ORIENTAL SERIES.

SRf- VA TSAS U-BHANU.
formerly a place of great splendour. It retains its sanctity
has lost its grandeur. Also called Sri-parvata.
/SGR1-YATSA. A particular mark, said to be a curl of hair
on the breast of Yishwu or Krishna, and represented by *j&
$RUTA-BODHA. A work on metres attributed to Kali-dasa,
It has been edited and translated into French by Lancereau.
SRUTA-KIRTTI. Cousin of Sita and wife of tfatru-ghna.
$RUTARSHI. A JKshi who did not receive the ruti
(revelation) direct, but obtained it at second-hand from the
Yedic .Rishis.
SRT7TI. 'What was heard.' The revealed word. The
Mantras and Brahmawas of the Yedas are always included in
the term, and the Upanishads are generally classed with them.
STEAL! -,DEYATAS, DEYATAS. Gods or goddesses of
the soil, local deities.
STHANTT. A name of iva,
STHAPATYA-YEDA- The science of architecture, one of
the Upa-vedas.
STIltWA, STHWA-KAR.YA. A Yaksha who is represented
in the Maha-bharata to have changed sexes for a while
with SikhancZim, daughter of Drupada.
SU-BAHU. 'Five-armed/ r. A son of Dhnta-rfishfra and
King of Chedi 2. A son of Satru-ghna and king of Mathura.
SU-BALA. i. A king of Gandhara, father of Gandhari, wife
of Dhnta-rashzlra. 2. A mountain in Lanka on which Hanuman
alighted after leaping over the channel
SU-BHADRA. Daughter of Yasu-deva, sister of Knshwa,
and wife of Arjuna, Bala-rama, her elder brother, wished to
give her to Dur-yodhana,but Arjuna carried her off fromDwaraka
at Krishna's suggestion, and Bala-rama subsequently acquiesced
in their union. She was mother of Abhimanyu. She appears
especially as sister of Knshna in his form Jagan-natha, and
according to tradition there was an incestuous intimacy between
them. When the car of Jagan-natha is brought out the images
of Su-bhadra and 33ala-rama accompany the idol, and the inti-
macy of Jagan-natha and Su-bhadra is said to provoke taunts and
reproaches.
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$UBHANGl Fair-limbed. 7 An epithet of Rati, wife of
Kama, and of YakshI, wife of Kavera.
Son of Krishna and Satya-bhama,
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