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: - 180 pantheon in Japan where he is known as Gat-ten. He is also
depicted in the group of the Juni-ten. In Indian Buddhism
Candra is regarded as one of the nine planets. The
Nispannayoq膩 Vati describes Candra as riding on a swan.
He is white in colour and holds in his right and left hands
the discs of the moon or lotuses.
The Raveda, the Atharvaveda and the Brahmanas
describe Candra as one of the "Eight Dikp膩las". The Visnu-
dharmottara clearly describes him as four armed and as
possessing a white body and as wearing white garments he is
decorated with various ornaments. He should sit on a chariot,
which is drawn by ten horses. He is the presiding deity
of all stars,
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A strange similarity in this concept of heavenly
bodies is to be found in the Japanese ideas also. In the
Seishukubu, Soma or Candra, as one of the heavenly body, is
known as Getsu-yo. The illustrations of the "moon" or
"Candra" are very rate in India both in Brahmanical as well
as in Buddhist sculpture. In Japan, the Dainichi-ky枚-so
the Sonsh艒-Bucch艒-Shu-Yuga-Kigi, the Shosetsu-Fud艒-Ki, the
Kong艒-kai-Shichi-Sh奴 describe the forms and features of
Gat-ten. These texts describe the deity as generally riding
upon three ducks. He has red hairs and his right hand holds
a stick with a crescent at the extreme top of the stick.
The deity is popularly represented in the Juni-ten group.