ORIENTAL SERIES.

134 JARA T-KARU-JA TAYU.
Krishna, who had killed Kansa, the husband of two of Jarasandha's
daughters. He besieged Mathura, and attacked Krishna
eighteen times, and was as often defeated ; but Krishna was so
weakened that he retired to Dwaraka. Jara-sandha had many
kings in captivity, and when Knshna returned from Dwaraka,
he, with Bhlma and Arjuna, went to Jararsandha's capital for
the purpose of slaying their enemy and liberating the kings.
Jara-sandha refused to release the kings, and accepted the alter-
native of a combat, in which he was killed by Bhima.
JARAT-KABU. An ancient sage who married a sister of the
great serpent Yasuki, and was father of the sage Astika.
JARITA A certain female bird of the species called $arn-
gika, whose story is told in the Maha-bharata. The saint
Manda-pala, who returned from the shades because he had no
son, assumed the form of a male bird, and by her had four sons,
He then abandoned her. In the conflagration of the Kha,7?