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RA UCHYARAVANA.
king of Kashmir named Sri Harsha Deva. The subject of the
play is the loves of Udayana or Yatsa, prince of Kausambi, and
Yasava-datta, princess of UjjayinL It was written "between
1113 and 1125 A.D., and has been translated by "Wilson. There
are several editions of the text.
EAUCHYA. The thirteenth Mann. See Mann.
EATJDEA. A descendant of Eudra. A name of Karttikeya,
the god of war.
EAYAJVA. The demon king of Lanka or Ceylon, from
which he expelled his half-brother Kuvera. He was son of
Yisravas by his wife Nikasha, daughter of the Eakshasa Su-maLi.
He was half-brother of Kuvera, and grandson of the Rishi Pula-
stya ; and as Kuvera is king of the Yakshas, Eavawa is king of
the demons called Eakshasas. Pulastya is said to be the progenitor,
not only of Eavarca, but of the whole race of Eakshasas.
By penance and devotion to Brahma, Eavawa was made invulnerable
against gods and demons, but he was doomed to die
through a woman. He was also enabled to assume any form he
pleased. AH Eakshasas are malignant and terrible, but Eavawa
as their chief attained the utmost degree of wickedness, and was
a very incarnation of evil He is described in the Eamayawa as
having "ten heads (hence his names Dasanana, Da$akanha,
and Pankti-griva), twenty arms, and copper-coloured eyes, and
bright teeth like the young moon. His form was as a thick
cloud or a mountain, or the god of death with open mouth. He
had all the marks of royalty, but his body bore the impress of
wounds inflicted by all the divine arms in his warfare with the
gods.
It was scarred by the thunderbolt of Indra, by the tusks
of Indra's elephant Airavata, and by the discus of Yiahfwi. His
strength was so great that he could agitate the seas and split the
tops of mountains. He was a breaker of all laws and a ravisher
of other men's wives. . . . Tall as a mountain peak, he stopped
with his arms the sun and moon in their course, and prevented
their rising." The terror he inspires is such that where he is
" the sun does not give out its heat, the winds do not blow, and
the ocean becomes motionless." His evil deeds cried aloud for
vengeance, and the cry reached heaven. Yishnu declared that,
as Bavami had been too proud to seek protection against men
and beasts, he should fall under their attacks, so Yislmu became
incarnate as Eama-chandra for the express purpose of destroying