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Jain god of Childbirth Naigamesha, 1st-3rd century CE: "Naigamesa was a popular deity in the Kushana period and we have at least eight figures of this god from Mathura assignable to c. 1st to 3rd century A.D. (GMM., E. 1, 15.909, 15, 1001, 15. 1046, 15. 1115, 34.2402, 34. 2547, SML., J 626, etc)" in (in English) (1986) Mātr̥kās, Mothers in Kuṣāṇa Art, Kanak Publications, p. 41
English: Horned god Nejamesa (or, Naigamesa) of the Indian sub-religion Kaumaram. 1st-3rd century CE: "Naigamesa was a popular deity in the Kushana period and we have at least eight figures of this god from Mathura assignable to c. 1st to 3rd century A.D. (GMM., E. 1, 15.909, 15, 1001, 15. 1046, 15. 1115, 34.2402, 34. 2547, SML., J 626, etc)" in (in English) (1986) Mātr̥kās, Mothers in Kuṣāṇa Art, Kanak Publications, p. 41
The deity Naigamesa is apparently the same as Nejamesa mentioned in the Khilas of the Rig-Veda as a son-granting deity. Tasks, Methods and Results in the Study of the Indus Script - No. 2, 1975 - by Asko Parpola
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Source Scanned from Sacred Books of the East *India* editorship by Prof. Charles F. Horne (copyright 1903).
Author Prof. Charles F. Horne

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