ORIENTAL SERIES.

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SOMA-VANSASRJ-SAILA.
SOMA-VANSA. See Chandra-vansa
SKADDHA. i. Faith, personified in the Vedas and landed
in a few hymns. 2. Daughter of the sage Daksha, wife of the
god Dharma, and reputed mother of Kama-deva ; the god of
love.
SEADDHA-DEVA, SEADJDHA-DEVA, Manu is called
by the former name in the Brahmanas, and "by the latter in the
Maha-bharata. The latter is commonly applied to Yama.
SEAUTA. Belonging to the SrutL See Sruti and Sutra.
SEAUTA-SUTEA See Sutra and Vedangas.
SEAVASTl. An ancient city which seems to have stood
near Faizabad in Oude.
$EI. 'Fortune, prosperity/ i. The wife of Vishnu. (See
Lakshmi.) 2 An honorific prefix to the names of gods, kings,
heroes, and men and books of high estimation.
STSl BHAGAVATA. See Bhagavata Puiuna.
SEl DAMA CHAEITEA. A modern drama in five acts by
Sarna Eaja Dlkshita, on the sudden elevation to affluence of Sri
Daman, a friend of Kr/shwa. It is not a good play, " but there
is some vivacity in the thoughts and much, melody in the style."
Wilson.
SBl-DHABA SWAMl. Author of several commentaries of
repute on the Bhagavad-glta, Yishwu Pura/ia, &c.
SEI HARSHA, A great sceptical philosopher, and author
*f the poem called Naishadha or Naishadhiya. There were
several kings of the name.
STSl HAESHA DEVA. A king who was author of the
drama Eatniivali,
&nSTGA-GIBI. A hill on the edge of the "Western Ghats
in Mysore, where there is a math or monastic establishment of
Brahmans, said to have been founded by Sankaracharya.
SJSJNGAEA TILAKA. 'The mark of love.' A work by
Eudra Bha^a on the sentiments and emotions of lovers as exhi-
bited in poetry and the drama.
^/ISTGA-VEEA. The modern Sungroor, a town on the
left bank of the Ganges and on the frontier of Kosala and the
Bhil country. The country around was inhabited by Nishadas
or wild tribes, and Guha, the friend of Eama, was their chief.
SEl-SAILA. The mountain of Sri, the goddess of fortune,
It is a holy place in the Dakhin, near the Krishna, and was