midday
_ -LSB- 1 -RSB- Being actually smeared with ashes . The god is of course Shiwa , and the allusion is to his _ Ardhanári _ , or half male , half female form . There lived of old , on the edge of the desert , a rájá of the race of the sun . And like that sun reflected at midday in the glassy depths of the Mánasa lake , he had an image of himself in the form of a son -LSB- 2 -RSB- , who exactly resembled him in every particular , except age . And he gave him the name of Aja , for he said : He is not another , but my very self that has conquered death , and passed without birth straight over into another body . Moreover , he will resemble his ancestor , and the god after whom I have called him Aja -LSB- 3 -RSB- . So as this son grew up , his father 's delight in him grew greater also .