan.i {cf. the astrological karan.a-s, one of which is named Catus.pada "4-footed"}

 

16. holder of thunderbolt & of vessel

28. vajra-un.i "thunderbolt-vessel"

 

18. rider on elephant

 

2. elephant

19. stander on corpse

32. mr.ta "corpse"

 
     
     

S`iva-priyananda: Astrology and Religion in Indian Art. Shakti Malik, New Delhi.

http://www.yrec.info/contentid-61.html

[backwards]

related may be the Chinese gymnastic exercises:--

15.

1.

 

14. tiger

2. tiger

1. tiger

13. deer

 

2. deer

10. bear

3. bear

3. bear

9. peafowl

5. swallow

 

8 & 7. snake

6. snake

 

1. monkey

 

4. monkey

22. owl

7. bird

5. bird (owl)

     

Joe David Stewart, PhD diss., Table 43. Mong_ulian 28 animals

Catherine Despeux: "Gymnastics." In:-- Livia Kohn & Yoshinobu Sakade: Taoist Longevity and Meditation Techniques. Ann Arbor: Center For Chinese Studies, U. of MI, 1989. p. 240 (Baopuzi 15)

Ibid., p. 242 (Sanguo z^i 29.2a)

related also may be the Chinese 15-ingredient compound for sexual intercourse, in dreams, with daemons:--

   

1. stag

 

7. hind

9. lightning-flash [cf. lightning slaying the Aloadai while between them dashed the hind]

 
       

6. bear [cf. bear-constellation Kallisto]

10. star

 

1. fox-muzzle

 

2. fox

 

4. vixen

 

9. fox

2. leopard-muzzle

       

11. lioness

7. leopard

3. fox skull

       

12. she-wolf

 

4. realgar (SaNDarake in Hellenic)

       

13. sieve (SuNDiattao "to sieve")

 

5. beaver-follicles

       

14. flesh-morsel

 

6.

           

7. beehive

       

15. coral-piece [having indentations, like honeycomb]

 

8.

1. birds

     

16. turtledove-blood

 

9. tiger skull-bone

   

3. varicolored tiger

3. tigress

 

6. wildcat

10.

           

11.

           

12.

           

13. hound-hair

2. hounds

         

14. camel-hair

3. camels

3. camel

4. red camel

2. camel

17. camel-hoof

 
   

4. ass [cf. ass-hoofed Lamia]

   

18. virgin cow's hair

 
   

5. goat [cf. goat-god Pan]

   

19. Pan's seed

 
     

5. spotted mouse [cf. "mouse" (smintheus) sacred to Apollon]

 

20. sunbeam-fire [i.e., kindled by focusing sunbeams in apparatus as of telescope: cf. telescope, according to Diodoros Sikelos, of Huperborean worshippers of Apollon]

2. mouse

 

4. black sheep

7. sheep

       
   

8. horse

6. blue horse

1. horse

21. colt's foot

 

15. cow-hair

5. black yak

9. yak

       
             

Michel Strickmann (ed. by Bernard Faure): Chinese Magical Medicine. Stanford U. Press, 2002. p. 249

Rene' de Nebesky-Wojkowitz: Oracles and Demons of Tibet. Mouton & Co., 's Gravenhage, 1956. pp. 383-384

ibid., p. 387

ibid., p. 391

ibid., pp. 184-185 [backwards]

Han Dieter Betz: The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. U. of Chicago Press, 1986.

IV:2241-2358

Joe David Stewart, PhD diss., Table 40. Japanese 36 animals