ORIENTAL SERIES.

HINDU CLASSICAL DICTIONARY.
ABHASWARAS, A class of deities, sixty-four in number,
of whose nature little is known.
ABHIDHANA, A dictionary or vocabulary. There are
many such works. One of the oldest of them is the Abhidhdna,
raina-mala of Halayudha BhaSa (circa yth cent,), and one of
the best is the Alhidhana Chintd-mani of Hema-chandra, a Jaina
writer of celebrity (isth cent,). The former has been edited by
Aufrecht; the latter by Colebrooke and by Bohtlingk and Rieu
ABHIMANl Agni,
the eldest son of Brahma, By his
wife Swaha he had three sons, Pavaka, Pavamana, and Such!
"They had forty-fire sons, who, with the original son of Brahma
and his three descendants, constitute the forty-nine fires," See
Agni
ABHIMANYU. Son of Arjuna by his wife Su-bhadra, and
known by lihe metronymic Saubhadm He killed Lakshmana,
the son of Dur-yodhana, on the second day of the great battle
of the Maha-bharata, but on the thirteenth day he himself fell
fighting heroically against fearful odds. He was very hand-
some. His wife was Uttara, daughter of the Raja of Virata,
His son, Pankshit, succeeded to the throne of Hastinapura,
ABHIRA, ABHlRA. A cowherd ; according
offspring of a Brahman by
to Manu the
a woman of the Ambashftia or
medical tribe. A people located in the north of India along
the Indus, There has been a good deal of misapprehension
respecting this people. Hindu writers Lave described them as
living in the north and in the west, the quarter varying accord-
ing to the locality of the writer,
and translators have mked
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