Hessonite is a variety of Grossular garnet.
Its color is usually brown, yellow - brown, orange red, orange, orange yellow. The orange hue is due to magnesium Mn2+.
In India, men worship a god with nails in orange yellow stones. This stone, "gomedhaka" in Sanskrit, is the Hessonite.
To learn more about the mineralogy of Hessonite, see Mindat.org->
