28 naks.atra-s-----------32 asana-s---------------24 Tirthankara-symbols
2. go-mukha "cow-face" |
1. ox |
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3. simha "lion" |
24. lion |
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7. kurma "tortoise" |
20. tortoise |
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9. svastika |
7. svastika |
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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 |
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16. "stretch" {Chinese Monkey} |
4. monkey |
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24. DHANis.t.ha |
17. DHANura |
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19. S`AlABHA {cf. S`ArABHA, the mythical "6-legged horse"} |
3. horse |
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25. rider on dolphin |
20. makara "dolphin" |
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28. camel-headed |
21. us.t.ra "camel" |
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4. serpent-headed |
22. bhujanga "cobra" |
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5. rider on vulture |
23. ud-KAT.a {cf. sa`KAT.ara "vulture (?)"} |
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6. wearer of green |
24. vr.ks.a "tree" |
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7. 4-handed |
26. -karan.i {cf. the astrological karan.a-s, one of which is named Catus.pada "4-footed"} |
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16. holder of thunderbolt & of vessel |
28. vajra-un.i "thunderbolt-vessel" |
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18. rider on elephant |
2. elephant |
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19. stander on corpse |
32. mr.ta "corpse" |
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S`iva-priyananda: Astrology and Religion in Indian Art. Shakti Malik, New Delhi. |
[backwards] |
related may be the Chinese gymnastic exercises:--
15. |
1. |
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14. tiger |
2. tiger |
1. tiger |
13. deer |
2. deer |
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10. bear |
3. bear |
3. bear |
9. peafowl |
5. swallow |
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8 & 7. snake |
6. snake |
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1. monkey |
4. monkey |
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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] |
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6. bear [cf. bear-constellation Kallisto] |
10. star |
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1. fox-muzzle |
2. fox |
4. vixen |
9. fox |
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2. leopard-muzzle |
11. lioness |
7. leopard |
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3. fox skull |
12. she-wolf |
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4. realgar (SaNDarake in Hellenic) |
13. sieve (SuNDiattao "to sieve") |
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5. beaver-follicles |
14. flesh-morsel |
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6. |
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7. beehive |
15. coral-piece [having indentations, like honeycomb] |
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8. |
1. birds |
16. turtledove-blood |
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9. tiger skull-bone |
3. varicolored tiger |
3. tigress |
6. wildcat |
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10. |
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11. |
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12. |
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13. hound-hair |
2. hounds |
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14. camel-hair |
3. camels |
3. camel |
4. red camel |
2. camel |
17. camel-hoof |
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4. ass [cf. ass-hoofed Lamia] |
18. virgin cow's hair |
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5. goat [cf. goat-god Pan] |
19. Pan's seed |
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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 |
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4. black sheep |
7. sheep |
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8. horse |
6. blue horse |
1. horse |
21. colt's foot |
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15. cow-hair |
5. black yak |
9. yak |
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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 |