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Vedanga, one of the Adityas; a name of
Surya.

Venamaly, a name of Narayana.

Vicramadittya or Vikramaditya, a learned monarch and an astronomer, whose capital, Oujein, was about his time overwhelmed by a violent convulsion of nature. Hindu legends thus whimsically account for that circumstance, together with his origin and birth; as described in the 6th vol. of the Asiatic Researches.

"A certain deity, named Gundrufsein, was condemned for an offence committed against Indra, to appear on earth in the shape of an ass; but on his entreaty he was allowed, as a mitigation of his punishment, to lay aside that body in the night, and take that of a man. His incarnation took place at Ougein, during the reign of a rajah named Sundersein, and the ass, when arrived at maturity, accosting the rajah in a human voice, proclaimed his own divine origin, and demanded his daughter in marriage. Having, by certain prodigies, overcome the scruples of the rajah, he obtained the object of his wishes. All day, in the form of an ass, he lived in the stable; but when night came on, laying aside the ass's skin, and assuming the form of a handsome and accomplished young prince, he went into the palace, and enjoyed, till morning, the conversation of his beauteous bride. In process of time the daughter of the rajah became pregnant, and as her husband, the ass, was deemed incapable of producing such an event in one of the human species, her chastity was suspected. Her father questioned her on the subject, when she explained the mys. tery. At night the rajah concealed him

self, and having witnessed the metamorphosis, set the ass's skin on fire to prevent his son-in-law from reassuming that form. Although rejoiced at his liberation, Gundrufsein foresaw the vengeance of Indra, and warned his wife to flee; telling her that his earthly tenement being consumed, he must return to heaven, and that the city would be overwhelmed with destruction. The princess fled to a village at some distance, where she brought forth a son, named Vicramadittya; and a shower of earth falling from heaven, buried the city and its inhabitants."

Vina, the Hindu lyre, formed of a flat piece
of wood with strings, having a gourd at one
end, and sometimes one at both ends, seen
in the plates in the hands of Nareda,
Suraswati, and the celestial choristers.
(See fig. 11. pl. 32.)

Vindhya Vasini, a form of Durga or Par-
vati, to whom is ascribed the destruction
of many giants. She is represented sitting
on a lion, with four or eight arms.
Vira Badra, or Ehr Badr, p. 74.
Viraj, p. 100.

Virupacsha, a name of Siva.
Vishnu, p. 11.

Vismamitra, one of the Rishis, and the Guru
of Rama Chandra. He was seduced by
Rembha while engaged in austerities, at
the instigation of Indra.
Viswakarma, p. 6.

Vitruha or Vitrahan, a name of Indra. He
who slew the giant Vitruha or Vitra.
Viweswat, a name of Surya.

Viweswati, the son of Surya, called the child of the sun, and the founder of the

the race of Hindu rajahs, termed the Surya bans, or children of the sun.

the riches of the avaricious worshippers of the god of wealth.

Vogra Tapasu, one of the most severe of the Yajar, or Yajush Veda, one of the four
Hindu austerities. (See p. 251.).
Voiragees, religious mendicants of the sect
of Vishnu.

Vridgnani Kaumali, a form assumed by Lakshmi as the consort of Vishnu in the form of Buddha, to delude Divodasa. Like her lord, she taught to the females of Kashi the doctrines of self-existent nature,

and the abolition of castes. By these and

other artifices, she seduced the women to counsel the men of that kingdom to abandon the worship of the Vedas for the atheistical religion preached by Vishnu, under the delusive form of Buddha. Vrihaspati, or Brishput, p. 133. Vrisha, the holy, a name of Indra. Vyagra Yahi, a name of Devi when mounted on a tiger.

W.

Waghacha-Kuniver, worshipped by the Bheels, against the ravages of wild beasts. Wittoba, p. 53.

Y.

Yakshas, or Yakshus, attendants of Kuvera,

Vedas, p. 138. Yama, p. 112.

Yamuna (The), or Jumna, one of the sacred rivers of the Hindus. It joins the Ganges at Allahabad; also the sister of Yama, Yasuda, the wife of Nanda, or Ananda, and the foster mother of Krishna.

Yoginis (called the fatal sisters): they are

sixty-four in number, and follow the Sactis in the field of battle, each holding in her hands a patera of a skull to receive the blood of the slain, on which they feast. Yogun. (See Jogun.) Yoni (The), p. 174.

Yoogadya, a form of Durga, much worshipped in some places; she is represented with her arms, sitting on a lion. Sanguinary sacrifices are offered to her; and, according to Mr. Ward, 100,000 people assemble at a place in Burdwan on the occasion of the annual festival in honour of her.

Yudishtra, one of the five Pandus brethren. (See Pandus.)

who wander about the world to preserve Zennaar, p. 154.

Z.

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