ORIENTAL SERIES.

2i8 NAND1NINARADA.
NANDINl. The cow of plenty belonging to the sageVasishtfha,
said to have heen born of Surabhi, the cow of plenty that
was produced at the churning of the ocean.
NAKDI-PURA^A. See Puram.
NAISTDISA, NANDISWARA. 'Lord of Nandi.' A title of
Siva. It is related in the Ramayana that Ravam went to the
Sara-vana, the birthplace of Karttikeya, and on his way through
the mountains he beheld " a formidable, dark, tawny-coloured
dwarf called NandL-wara, who was a follower of Maha-deva, or
rather that deity himself in another body. This being desired
Ravana to halt, as Siva was sporting in the mountain, and no
one, not even a god, could pass. Ravawa asked derisively who
Siva was, and laughed contemptuously at Nandiswara, who had
the face of a monkey. Nandiswara retorted that monkeys hav-
ing the same shape as himself and of similar energy should be
produced to destroy Ravam's race. In reply to this menace,
Rava?ia threatened to pull up the mountain by its roots and let
Siva know his own danger. So he threw his arms round the
mountain and lifted it up, which made the hosts of Siva tremble
and Parvati quake and cling to her husband Siva then pressed
down the mountain with his great toe, and crushed and held
fast the arms of Ravawa, who uttered a loud cry which shook
all creation. Ravar&a's friends counselled him to propitiate Siva,
and he did so for a thousand years with hymns and weeping.
Siva then released him, and said that his name should be Ravana
from the cry (ram) which he had uttered. The origin of this
on the name
story is sufficiently manifest, it has been built up
Ravafta 3 to the glory of Siva, by a zealous partisan of that deity.
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ISTARA. Man.' The original eternal man.
NARADA. A .ffishi to whom some hymns of th6 .ffig-veda
are ascribed. He is one of the Prajapatis, and also one of the
seven great Jfeshis. The various notices of him are somewhat
inconsistent. The ^tg-veda describes him as "of the Kanwa
family." Another authority states that he sprang from the
forehead of Brahma, and the Vishnu Purana makes him a son
of Kasyapa and one of Daksha's daughters. The Maha-bharata
and some PuraTias state that he frustrated the scheme "which
Daksha had formed for peopling the earth, and consequently
incurred that patriarch's curse to enter again the womb of a
woman and be born. Daksha. however, relented at the solici-