ORIENTAL SERIES.

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DHARMA-SAVARNIDHRISHTA-KETU.
DHAEMA-SAYAE^H. The eleventh Marni. See Manu.
DHAEMA-StJTEAS. The Samayacharika Sutras are so
called because they had among them maxims of a legal nature.
DHAEMA-YYADHA. 'The pious huntsman,' This man
is represented in the Maha-bharata as living by selling the flesh
of boars and buffaloes, and yet as being learned in the Yedas
and in all the knowledge of a Brahman. This is accounted for
by his having been a Brahman in a former birth, and cursed
to this vile occupation for having wounded a Brahman when
hunting.
DHATJ?/.
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Maker, creator/ In the later hymns
of the
fia'g-veda, Dhatn is a deity of no very defined powers and func-
tions, but he is described as operating in the production of life
and the preservation of health. He promotes generation, brings
about matrimony, presides over domestic life, cures diseases,
heals broken bones, &c. He is said to " have formed the sun,
moon, sky, earth, air, and heaven as before." He appears also
as one of the Adityas, and this character he still retains. In
the later mythology he is identified with Prajapati or Brahma
the creator ; and in this sense of " maker " the term is used as
an epithet of Vishnu and Krishna. Sometimes he is a son of
Brahma.
DHAUMYA. i. The younger brother of Devala and family
priest of the Panrfavas, There are several others of the same
name. 2. Author of a work on law.
DHENUKA. A demon killed by Bala-rama. Krishna and
Bala-rama, as boys, picked some fruit in a grove belonging to
Dhenuka, when he took the form of an ass, and running to the
spot "began to kick Bala-iama. The young hero seized him by
the heels, whirled him round till he was dead, and cast his
carcase on to the top of a palm-tree. Several of his companions
who ran to his assistance were treated in the same way, so
that " the trees were laden with dead asses,"
DHJJ/SHTA-DYUMNA. Brother of Draupadl, and com-
mander-in-ehief of the Panc?ava armies. He killed, somewhat un-
fairly in combat, Drona, who had beheaded his father, and he in
his turn was killed by Drona's son, Aswatthaman, who stamped
him to death with his feet as he lay asleep.
DH72/SHTA-KETTJ. i. A son of Dhn'shta-dyumna, 2,
A son of #isu-pala, king of Chedi, and an ally of the Panrfa-