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Show Idols Washed in from Sea Plague Indian Magistrates BOMBAY, INDIA. Four idols were washed ashore on the Bombay Bom-bay beach. They were picked up by Hindu pandits, set under a pipal tree and worshipped. Three of them were 18 inches in height and the fourth 9 inches. The first was the elephant-headed god, Oanapati, the awarder of all luck; the second the monkey god, Hanuman, who fought under Rama for the recovery of his wife, Sita, from the demon king in Ceylon, Ravana; the third of Nandi, the bull on whom god Shiva rides, and the fourth has 'not yet been identified. iden-tified. None could say how they came to be washed ashore, but they are giving headaches to two officials the curator who wants them for the museum if no one claims them, and the magistrate-collector who must accord permission if the people peo-ple want to worship them. |