ORIENTAL SERIES.

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DASA-RUPAKADEVAKI,
DASA-RtlPAKA An early treatise on dramatic com-
position. It has been published by Hall in the Bibliotheca
Indica.
DASAS. *
Slaves.' Tribes and people of India who opposed
the progress of the intrusive Aryans.
DASRAS.
'
Beautiful.' The elder of the two Aswins, or in
the dual (Dasrau), the two Aswins.
DASYUS. In the Vedas they are evil beings, enemies of the
gods and men. They are represented as being of a dark colour,
and probably were the natives of India who contended with the
immigrant Aryans. It has, however, been maintained that they
were hermits and ascetics of Aryan race. In later times they
are barbarians, robbers, outcasts, who, according to some autho-
rities, descended from Viswamitra.
DATTAKA-CHANDRIKA. A treatise on the law of adop^
tion by Devana Bha^a. Translated by Sutherland,
DATTAKA-MlMANSA. A treatise on the law of adoption
by Nanda Paraftta, Translated by Sutherland.
DATTAKA-SIEOMAJVX A digest of the principal treatises
on the law of adoption. Printed at Calcutta.
DATTATREYA. Son of Atri and Anasuya, A Brahman
saint in whom a portion of Brahma, Vishnu, and $iva, or more
particularly Vishnu, was incarnate. He had three sons, Soma,
Datta, and Dur-vasas, to whom also a portion of the divine
essence was transmitted. He was the patron of Karta-virya, and
gave him a thousand arms.
DAYA-BHAGA. 'Law of inheritanca' This title belongs
especially to the treatise of Jlmuta Vahana, current in Bengal
Translated by Colebrooke.
DAYA-KRAMA-SANGRAHA, A treatise on the law of
inheritance as current in Bengal, by Sri Krishna Tarkalankara.
Translated by "Wynch.
DAYA-TATWA, A treatise on the law of inheritance as
current in Bengal, by Raghunandana Bha^acharya.
DEVA (Nom. Devas=Deus, from the root D'vo, to shine.)
God, A deity. The gods are spoken of as thirty-three in num-
ber, eleven for each of the three worlds.
DEVAKA, Father of Devaki and brother of Ugrasena.
DEYAKl Wife of Yasu-deva, mother of Knshna and
eousin of Kansa, She is sometimes called an incarnation of