The Development of Hindu Iconography c12.3

c12.3

¹ Marshall, M.I.C., Vol. I, pp. 52-6, pl. XII, 17. We miss, in the assembly of animals by the side of the god, Śiva's bull Nandi. Marshall has very rightly referred to the association of deer with the historic Śiva. As regards the horns, there is no need to assume that they took the form of the triśūla or trident in later