Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal Letters 1948

Subject Page The Pithanirnaya or Malapithaniriipana Data of its Composition.. An Ancient Legend.......... Its Development into the Daksayajlia Story.... Further Development of the Legend to explain the Origin of the Pit has.. Conception of the Yonikunda and Stanakunda associated with that of the Lifiga Some Early Tirthas associated with the Limbs of the Mother-goddess.. The Tradition abo [...] The same legend later (sometime before the rise of the Guptas in the fourth century A. D.) developed into the well-known story of the destruction of the sacrifice of Daksa Prajapati by the god giva also called Rudra. [...] The worship of the Liftga of the great god Aiva originated from the coception of the god as the father or procreator. [...] An idea of the importance the Indians of ancient times must have attached to a bath in the Y oni-kunda and to the drinking of the water of the Stanakunda may be formed from another ritual known as the Hiranyagarbha-manddcina which was conceived in imitation of the Yonikunda of the mother-goddess. [...] Mahahltrata III 82 83-85; III 84 93-95 and 151-53).1 The name of the Gaur1Aikhara (literally the peak of Gauri a form of the mothegoddess) probably connects the peak with the Himalayas.2 The Mahcbhcirata seems to locate both the Gauriklikhara and the Udyatparvata in eastern India the latter probably in the Gaya region.