Elements of Hindu Iconography v4.c25.s3.90

v4.c25.s3.90

The second illustration, fig. 2, Pl. CXIX, is of Śiva who took the form of a sow to suckle a number of the young ones of a pig which was killed in a hunt and which were dying for want of succour. Here, Śiva is represented with the usual four arms in two of which he is seen carrying the *paraśu* and the *mriga*, while with two others he is seen hugging a number of little pigs, which are drinking lustily the milk from the teats of their foster-mother, while some are squeaking and rolling down on the earth