ORIENTAL SERIES.

HEMA-CHANDRAHIRANYAKSHA. 1*1
the sacrifice, whose colour is that of gold, of whom the Vedaa
and the sacrifices are the substance and the gods the soul ;
when he respired, charming words came forth from his nostrils."
HEMA-CHANDBA. Author of a good Sanskrit vocabulary,
printed under the superintendence of Colebrooke.
HEMADBI. ' The golden mountain/ i.e., Meru.
HEMA-KT3TA. c
Golden peak.' A chain of mountains re-
presented as lying north of the Himalayas, between them and
Mount Meru.
HLDIMBA (mas.), HLOIMBA (fern.).
who had yellow eyes and a horrible aspect.
A powerful Asura,
He was a cannibal,
and dwelt in the forest to which the Pan&vas retired after the
burning of their house. He had a sister named Hi&nba, whom
he sent to lure the PaTz^avas to him; but on meeting with Bhima,
she fell in love with him, and offered to carry him away to
safety on her back. Bhima refused, and while they were parleying,
HicKmba came up, and a terrible fight ensued, in which
Bhima killed the monster. Hidiniba was at first much terrified
and fled, but she returned and claimed Bhima for her husband
By his mother's desire Bhima married her, and by her had a
eon named Ghafotkacha,
HIMACHALA, HIMADBI. The Himalaya mountains.
HIMAYAT. The personification of the Himalaya mountains,
husband of Mena or Menaka, and father of Uma and Ganga.
HIBA.ZVTA-GABBHA,
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Golden egg' or golden womb/
In the J?ig-veda Hiranya-garbha " is said to have arisen in the
beginning, the one lord of all beings, who upholds heaven
and earth, who gives life and breath, whose command even the
gods obey, who is the god over all gods, and the one animating
principle of their being." According to Mama, Hirawya-garbha
was Brahma, the first male, formed by the undiscernible eternal
First Cause in a golden egg resplendent as the sun.
"
Having
continued a year in the egg, Brahma divided it into two parts
by his mere thought, and with these two shells he formed the
heavens and the earth \ and in the middle he placed the sky,
the eight regions, and the eternal abode of the waters." See
BrahmsL
HIRA^TAKSHA. '
Golden eye/ A Daitya who dragged the
earth to the depths of the ocean. He was twin-brother of Hira*
,
and was killed "by Yishnu in the Boar incarnation.