ORIENTAL SERIES.

122 H1RANYA-KASIPUIDA.
HIKAATTA-KASIPTJ. '
Golden dress.' A Daitya who, ac-
cording to the Maha-bharata and the Puranas, obtained from $iva
the sovereignty of the three worlds for a million of years, and
persecuted his son Prahlada for worshipping Vishnu. He was
slain by Vishrra in the Nara-sinha, or man-lion incarnation. He
and Hiranyaksha were twin-brothers and chiefs of the Daityas.
HITOPAJDESA. '
Good advice.' The well-known collection
of ethical tales and fables compiled from the larger and older
work called Pancha-tantra. It has been often printed, and there
are several translations; among them is an edition by Johnson
of text, vocabulary, and translation.
HOT-HI. A priest who recites the prayers from the Rig-
veda,
H.RISHIKESA- A name of Krishna or Vishnu.
HtJWAS. According to Wilson, " the White Huns or Indo-
Scythians, who were established in the Panjab and along the
Indus at the commencement of our era, as we know from Arrian,
Strabo, and Ptolemy, confirmed by recent discoveries of their
coins/' and since still further confirmed by inscriptions and
additional coins. Dr. Fitzedward Hall says, "I am not pre-
pared to deny that the ancient Hindus, when they spoke of
the Hunas, intended the Huns. In the Middle Ages, however,
it is certain that a race called Huwa was understood by the
learned of India to form a division of the Kshatriyas." V. P.
ii 134.
HUN-DE5A. The country round Lake Manasarovara.
HUSHKA HUVISHKA. A Tushkara or Turki king, whose
name is mentioned in the Raja Tarangini as Hushka, which has
been found in inscriptions as Huvishka, and upon the corrupt
Greek coins as Oerki. He is supposed to have reigned just at
the commencement of the Christian era. See Kanishka.
IDA. In the J?ig-veda I^a is primarily food, refreshment, or
a libation of milk ; thence a stream of praise, personified as the
goddess of speech. She is called the instructress of Manu, and
frequent passages ascribe to her the first institution of the rules
of performing sacrifices. According to Sayawa, she is the presiding
goddess
over the earth. A legend in the Satapatha Brahmana
represents her as springing from a sacrifice which Manu performed
for the purpose of obtaining offspring. She was claimed
by Mitra-Varuna, but remained faithful to him who had pro-