Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s4.t2.60

v2.c27.s4.t2.60

Phalisa is the ‘fructifier,’ from phala, ‘fruit,’ and Isa, ‘the god.’ ² Thus the type of Osiris can have a definite interpretation, still wanting to the lingam of Iswara [600]. Both deities presided over the streams which fertilized the countries in which they received divine honours: Osiris over the Nile, from ‘the mountains of the moon,’ in Ethiopia,³ Iswara over the Indus ⁴ (also called the Nil), and the Ganges from Chandragiri, ‘the mountains of the moon,’ on a peak of whose glaciers he has his throne.