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Updated: June 10, 2025
And those high-souled heroes then brought them away and gave them unto the illustrious Mahadeva. Then from one of the sides of Siva's body there came out a Brahmacharin of tawny eyes. And he seemed to be the refuge of asceticism. Of blue throat and red locks, he was endued with great might. And fixing the arrow on the bowstring, he began to stretch the latter duly.
A few feet above Siva's head was a platform, on which lay a young lady of exquisite beauty. The prince went to the platform and saw that the head of the lady was separated from her body. Horrified at the sight, he did not know what to make of it. He saw a stream of blood trickling from the severed head, falling upon the matted head of Siva, and running into the ocean in the form of rubies.
It flashed across his worried brain that space had been given him by the gods in which to think. Jaimihr one facet of the problem and perhaps the sharpest would have his hands full for a while, and the priests wish how they would would never dare omit the after-ritual in Siva's temple.
There were, for instance, Siva's priests. It is not to be forgotten that in that part of India the priests had been foremost in fomenting the rebellion. They urged Howrah constantly to take the field against the British, and it was only the sure knowledge of his brother's intention to strike for the throne that prevented the Maharajah from doing what the priests urged.
He was once dwelling in the house of a dairyman, and he used constantly to be stealing butter and curdled milk from the dairyman's wife. She did not know, for a long time, what became of her butter and curdled milk; but at last she found out that Vrishnoo was the thief. To punish him for his theft, she tied him to a rice mortar. Siva's conduct was very bad. I will tell you but one thing about him.
This, we are told, is because Siva's trident is turned against those points of the compass on those particular days, and one would therefore be in danger of being transfixed by this divine weapon! Then a man must not begin any important work on Rahu-kalam. This inauspicious time covers an hour and a half of each day of the week and is at a different hour every day.
Alluding to the tradition of Siva's holding Ganga on his head and for which the great god is sometimes called Gangadhara. This word occurs in various forms, Ketumala and Ketumali being two others. The Bombay edition reads tu for cha after Jamvukhanda. The meaning becomes changed. The sacred stream Ganga is believed to have three currents.
But more important both for the absorption of aboriginal cults and for its influence on speculation and morality is the part played by Śiva's wife or female counterpart. The worship of goddesses, though found in many sects, is specially connected with Śivaism.
Siva's paradise, according to Hindu mythology, is on Mount Kailása, in the Himályas, north of Mánasa. Tawney's translation, which is used throughout this work.
And each month, when the full moon rose above the carved dome of Siva's temple, there was a ceremony gone through that commemorated cruelty, greed, poisoning, throat-slitting, hate, and all the hell-invented infamy that suckles always at the breast of stagnant treasure.
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