ORIENTAL SERIES.

280 SANKHAYANA SAPTA-SA TL
his name. He is often coupled with Likhita, and the two seem
to have worked together.
SANKHAYANA. r. Name of a writer who was the author
of the Sankhayana Brahma^a of the Ji%-veda, and of certain
$rauta-sutras also called by his name. 2. He is the oldest
known writer on the ATS Erotica, and is author of the work
called Sankhayana Kama-sutra.
SANKHYA. A school of philosophy. See Darsana.
SANKHYA-DAB&AZVA. Kapila's aphorisms on the San-
khya philosophy. They have "been printed.
SANKHYA-KABIKA. A work on the Sankhya philosophy,
written by Iswara Kn'slma ; translated by Colebrooke
and Wilson.
SANKHYA-PKAVACHANA. A text-book of the Sankhya
philosophy, said to have been written by Kapila himself.
Printed in the Bibliotheca Indica.
SANKHYA-SAEA, A work on the Sankhya philosophy by
Yijnana Bhikshu. Edited by Hall in the Bibliotheca Indica.
SANNYASL A Brahman in the fourth and last stage of his
religious life.
(See Brahman.) In the present day the term has
a wider meaning, and is applied to various kinds of
religious
mendicants who wander about and subsist upon alms, most of
them in a filthy condition and with very scanty clothing. They
are generally devotees of Siva.
SANTA. Daughter of Dasa-ratha, son of Aja, but adopted
by Loma-pada or Eoma-pada, king of Anga. She was married
to
.Rz'shya-snnga.
$ANTANIJ. A king of the Lunar race, son of Pratipa,
father of Bhishma, and in a way the grandfather of Dhnta-
rashfra and Pa?^u. Eegarding him it is said, " Every decrepit
man whom he touches with his hands becomes young." (See
Maha-bharata.)
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He was called Satya-vach, truth-speaker/ and
was remarkable for his "devotion and charity, modesty, con-
stancy, and resolution."
^SlNTL/SATAKA. A century of verses on peace of mini
A poem of repute writen by $ri /Shlana.
SAPTAESHI (Sapta-nshi). The seven great .ffishis. See
EishL
SAPTA-ATL A poem of 700 verses on the triumphs of
Durga.
It is also called Devl-mabatmya.