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Title: Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
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MARRIAGE OF SIVA AND PARVATI. -From the cave of Elephanta. to the island by the Portuguese navi-gators. A short distance from the hugeeffigy is the entrance to the cavern.The same is about sixty feet in widthand eighteen feet high. The pillars ofsupport are cut out of the native rock.In the sides of the cavern are hewnmany compartments which were dedi-cated as shrines to the old Hindu gods. M.—Vol. i—47 Vishnu, and Siva. Some scholars, how-ever, have in recent times decided thatthe triune figure is not intended forBrahma and Vishnu at all, but only toexpress the threefold aspect of Siva, theDestroyer. The heads of the effigy aresix feet in height, and the features havemuch of the majesty and repose peculiarto the sphinxes of Egypt. Critics, how-
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THE IXDIC. \XS.—ARCHITECTURIi. 731 ever, have noted an unpleasing expres-sion of the underlip, which seems to betoo animal or faun-like for the deity.Egyptian analogies are also discoverablein the headdresses, which are ornament-ed. In the hand of one of the gods is acobra de capello, and on the cap are seta human skull and an infant. Doubt-less here we have an allegory of life anddeath in the infant and the skull and ofthe destroying agent by which the onebecomes the other, in the serpent. Sivawas the destroyer. Perhaps the cobrawas his principal abettor. On either side of the Trimurti standsthe figure of a man leaning on a dwarf.To the right is a cavity hollowed in thewall, in which are a great number ofmythological figures, the principal onebeing a double image of Siva and Par-vati, an effigy half male and half female.To the right also is the four-faced statueof Brahma reclining on a lotus. It isone of the rare images of the supremeHindu deity now preserved in India.Perhaps there

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