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on their journey towards tlie Himalayas and Indra's heaven, she
accompanied them, and was the first to fall on the jonrney. See
Maha-bharata.
Draupadl's real name was Knsh?ia. She was called Draupadi
and Yajna-seni, from her father ; Parshati, from her grandfather
Pnshata; Panchall, from her country; Sairindhri, 'the
maid-servant '
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of the queen of Virata ; Panchaml, having five
husbands;' and Nita-yauvani, 'the ever-young.'
DRAVIDA. The country in which the Tamil language is
spoken, extending from Madras to Cape Comorin. According
to Manu, the people of this country were originally Kshatriyas,
but sank to the condition of $udras from the extinction of
sacred rites and the absence of Brahmans. As applied to the
classification of Brahmans it has a much wider application, em-
bracing Gujarat, Mahar-rashfra, and all the south.
D-RISHADWATL A common female name. i. The wife of
King Divo-dasa. 2. A river forming one of the boundaries of Brah-
with the Sarsuti.
mavarta, perhaps the Kagar before its junction
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DBOJVA. A bucket.' A Brahman so named from his
having been generated by his father, Bharadwaja, in a bucket.
He married Knpa, half-sister of Bhishma, and by her was father
of Aswatthaman. He was acharya, or teacher of the military
art, both to the Kaurava and PafltZava princes, and so he
was called Drowacharya. He had been slighted by Drupada,
king of Panchala, and became his enemy. Through the in-
strumentality of the Pa?itZavas he made Drupada prisoner, and
took from him half of his kingdom ; but he spared his life
and gave him back the other half of his country But the
old animosity rankled, and ended in the death of both. In the
great war Drowa sided with the Kauravas, and after the death
of Bhishma he became their commander-in-chief. On the fourth
day of his command he killed Drupada, and in his turn he was
unfairly slain in combat by Dhnshfo-dyumna, who had sworn
to avenge his father's death. In the midst of this combat
Drorca was told that his son was dead, which so unnerved him
that he laid down his arms and his opponent decapitated him.
But Dro?ia was a Brahman and an Acharya, and the crime of
killing him was enormous, so it is glossed over by the statement
that Drona " transported himself to heaven in a glittering state
like the sun, and Dhnshifa-dyumna decapitated merely his life-