ORIENTAL SERIES.

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his body was placed in the stellar sphere, the upper parts, re-
presented "by a dragon's head, being the ascending node, and the
lower parts, represented by a dragon's tail, being Ketn the de-
scending node. Rahu wreaks his vengeance on the sun and
moon by occasionally swallowing them. The Yishnu Purafra
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says, Eight black horses draw the dusky chariot of Rahu, and
once harnessed are attached to it for ever. On the Parvans
(nodes, or lunar and solar eclipses) Rahu directs his course from
the sun to the moon, and back again from the moon to the sun,
The eight horses of the chariot of Ketu, swift as the wind, are
of the dusky red colour of lac, or of the smoke of burning
l
'
straw." Rahu is called Abhra-pisacha, the demon of the sky ;
Bhara?ii-bhu, 'born from the asterism Bharam;' Graha, 'the
seizer;' Kabandha, 'the headless.'
RAIBHYA, A sage who was the friend of Bharadwaja.
He had two sons, Arvavasu and Paravasu. The latter, under
the curse of Bharadwaja, killed his father, mistaking him for an
antelope, as he was walking about at night
covered with an
antelope's skin, Arvavasu retired into the forest to obtain by
devotion a remission of his brother's guilt "When he returned,
Paravasu charged him with the crime, and he again retired to
his devotions. These so pleased the gods that they drove away
Paravasu and restored Raibhya to life. See Yava-krlta,
RAIYATA. i. Son of Reva or Revata, Also called Kakud-
min. He had a very lovely daughter named Revati, and not deem-
ing any mortal worthy of her, he went to Brahma to consult
him. At the command of that god he bestowed her upon Bala-
rama. He was king of Anarta, and built the city of Kusasthall
or Dwaraka in Gujarat, which he made his capital 2. One of
the Manus (the fifth).
RAJYATA, RAIYATAKA, The range that branches off
from the western portion of the Yindhya towards the north,
extending nearly to the Jumna,
RAJA-GJSjfHA. The capital of Magadha, Its site is stall
traceable in the hills between Patna and Gaya.
RAJANYA. A Yedic designation of the Kshatriya caste.
RAJARSHI (Raja-nshi). A JMshi or saint of the regal
caste ; a Eshatriya who, through pure and holy life on earth,
has been raised as a saint or demigod to India's heaven, aa
Yiswa-mitra, Puru-ravas, &