Journal of the University of Bombay [History Economics and Sociology] July 1936

Thus the inscriptions tell us : 1. "The Supreme Being of all the gods of the fields that makes peace." 2. " The Supreme Being of the successful dark growing moon".4 3. " The Supreme Being of the rain clouds of the Fish".5 4. "The Supreme Being of the clouds of man"." 5. " The Supreme Being of the Minas".7 6. " The Supreme Being of the Minas who have the sun on high".8 1. Photo M. D. 1928-29 No [...] V PART The Ram the Harp the Crab the Mother the Scale the Arrow the Jar and the Fish or the two Fishes.' Images of this Supreme Being under these forms were worshipped in different parts of the country. [...] One of the inscriptions runs as follows : 101Q " E:1 ir 0 This inscription reads : Cr nalam {lug euppi irkra min minanir 1. e." The prosperity of the land is of the Minas of the Fish who have the despised litiga".4 Another inscription informs us who were especially those who despised the lino " the canal (which is) in front of the...houses of the land of the liriga (which is) despised by the thi [...] About the Bilavas the inscriptions say : 1. In the dark growing half of the moon when the sun was on high the Bilavas pulled down the four houses of the litiga.1 (According to this inscription the litiga among the Bilavas had houses the rent of which was used for fostering its cult.) 2. "The lingo of the eight villages of the VelvP1 Bilavas (is) the high sun of the harvest".' (Velvel Bilavas wer [...] This god of the rain clouds or of the rains is often mentioned in the inscriptions.' Also the god of thunder is being referred to but in a descriptive way : The very great god shaking the height of the clouds who is in the house ".2 To shake the height of the clouds' seems to mean " shaking the high clouds ". The god of death is referred to in connection with one of the human sacrifices of whi