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Srinivasan Pichumani srini at ENGIN.UMICH.EDU
Thu Sep 18 14:36:25 UTC 1997


W.Trimble asks:

>>".Lii" is an epithet of Siva.  Does anyone know of its origin?

Elementary... the two "i"s of course refer to the two
regular eyes of Siva... the third eye is a tad warm,
I believe, and hence the "i" puffs up to a ".L".
Thus, ".Lii" => trinetra => Siva.

Yaaskaly yours,
-Srini.





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