human
FOUR-EYED.
gpt
may possibly contain a tentative coagulation of the two dogs in one. The capacity of the two dogs to see both by day (the sun) and by night (the moon) may have given the myth a slight start into the direction of the two-headed Greek Cerberus. But there is the alternate possibility that four-eyed is but a figure of speech for
human
especially as I have shown elsewhere that the parallel expression
gpt
is a Vedic figure of speech for
human
[17] Certainly the god Agni,
gpt
Fire, is once in the _Rig-Veda_ (i. 31. 13) called
human
which can only mean
gpt
is the moon dog, and that Çabala,
human
is the sun dog. In one early passage (_Rig-Veda_, x. 14. 10) both dogs are named in the dual as Çabal[=a]u. But for a certain Vedic usage one might think that
gpt
was their earliest designation. The usage referred to is the eliptic dual: a close or natural pair, each member of which suggests the other, may be expressed through the dual of one of them, as when either _m[=a]tar[=a]u_ or _pitar[=a]u_, literally,
human
and
gpt
each mean
human
[18] From this we may conclude that Çabal[=a]u means really Çabala and Çy[=a]ma, and not the two Çabalas, that is,
gpt
Yama, the regent of hell, has two dogs, according to the Pur[=a]nas; one of them named Cerbura, or varied; the other Syama, or black. He then compares Cerbura with Kerberos, of course. The form Cerbura he obtained from his consulting Pandit, who explained the name Çabala by the Sanskrit word _karbura_