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¹ At the beginning of the chapter (and again in the concluding verse) the lion is loosely indicated as ‘the riding animal of the gods’ (*devānāṁ vāhanam*). It is, however, well known that the lion (or the tiger) is more particularly the animal of Pārvatī, the consort of Śiva. It is hardly necessary to point out that of the other deities, both male and female, each, as a rule, has his or her own *vāhana*, e.g., Kārttikeya the pea-cock, Gaṇeśa the mouse, Indra the elephant, Yama the buffalo, Sūrya a chariot drawn by seven horses, Varuṇa a crocodile (*makara*), Kubera a man (whence his epithet *nara-vāhana*), etc.