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Art. II.—Note on the Sri Jantra and Khat Kon Chakra, (Six-Angled Wheel), or Double Equilateral Triangle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2011

E. C. Ravenshaw Esq
E. C. Ravenshaw Esq
Affiliation:
Bengal Civil Service.
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In presenting to the Royal Asiatic Society the accompanying two specimens, in crystal, of the Sri Jantra, it will be proper to offer some explanation of the manner in which they came into my hands; of the use to which they are applied by the Hindus; and of the meaning, and apparently great antiquity, of the mysterious symbol of the Double Equilateral Triangle.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 13 , January 1852 , pp. 71 - 80
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1852

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page 72 note 1 Figure 2, Plate I, gives a bird's eye view of the Jantra, showing the leaves of the lotus and double triangle in the centre. Fig. 3 shows the elevation.

page 72 note 2 In Egypt, the hieroglyphic sign of the earth was also a square.—Bunsen, p. 534.

page 72 note 3 Asiatic Researches, vol. viii. p. 386.Google Scholar

page 73 note 1 Asiatic Researches, vol. viii. p. 393.Google Scholar

page 73 note 2 Bunsen, , p. 438, says, “the Triad Isis, Osiris, and Horus resolves itself into a male and female principle. Osiris and Horus being originally identical.”Google Scholar

page 74 note 1 Davis's Chinese, vol. ii. p. 62.Google Scholar

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page 75 note 2 I confess I have been unable to find any trace of the existence of the triangle, as an emblem of the Sun, in the portraits of these Deities, as given by Wilkinson and Bunsen, or in any of the hieroglyphic signs. But it is reasonable to suppose, that Le Noir and other Freemasons had some grounds for their assertion. The Obelisk was the sign of Ammon, and a sharp pointed Pyramid of Sothls, the dogstar, (vide Bunsen), but there is no Equilateral Triangle.

page 77 note 1 I have not observed the triangle in any of the engravings lately published by Mr. Layard, of the ruins of Nineveh, nor in Rich's work on Babylon and Persepolis.

page 78 note 1 “Other Deities are portions of the three gods, but in fact there is only one deity, ‘Mahá 'Atmá,’ the great soul. He is called the sun, for he is the Soul of all Beings, the Soul of what moves and of that which is fixed.”—Colebrooke's Trans. of Ved. p. 387, vol. viii.Google Scholar Asiatic Researches.