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SAUDASASAVARNA.
daughters should accept Mm as a bridegroom, the king would
consent to the marriage. Saubhari was conducted to the presence
of the girls ; but on his way he assumed a fair and handsome
form, so that all the girls were captivated, and contended
with each other as to who should become his wife. It ended
by his marrying them all and taking them home. He caused
Yiswa-karma to build for each a separate palace, furnished in the
most luxurious manner, and surrounded with exquisite gardens,
where they lived a most happy life, each oue of them having her
husband always present with her, and believing that he was
devoted to her and her only. By his wives he had a hundred
but as he found his hopes and desires for them
and fifty sons ;
to daily increase and expand, he resolved to devote himself
wholly and solely to penance and the worship of Yislmu.
Accordingly, he abandoned his children and retired with his
wives to the forest. See Yislmu Purawa.
SAUDASA. Son of King Sudas. Their descendants are
all Saudasas. See Kalmiisha-pada,
SATJNANDA, A club shaped like a pestle, which was one
of the weapons of Eala-rama.
$AUTAKA. A sage, the son of $unaka and grandson of
Gritsa-mada. He was the author of the Bnhad-devata, an Anu-
kramafti, and other works, and he was a teacher of the Atharva-
veda. His pupil was Aswalayana. There was a family of the
name, and the works attributed to $aunaka are probably the
productions of more than one person.
SAURA PTJRAJVA. See Parana.
SAURASHTRAS. The people of Surashfra.
SAUTL Name of the sage who repeated the Maha-bharata
to the JMshis in the Naimisha forest.
SAUVIRAS. A people connected with the Saindhavas or
people of Sindh, and probably inhabitants of the western and
southern parts of the Panjab. Cunningham says that Sauvlra
was the plain country.
SAYARJVA, SAYARATL The eighth Manu. The name is
used either alone or in combination for all the succeeding Manus
to the fourteenth and kst. See Manu.
SAVAK2VA, Wife of the sun,
" The female of like appear-
ance," whom Sarawyu, wife of Yivaswat, substituted for herself
when she fled. (See SaranyiL) Manu was the offspring of