ORIENTAL SERIES.

316 SYAVASWATALAJANGHA.
bhama. After some contention it was decided that Akrura
should keep it, and so " lie moved about like the sun wearing a
garland of light."
STAYAjSWA. Son of Archananas. Both were Yedic JKshis.
In a hymn he says, " Sasiyasi has given me cattle, comprising
horses and cows and hundreds of sheep." The story told in
explanation is that Archananas, having seen the daughter of
Eaja Eathaviti, asked her in marriage for his son /Syavaswa. The
king was inclined to consent, but the queen objected that no
daughter of their house had ever been given to any one less
saintly than a JSishi. To qualify himself Syavaswa engaged in
austerities and begged alms. Among others, he begged of Sayasij
wife of Eaja Taranta. She took him to her husband, with
whose permission she gave him a herd of cattle and costly orna-
ments. The Eaja also gave him whatever he asked for, and
sent "him on to his younger brother, Punimilha. On his way he
met the Maruts, and lauded them in a hymn, for which they
made him a J?ishi. He then returned to Eathaviti, and received
his daughter to wife.
TADAKA. See Taraka.
TAITTIEIYA. This term is applied to the Sanhita of the
Black Yajur-veda. (See Yeda.) It is also applied to a Brah-
ma?ia, to an Ararcyaka, to an Upanishad, and a Pratisakhya of
the same Yeda. All these are printed, or are in course of print-
ing, in the BiUiothecd Indica, and of the last there is a transla-
tion in that serial
TAKSHA, TAKSHAKA. Son of Bharata, and nephew of
Eama-chandra. The sovereign of Gandhara, who resided at and
probably founded Taksha-slla or Taxila, in the Panjab.
TAKSH.AKA, One who cuts off; a carpenter.' A name of
Yiswa-karma. A serpent, son of Kadru, and chief of snakes.
TAKSHA-SILA. A city of the Gandharas, situated in the
Panjab. It was the residence of Taksha, son of Bharata and
nephew of Eama-chandra, and perhaps took its name from him.
It is the Taxila of Ptolemy and other classical writers. Arrian
describes it as "a large and wealthy city, and the most populous
between the Indus and Hydaspes." It was three days' journey
east of the Indus, and General Cunningham has found its
remains at Sahh-dharl, one mile north-east of Kala-kisaral
TALAJANGHA. Son of Jaya-dhwaja, king of Avanti, of