ORIENTAL SERIES.

So DAMODARADARSANA.
suade Mm, but he insisted on fighting.
Nara then took a hand-
fill of straws, and using them as missiles, they whitened all the
air, and penetrated the eyes, ears, and noses of the assailants,
until DambhodMiava fell at Nara's feet and begged for peace.
DAMODAEA. A name given to Knslma because his fostermother
tried to tie him up with a rope (dama) round his belly
(udara).
DAKAVAS. Descendants from Danu by the sage Kasyapa.
They were giants who warred against the gods. See Daityas.
D-AJV23A-DHAEA. 'The rod-bearer/ A title of Yama, the
god of death.
DAJVjPATCA. The aranya or forest of Dan^aka, lying between
the Godavarl and Nfarrnada. It was of vast extent, and some
passages of the Eamayana represent it as beginning immediately
south of the Yamuna. This forest is the scene of many of Eama
and Sita's adventures, and is described as "a wilderness over
which separate hermitages are scattered, while wild beasts and
Eakshasas everywhere abound."
DANTA-VAKTEA, A Danava king of Karusha and son of
Vnddha-sarma. He took a side against Knshna, and was even-
tually killed by him.
DAKU. A Diluava, Also the mother of the Duuavas. The
demon Kabandha (q.v.).
DAEADA. A country in the Hindu Kush, bordering on
Kashmir. The people of that country, " the Durds, are still
where they were at the date of the text (of the Vishmi Purawa)
and in the days of Strabo and Ptolemy not exactly, indeed, at
the sources of the Indus, but along its course above the Hima-
laya, just before it descends to India." Wilson.
Tearer. J
Eakshasas and other destructive
DAEBAS. f
demons.
DAEDUEA. Name of a mountain in the south ; it is
associated with the Malaya mountain in the Maha-bharata.
DAEx^ANA. 'Demonstration.' The Shad-dar&mas or six
demonstrations, Le., the six schools of Hindu philospphy. All
Dhese schools have one starting-point, ex nihilo nihiljit; and all
have one and the same final object, the emancipation of the soul
from future birth and existence, and its absorption into the
supreme
soul of the universe. These schools are :
i. Nyaya, founded by the sage Gotama. The word nyaya