ORIENTAL SERIES.

266 RA VIRIBHU.
EAYL The sun. See Surya*
EE.WUKA. Daughter of King Prasenajit or Eerau, wife of
Jamad-agni, and mother of Parasu-rama. A sight of the connubial
endearments of King Chitra-ratha and his wife inspired her with
impure thoughts, and her husband, perceiving that she had
"fallen from perfection," desired her sons to kill her. Eumawwat,
Su-shena, and Yasu, the three seniors, declined, and
their father cursed them so that they became idiots. Parasu-
rama, the fourth son, cut off her head, which act so gratified his
father that Jamad-agni promised him whatever hlessings he de-
sired. Among other things, Parasu-rama asked that his mother
might be brought back to life in ignorance of her death and in
perfect purity. He also desired that his brothers might be
restored to their senses. All this Jamad-agni bestowed. She
was also called Konkana.
EEYA. The JSTarmada river.
EEYA. i. Wife of Kar/za. 2. A name of EatL
EEYAJNTA. A son of Surya and Sanjna. He is chief of
the Guhyakas, and is also called Haya-vahana.
EEYATL Daughter of King Eaivata and wife of Bala-rama
She was so beautiful that her father, thinking no one upon earth
Brahma to consult him about
worthy of her, repaired to the god
a husband. Brahma delivered a long discourse on the glories of
Yishrai, and directed Eaivata to proceed to Dwaraka, where a
portion of Yislmu was incarnate in the person
of Bala-rama,
Ages had elapsed while Eaivata was in heaven without his
knowledge. When he returned to earth, " he found the race of
men dwindled in stature, reduced in vigour, and enfeebled in
intellect." He went to Bala-rama and gave him Eevati, but
that hero, " beholding the damsel of excessively lofty height, he
shortened her with the end of his ploughshare, and she became
hi? wife," She had two sons, Eevati is said tp. have taken
part with her husband in his drinking bouts.
JSIBHAYAS. See /fcblms.
$/BHU. Clever, skilful/ An epithet used for Indra,
Agni, and the Adityas. In the Puramc mythology, JKbhu is a
" son of the supreme Brahma, who, from his innate disposition,
was of a holy character and acquainted with true wisdom."
His pupil was Nidagha, a son of Pulastya, and he took especial
interest in his instruction, returning to him after two intervals