ORIENTAL SERIES.

SA VITRISESHA. 291
Savaim This is the version given in the Nirukta. In the
Yislmu Parana, Savarna is daughter of the ocean, wife of
Prachlnabarhis, and mother of the ten Prachetasas.
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SAYITJtJ.
Generator/ i. A name used in the Yedas for
the sun. Many hymns are addressed to him, and he is some-
times distinguished from that deity. 2. One of the Adityas.
SAYITBl. i. The holy verse of the Yeda, commonly called
Gayatri. 2, A name of $ata-rupa, the daughter and wife of
Brahma, who is sometimes regarded as a personification of the
holy verse. 3. Daughter of King Aswa-pati, and lover of Satyavan,
whom she insisted on marrying, although she was warned
by a seer that he had only one year to live. When the fatal
day arrived, Satyavan went out to cut wood, and she followed
him. There he fell, dying, to the earth, and she, as she sup-
ported him, saw a figure, who told her that he was Yama, king
of the dead, and that he had come for her husband's spirit.
Yama carried off the spirit towards the shades, but Savitri
followed him. Her devotion pleased Yama, and lie offered her
any boon except the life of her husband. She extorted three
such boons from Yama, but still she followed him, a,nd he was
finally constrained to restore her husband to life.
SAYYA-SACHIK 'Who pulls a bow with either
A title of Arjuna.
hand.'
SAYAJVA,
the jRtg-veda.
Sayawacharya, the celebrated commentator on
" He was brother of Madhavacharya, the prime
minister of Yira Bukka Eaya, Eaja of Yijaya-nagara, in the
fourteenth century, a munificent patron of Hindu literature.
Both the brothers are celebrated as scholars, and many important
works are attributed to them ; not only scholia on the Sanhitas
and Brahmanas of the Yedas, but original works on grammar
the fact, no doubt, being that they availed themselves
and law ;
of those means which their situation and influence secured them,
and employed the most learned Brahmans they could attract to
Yijaya-nagara upon the works which bear their name, and to
which they also contributed their own labour and learning;
their works were, therefore, compiled under peculiar advantages,
and are deservedly held in the highest estimation." Wilson.
SESHA, SESHA-NlGA. King of the serpent race or Nagas,
and of the infernal regions called Patala, A serpent with a
thousand heads which is the couch and canopy of Yishwu whilst