ORIENTAL SERIES.

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Dasa-ratha, and it was J&shya-sringa who performed that sacri-
fice for Dasa-ratha which brought about the birth of Kama.
JS/TU-PAENA. A king of Ayodhya, and son of Sarva-
kama, into whose service Nala entered after he had lost his
kingdom. He was "skilled profoundly in dice."
'
.B/TU-SAimAEA. The round of the seasons.' A poem
attributed to Kali-dasa. This poem was published by Sir "W.
Jones, and was the first Sanskrit work ever printed.
There are
other editions. It has been translated into Latin by Bohlen.
BOHLZVL i. Daughter of Kasyapa and Surabhi, and mother
of horned cattle, including Kama-dhenu, the cow which grants
desires. 2. Daughter of Daksha and fourth of the lunar as-
terisms, the favourite wife of the moon. 3. One of the wives
of Yasu-deva, the father of Krishna and mother of Bala-rama.
She was burned with her husband's corpse at Dwaraka. 4.
Krishna himself also had a wife so called, and the name is
common.
EOHITA,
'
Bed.' A red horse a horse of the sun or
;
of fire. i. A deity celebrated in the Atharva-veda, probably
a form of fire or the sun. 2. Son of King Haris-chandra. He
is also called Kohitaswa. The fort of Bohtas is said to derive
its name from him. See Haris-chandra.
KOMA-HAESHAIVA. See Loma-harshawa,
EUDBA* 'A howler or roarer; terrible.' In the Yedas
Eudra has many attributes and many names. He is the howl-
ing terrible god, the god of storms, the father of the Eudras
or Maruts, and is sometimes identified with the god of fire.
On the one hand he is a destructive deity who brings diseases
upon men and cattle, and upon the other he is a beneficent
deity supposed to have a healing influence. These are the germs
which afterwards developed into the god $iva. It is worthy of
note that Eudra is first called Mahirdeva in the "White Yajur-
veda. As applied to the god $iva, the name of Eudra generally
designates him in his destructive character. In the Bfihad-
aranyaka Upanishad the Eudras are " ten vital breaths (prana)
with the heart (manas) as eleventh." In the Yishnu Purana
the god Eudra is said to have sprung from the forehead of
Brahma, and at the command of that god to have separated his
nature into male and female, then to have multiplied each of
these into eleven persons, some of which were white and gentle,