The Development of Hindu Iconography c10.40

c10.40

² In the Ap. Gr. S., these three deities, viz., Īśāna, Mīḍhuṣī and Jayanta are mentioned together; Haradatta explained them as images of the three gods. Hiraṇyakeśin, Gr. Sūtra (II. 3. 8), in connection with the Śūlagava sacrifice meant for Rudra for averting cattle diseases, furnishes us with the interesting fact that the cow (the consort) of the spit-ox (i.e., the ox to be symbolically sacrificed) and her calf are euphemistically described as Mīḍhuṣī and Jayanta respectively; the