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of the doctrines expounded in the Bhagavad-gita." CocJcburn
Thomson.
Colebrooke's Essays are the great authorities on Hindu philo-
sophy. Ballantyne has translated many of the original aphorisms,
and he, Cockburn Thomson, Hall, Banerjea, and others have
written on the subject.
DARTJKA. Krishna's charioteer, and his attendant in his
last days.
DAtfA-KUMARA-CHARITA. 'Tales of the ten princes/
Sil D&ndi. It is one of the few Sanskrit works written in
by
prose, but its style is so studied and elaborate that it is classed
as a Kavya or poem. The tales are stones of common life, and
display a low condition of morals and a corrupt state of society.
The text has been printed with a long analytical introduction
by H. H. "Wilson, and again in Bombay by Buhler. There is an
abridged translation by Jacobs, also a translation in French by
Fauche, and a longer analysis in vol. iv. of Wilson's works.
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DA^AISrANA. Ten faced. 7 A name of Bavarau
DA&A-BATHA. A prince of the Solar race, son of Aja, a de-
scendant of Ikshwaku, and king of Ayodhya. He had three wives,
but being childless, he performed the sacrifice of a horse, and,
according to the Bamayana, the chief queen, ELausalya, remained
in close contact with the slaughtered horse for a night, and the
other two queens beside her. Four sons were then born to him
from his three wives. Kausalya bore Kama, Kaikeyi gave birth
to Bharata, and Su-mitra bore Lakshmana and ^atru-ghna. Kama
partook of half the nature of Vislmu, Bharata of a quarter, and
the other two shared the remaining fourth. The Ramayafla, in
explanation of this manifestation of Vishwu, says that he had
promised the gods to become incarnate as man for the destruction
of Ravawa. He chose Dasa-ratha for his human parent; and
when that king was performing a second sacrifice to obtain progeny,
he came to him out of the fire as a glorious being, and
gave him a vessel full of nectar to administer to his wives.
Dasa-ratha gave half of it to Kausalya, and a fourth each to
Su-mitra and KaikeyL They all in consequence became preg-
nant, and their offspring partook of the divine nature according
to the portion of the nectar each had drunk. There were several
others of the name. See Eama-chandra
DA$AEHA, DltfABHA. Prince of the Dasarhas, a title of
Krishna. The Dasarhas were a tribe of Yadavaa