regent |
characteristic |
naks.atra |
characteristic |
21. VASU |
5. punar-VASU |
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22. inDRA / varun.a |
water-god |
4. arDRA |
"moist" |
23. aja eka-pad |
beast body-part |
3. mr.ga-s`iras |
beast's body-part |
24. aHI budhNYa |
2. roHIN.I |
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25. pus.an |
boater (coracler, coracles being made of leather) |
1. kr.ttika |
"leather" |
26. AS`VIn |
26. AS`Va-Yujau |
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1. agni |
time-god [according to Veda] |
25. revati |
time-goddess [according to Puran.a] |
2. PRaja-PAti |
23-24. PRos.t.ha-PAd |
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3. soma |
drug |
22. s`ata-bhis.aj |
"100 physicians" |
4. rudra |
"howler" |
21. *s`lavis.t.ha |
"most renowned" |
5. ADITi (cow) |
= ADITe slain by LUNkeus |
20. *s`LONa |
"lame", as the bovine personification of the yuga is (viz., one-legged in the Kali yuga) |
6. BRAHMANAs-pati |
19-18. as.ad.ha |
BRAHMANA's staff |
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7. sarpa |
serpent (twining) |
17. vicr.tau |
"2 entwiners" |
8. pitr. |
father (elder) |
16. jyes.t.ha |
"eldest" |
9. ARYaman |
<ibri^: >ARI^ "lion" |
15. anuradha |
capital of Sim.hala "leonine" |
10. BHAGA |
cognate: "BOGGle" |
14. vis`akhe |
"forked" (scil., dilemma) |
11. SaViTr. |
13. SVaTI |
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12. TVAS.Tr. |
= ThUESTes, who |
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raped own daughter |
Us.a was raped |
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in darkness, but he |
while asleep, but her |
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was later identified |
rapist identified by |
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12. CITRa |
CITRa-lekha |
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13. vayu |
"wind" |
11. HaSTa |
cognate: "GuST" |
14. indra-agni |
? *PALJaNYa, rain |
10-9. PhALGuNI |
= PeLaGoN, practitioner of lustration |
15. Mitra |
god of MAG[H]ians |
8. MAGHa |
cf. [A-]MoGHa[-siddhi] [in the Puran.a etc.] |
19. vis`ve-deva |
"common to all", i.e. |
7. |
"embracer" (by implication, a whore common to all men ?) |
deities of |
AS`- |
cognate: ACCa |
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of promiscuity |
LeS.A |
*LaSentiA, a whore |
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20. vIS.n.u |
divine archer |
6. tIS.ya |
caelestial archer |
## 4 & 2 are guaranteed [by the R.c-Jyotis.a] as DRA and HIs, respectively
23. aja eka-pad "one-foot", styled [in the Veda] as upholder of the worlds, may have been so named in order to indicate the cosmic axis of rotation |
3. INVA-ga / INVA-ka |
= INVUs [according to the Saturnalia of Macrobius] rotateth |