Zoological Mythology Volume I Part 7

[199] Pacya lakshma?a marica? mahacanisamasvanam sapadanugamayanta?

subahu? ca nicacara? etavadya maya pacya nilancanacayopamau asmin ksha?e samadhutavanilenambudaviva; _Ramay._ i. 33.

[200] cakre?eva vinirmukto va?rastaruvaropari; _Ramay._ iii. 35.

[201] Mayamacritya vipula? vatadurdinasa?kulam; _Ramay._ iii. 73.

[202] Te nik?ittabhu?askandhas kavandhak?iti ekadarcana? nadanto bhairavannadannapatanti sma danavas; _Mbh._ iii. 806.

[203] Atha tatra mahaghora? vik?ita? tam mahocchraya?

viv?iddhamacirogriva? kabandhamudare mukham romabhirnicita?

tiksh?airmahagirimivocchritam nilameghanibha? ghora?

meghastanitanisvanam mahata catipingena vipulenayatenaca ekenorasi dirghe?a nayanenatidarcina; _Ramay._ iii. 74.--The one yellowish eye of Kabandhas reminds us of Vaicrava?as with only one yellowish eye (_ekapingheksha?as_), his other eye having been burnt out by the G.o.ddess Parvati; _Ramay._ vii. 13.

[204] i. 49; ii. 7, _et pa.s.sim_.

[205] Cfr. the chapter on the Wolf.

[206] iii. 40, _et seq._

[207] Taru?adityasa?kacam taptakancanabhus.h.i.ta? raktambaradharam balam; _Ramay._ vi. 103.--Of the dress of Sita we read in another place that it shines "like the light of the sun upon the summit of a mountain" (Suryaprabheva cailagre tasya? kausheyamuttama?; iv. 58).

[208] _Ramay._ vi. 99.

[209] Cfr. Weber's _Ueber das Ramaya?a_, Berlin, 1870, p. 9.

[210] Ibid. p. 1.

[211] Viryaculka ca me kanya divyarupa gu?anvita bhutaladutthita purva? namna sitetyayoni?a; _Ramay._ i. 68.

[212] _Ramay._ vii. 104, 105.

[213] _Katha sarit sagaras_, iii. 17.

[214] i. 3888-3965.

[215] "Apriyanca na kartavya? k?ite cainam tya?amyaham," says ?aratkarus; _Mbh._ i. 1871.

[216] _Mbh._ i. 1870-1911.

[217] _Indische Studien_, vol. i. pp. 457-464, vol. ii. pp. 111-128.

[218] _History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature._

[219] Varu?as, the G.o.d of night, has, like the night, a double aspect; now he is the gloomy ocean, now the luminous milky ocean without a moon.

He is represented under the latter aspect in the 7th book of the _Ramaya?am_ (canto 27), in which the solar hero, having entered the celestial city of Varu?as, finds the cow which always yields milk (paya?

ksharantam satata? tatra ga? ca dadarca sa?), whence the white-rayed moon emerges, whence also the ambrosia and the nectar (yataccandra?

prabhavati citaracmi?--yasmadam?ita?utpanna? sudha capi).

[220] Cfr. the chapter on the Horse.

[221] In the _Ramaya?am_, i. 63, the deliverer is Indras, who, even in the _aitareya_, does much for cuna?cepas.

[222] Te?asa gharmadah sada--Prasadacatasambadha? nirmita?

vicvakarmana cobhita? padminibhicca kancanaicca mahadrumai? nilaya?

pacahastasya varu?asya mahatmana?; _Ramay._ iv. 43.

[223] i. 64.

[224] The Puranic-legend gives an instance of such another father in Hira?yakacipus, who, persecuting his own son Prahladas, tries to destroy him in several ways, and finally throws him into the sea; Prahladas praises Vish?us, and is delivered.--Cfr. _The Vish?u Pura?a_, translated by H. Wilson, i. 17-20. London: Trubner, 1864.

[225] Chap. xii. 13.

[226] i. 54-56.

[227] Etadeva hi me ratnametadeva hi me dhanam etadva hi sarvasvam etadeva hi ?ivitam; _Ramay._ 1. c.

[228] Nanada vividhan nadan yatha prav?ishi toyada?; _Ramay._ iii. 24.

[229] Dharayan mahisha? rupa? tiksh?acringo bhayavaha?; _Ramay._ iv.

9.--Further on, instead (iv. 46), the buffalo is said to be the brother of Dundubhis, and to have the strength of a thousand serpents (bala? nagasahasrasya dharayan) or elephants, for the word _nagas_ is equivocal.

[230] c?ingabhyamalikhan darpat taddvaram; _Ramay_, iv. 9.--Cfr. the two chapters which treat of the Horse and the Monkey.

[231] I do not insist upon this brahmanic G.o.d, because his legend is now popular.--Cfr., for the rest, for the relationship of K?ish?as with the cows, the cowherds, and the cow-maiden, the whole 5th book of the _Vish?u Purana_, translated by H. Wilson, and the _Gitagovi?das_ of Gayadevas, edidit La.s.sen, Bonn, 1836.

[232] Vicvarupo vai tvash?ra? purohito devanam asit svasriyo 'sura?am tasya tri?i cirshany asant--Indras tasya va?ram adaya cirshany achinad yat somapanam--Brahma-hatyam upa 'gri??at--Tam bhutany abhy akrocan brahmahann iti; _Taittiriya Sa?hita_, ed. Weber. ii. 5, 1-6.

[233] vii. 5, 28.

[234] Sa tasya khangena mahacira?si kapi? samas ta? suku??ala?

kruddha? praciccheda tada hanumans ?vash?ratma?asyeva ciransi cakrah; _Ramay._ vii. 50.

[235] _Ramay._ vii. 10.

[236] _Mbh._ i. 4990.--Cfr. also the three phallical and solar brothers of the story of cuna?cepas (him with the luminous tail or phallus).

[237] i. 4775.

[238] Bala? nagasahasrasya yasmin ku??e pratish?hita? yavatpivati balo 'ya? tavad asmai pradiyata?--ekocchvasattata? ku??a? dana?; _Mbh._ i.

5030, 5032.--A similar legend is found again in the third book of the _Mahabharatam_, under the form of an impenetrable forest, in which the king of the serpents envelops Bhimas.

[239] _Mbh._ i. 4777.

[240] i. 5300-5304.

[241] i. 680-828.

[242] Tam klicyamanamindro 'pacyatsa va?ra? pres?ayamasa--gacchasya brahma?asya sahayya? kurusveti--atha va?ram da??akash?hamanupravicya tadvilamadarayat; _Mbh._ i. 794-795.