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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





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