Dear Devotee, Disclaimer: The following is simply an "academic reference". > They say that Shiva took the form of eight legged Creature(like a > spider man) to kill lion. Let Lord Shiva be a Spider man/Ape man. > That is his business. Sharabha was not spiderman or apeman :-). The description of sharbha is something like partly lion, partly snake and partly a bird. Sharabha worship was usually confined to Himachal regions and was shared with obscure Bauddha cults too. It was also called "pakshirAja". The Himachali shrines contains bones of sharabha, which were actually dinosaur bones. The description given curiously matches the description of archeopteryx. So the people there seemed to have got the anatomy alright. Here is a crude reconstruction of the same: http://daphne.palomar.edu/mlane/DRAWINGS/archeopteryx.JPG and of sharabha: http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/narasimha/pahari.jpg http://www.shivaya.biz/i/Product%20Images/Sharaba_CD.gif The episode of sharabha seemed to have caused heated clashes between shaivas & vaishnavas. Regards, Kasturi Rangan .K ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/.itolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ramanuja/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ramanuja-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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