ORIENTAL SERIES.

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Saraswati to Brahma and Ganga to $iva, and contented himself
with Lakshmi alone. (See Yach.) Other names of Saraswati
are Bharati, Brahmi, Put-kari, $arada, Yaglswarl. The river is
now called Sarsuti. It falls from the Himalayas and is lost in
the sands of the desert. In ancient times it flowed on to the sea.
A passage in the .Z&g-veda says of it,
" She who goes on pure
from the mountains as far as the sea," Max Muller^ Veda, 45.
the curse of
According to the Maha-bharata it was dried up by
the sage Utathya See (q.v.). Sapta-sindhava.
SARASWATI KAJVTHABHARAJVA. A treatise on poeti-
cal and rhetorical composition generally ascribed to Bhoja Raja.
SARAYU. The Sarju. river or Gogra.
SARMISHfHA. Daughter of Ynshaparvan the Danava,
second wife of Yayati and mother of Puru. See Devayani.
&ARNGA. The bow of Knshrca.
SARYA, /SARYA, A Yedic deity ; the destroyer. After-
,
wards a name of Siva and of one of the Rudras. See Rudra,
SARVA-DABi'AJVA SANGRAHA. A work by Madhavacharya
which gives an account of the Darsanas or schools of
philosophy, whether orthodox or heretical. It has been printed.
$ARYARL A woman of low caste, who was very devout
and looked for the coming of Rama until she had grown old.
In reward of her piety a sage raised her from her low caste, and
when she had seen Rama she burnt herself on a funeral pile.
She ascended from the pile in a chariot to the heaven of
SARYA-SARA. Name of an Upanishad.
$ASADA. *
Hare-eater.' A name given to Yikukshi (q.T.).
'
$A$1, SA.SIN, The moon, so called from the marks on the
moon being considered to resemble a hare (sasa).
/SASTRA.
book of divine or
c A rule, book, treatise.' Any
recognised authority, but mose especially the law-books.
SATA-DHANIJ. A king who had a virtuous and discreet
wife named $aibya, They were both worshippers of Yislmu.
One day they met a heretic, with whom ata-dh.ami conversed ;
but the wife " turned away from him and cast her eyes up to
the sun," After a time $ata-dhanu died and his wife ascended
Ms funeral pile. The wife was born again as a princess with a
knowledge of her previous existence, but the husband received
the form of a dog.
She recognised him in this form and placed