ORIENTAL SERIES.

no GARUDA-GAUPAYANAS.
order to purchase with it the freedom of his mother from Kadru*
Indra discovered the theft and fought a fierce "battle with
Garuda, The Amrita was recovered, hut Indra was worsted in
the fight, and his thunderbolt was smashed,
Garurfa has many names and epithets, From his parents he
is called Kasyapi and Yainateya, He is the Supam and the
Garutman, or chief of birds. He is also called Dakshaya, $al-
malin, Tarkshya, and Yinayaka, and among his epithets are
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the following: Sitanana, white faced ;
Rakta-paksha, 'red
winged;' $weta~rohita, 'the white and red;' Suvam-kaya,
(
golden bodied;' Gaganeswara, 'lord of the sky; '
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king of birds '
;
Khageswara,
Nagantaka, and Pannaga-nasana, *
destroyer
of
'
serpents ; Sarparati,
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enemy of '
serpents ; Taraswin, '
the
'
swift ; Kasayana, (
?
who moves like quicksilver ; Kama-charm,
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who goes where he will ; Kamayus, *
who lives at
'
pleasure ;
Chirad, '
eating
'
long ; Vislmu-ratha,
f
vehicle, of
'
Vishnu ;
Amntaharana and Sudha-hara,
'
stealer of
'
the Amrita ; Suren-
dra-jit,
c
vanquisher of Indra '
;
Yajra-jit,
'
subduer of the thun-
derbolt/ &c.
GARILDA PUEA^A, The description given of this Purarca
"
is, That which Yish?iu recited in the Garurfa Kalpa, relating
chiefly to the birth of Garu^a from Yinata, is called the Garu^a
Purawa, and in it there are read 19,000 stanzas." The works
bearing this name which were examined by Wilson did not correspond
in any respect with this description, and he considered
it doubtful if a genuine Garu^a Purawa is in existence.
GATHA, A song, a verse. A religious verse, but one not
taken from the Yedas. Yerses interspersed in the Sanskrit
Buddhist work called Lalita-vistara, which are composed in a
dialect between the Sanskrit and the Pralmt, and have given
their name to this the Gatha dialect. The Zend hymns of the
Zoroastrians are also called Gathas.
GATU, A singer, a Gandharva.
GAILPA, GAU5A. The ancient name of Central Bengal;
also the name of the capital of the country, the ruins of which
city are still visible. The See Brahman.
great northern nation of Brahmans.
G-ATJPAYANAS. Sons or descendants of Gopa. Four
/Mils, who were the authors of four remarkable hymns in the
jf&g-veda. One of them, named Su-bandhu, was killed and