Page:Hindu Feasts Fasts and Ceremonies.djvu/112

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
96
HINDU FEASTS, FASTS AND CEREMONIES

the popular belief that Mrigasira—the fifth lunar mansion containing three stars in Orion and figured by an antelope’s head, which appear in the heavens is a symbolic representation of this Puranic story.


OOOO