ORIENTAL SERIES.

tation of Brahma,
NARADANARAKA. 219
and consented that Narada should he horn
again of Brahma and one of Daksha's daughters ; he was hence
called Brahma and Deva-brahma. In some respects he hears a
resemblance to Orpheus. He is the inventor of the viwa (lute),
and was chief of the Gandharvas or heavenly musicians. He
also went down to the infernal regions (Patala), and was de-
lighted with what he saw there. In later times he is connected
with the legend of Krishna. He warned Kansa of the imminent
incarnation of Vislmu, and he afterwards "became the friend and
associate of Krishna.
The Narada-pancha-ratra relates that Brahma advised his
son Narada to marry, hut ISFarada censured his father as a false
teacher, because devotion to Kn'shwa was the only true means
of felicity. Brahma then cursed Narada to lead a life of sen-
suality, in subjection to women, and ISTarada retorted the curse,
condemning Brahma to lust after his own daughter, and to
he an object unworthy of adoration. JSTarada has the appella-
tions, Kali-karaka, *
'
strife-maker ;
Kapi-vaktra, '
'
monkey-faced ;
Pisuna, 'messenger or spy.'
ISTarada was also one of the great writers upon law. His
text-book, called " Naradrya Dharma-sastra/' has been translated
into English by Dr. Jolly.
NAKADA PANCHA-KATEA. A ritualistic work of the
Yaishnavas. It has been printed in the Billiotheca Indicd.
NABADA-PURA.ZVA, JSTAEADIYA-PUEAJVA. "Where
Narada has described the duties which were observed in the
Brihat Kalpa, that is called the Naradlya, having 25,000
stanzas." But the only copy that Wilson analysed contained
not more than 3000 stanzas. There is another work called the
Bnlian or Great Naradlya, but this extends only to 3500 verses.
These Puranas, says Wilson, bear " no conformity to the defi-
nition of a PuraTia ; both are sectarial and modern compilations,
intended to support the doctrine of Bhakti or faith in Vishmi."
They are modern compositions, possibly even of so late a date as
the sixteenth or seventeenth century. One of them refers to
the " killers of cows " and " contemners of the gods," meaning,
no doubt, tho Mohaminadans, so that the passage would seem
to have been written after India was in their hands.
NABAKA. Hell a place of torture to which the souls of
the wicked are sent. Manu enumerates twenty-one hells :