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The Calcutta Review August 1952

1952

(Religion and Philosophy of the Veda Vol_ 31 p. 149.) THE YOGIC POSTURE The posture corresponding +o the kumarasana of later times of the three-faced figure is the familiar attitude of one absorbed in meditation. [...] LXXII) but in the second as well as in the third mode of representation of the same form " the left leg is to be bent in the utkutikasana while the right leg should be banging down the seat " (ibid pp. [...] It seems that what has led to the description of the waistband as exposed phallus is probably the dicovery of several representations of the phallus at Mohenjo Daro and the obsession that the carved figure is a prototype of Siva. [...] p. 54.) Explaining why the horns on the head of the unknown deity connects him with Siva Marshall says that the horns took in the later days the form of the trisula and in that guise continued to be the special attribute of Siva (ibid. [...] It is obvious that the representations on the Harappa sealing Are indicative of a stage of development in the cult of the earth-goddeas when she is only a departmentalised goddess of vegetation and has - not become the Great Nature or Mother-goddess who creates all life and is the Mother of all The absence of any connection between this cult and the serpent should be noted.
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Pages
83
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Indus People and Indus Religion Indus Religion—(I)
75-90 Nanimadhab Chaudhuri view
Studies in Daniel Defoe
91-98 Srichandra Sen view
Shifted Meaning of some Arabic and Persian Words in Bengali
99-103 H.C. Paul view
The Outlines of the Occupational Structure of Bihar
104-114 S.R. Bose view
Into the Nurseries of Heaven
115-133 S.C. Bhattacharya view
Round the World
134-139 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
140-144 unknown view
Ourselves
145-146 unknown view
Official Notifications University of Calcutta
147-154 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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