ORIENTAL SERIES.

112 GHA TA-KARPARAGITA-GO VINDA.
attach to the text an import it did not at first possess, and have
converted it into a mystical propitiation of the spiritual origin
and essence of existence, or Brahma." It is considered so holy
that copyists often refrain from transcribing it.
The name given to 5Wfca-rupa (q.v.), Brahma's female half,
daughter, and consort, as " the declarer of sacred knowledge."
It is also applied to the consort of /Siva in the Hari-vansa.
GHATA-KARPAEA A poet, who was one of the " nine
gems " of the court of Yikrarnaditya. There is a short artificial
poem,. descriptive of the rainy season, bearing this name, which
has been translated into German by Dursch. The words mean
potsherds/ and form probably an assumed literary name.
GHATOTKACHA. A son of Bhlma by the Rakshasi
Hi^imba. He was killed in the great battle by Kama with the
fatal lance that warrior had obtained from Indra.
GHOSHA. It is said in the Veda that the Aswins " bestowed
a husband upon Ghosha growing old," and the explanatory
legend is that she was a daughter of Kakshivat, but being a
leper, was incapable of marriage. When she was advanced in
years the Aswins gave her health, youth, and beauty, so that she
obtained a husband.
GHJ?JTACHL An Apsaras or celestial nymph. She had
many amours with great sages and mortal men. She was mother
of ten sons by Raudraswa or BLusa-nabha, a descendant of Puru,
and the Brahma Yaivartta Purawa attributes the origin of some
of the mixed castes to her issue by the sage Yiswa-karman. The
Hari-vansa asserts that she had ten daughters as well as ten sons
by Raudraswa.
Kusa-nabha of
Another legend represents her as mother by
a hundred daughters, whom Yayu wished to
accompany him to the sky. They refused, and in his rage he
cursed them to become deformed; but they recovered their
natural shape and beauty, and were married to Brahma-datta,
king of Kampila.
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GIRI-JA. Mountain born. 7 See Devi,
A name of Parvati or Devi.
GIRI-VRAJA. A royal city in Magadha, identified with
Baja-gnha in Bihar.
GlTA, The Bhagavad-gita (q.v.).
GlTA-GOYINDA. A lyrical poem by Jaya-dava