regent

characteristic

naks.atra

characteristic

21. VASU

5. punar-VASU

22. inDRA / varun.a

water-god

4. arDRA

"moist"

23. aja eka-pad

beast body-part

3. mr.ga-s`iras

beast's body-part

24. aHI budhNYa

2. roHIN.I

25. pus.an

boater (coracler, coracles being made of leather)

1. kr.ttika

"leather"

26. AS`VIn

26. AS`Va-Yujau

1. agni

time-god [according to Veda]

25. revati

time-goddess [according to Puran.a]

2. PRaja-PAti

23-24. PRos.t.ha-PAd

3. soma

drug

22. s`ata-bhis.aj

"100 physicians"

4. rudra

"howler"

21. *s`lavis.t.ha

"most renowned"

5. ADITi (cow)

= ADITe slain by LUNkeus

20. *s`LONa

"lame", as the bovine personification of the yuga is (viz., one-legged in the Kali yuga)

6. BRAHMANAs-pati

19-18. as.ad.ha

BRAHMANA's staff

7. sarpa

serpent (twining)

17. vicr.tau

"2 entwiners"

8. pitr.

father (elder)

16. jyes.t.ha

"eldest"

9. ARYaman

<ibri^: >ARI^ "lion"

15. anuradha

capital of Sim.hala "leonine"

10. BHAGA

cognate: "BOGGle"

14. vis`akhe

"forked" (scil., dilemma)

11. SaViTr.

13. SVaTI

12. TVAS.Tr.

= ThUESTes, who

raped own daughter

Us.a was raped

in darkness, but he

while asleep, but her

was later identified

rapist identified by

12. CITRa

CITRa-lekha

13. vayu

"wind"

11. HaSTa

cognate: "GuST"

14. indra-agni

? *PALJaNYa, rain

10-9. PhALGuNI

= PeLaGoN, practitioner of lustration

15. Mitra

god of MAG[H]ians

8. MAGHa

cf. [A-]MoGHa[-siddhi] [in the Puran.a etc.]

19. vis`ve-deva

"common to all", i.e.

7.

"embracer" (by implication, a whore common to all men ?)

deities of

AS`-

cognate: ACCa

of promiscuity

LeS.A

*LaSentiA, a whore

20. vIS.n.u

divine archer

6. tIS.ya

caelestial archer

23. aja eka-pad "one-foot", styled [in the Veda] as upholder of the worlds, may have been so named in order to indicate the cosmic axis of rotation

3. INVA-ga / INVA-ka

= INVUs [according to the Saturnalia of Macrobius] rotateth