ORIENTAL SERIES.

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fire was restored to them. This story is told by Sayawa in
elucidation of a Yedic allusion, and he quotes the $atyayana
Brahmam as the authority.
TUKHARAS. A northern tribe from whom Tukharistan
obtained its name. They are probably the tribe of $akas, by
whom Bactria was taken from the Greeks.
Tusharas.
They are also called
TULADHARA A trading Yaisya mentioned in the Maha-
bharata as very virtuous and learned, to whom Jajali, an
arrogant Brahman, was sent by a voice from the sky to learn
wisdom.
TITLUNGA. Tuluva, or the country where the Tulu lan-
on the western coast below Goa.
guage is spoken,
TUMBTJKU. Name of a Gandharva. See Yiradha,
TUJVDA A demon slain by Nahusha, the son of Ayus.
He had a son named YituTwfa, who was killed by Bhagavati
(Durga).
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TURANGA-YAKTRA. Horse-faced people. See Kinnaras.
TURUSHKAS Turks; the people of Turkistan. The
Indo-Scythians, who, under Kanishka and other kings of the
race, held Northern India.
TURYASA, TURYA/SOJ. Son of Yayati by DevayanL He
refused to bear the curse of premature decrepitude passed upon
his father, and so his father cursed him that his posterity should
"
not possess dominion." His father gave him a part of his
kingdom, but after some generations, his line merged into that
of his brother Puru, who bore for a time the curse passed upon
his father.
TUSHARA. See Tukhara,
TUSHITAS. A gawa or class of subordinate deities, thirty-
six in number, but sometimes reduced to twelve, and identified
with the Adityas.
TWASH21BI In the JKg-veda this deity is the ideal artist,
the divine artisan, the most skilful of workmen, who is versed
in all wonderful and admirable contrivances, ancL corresponds in
many respects with Hephaistos and Yulcan. He sharpens and
carries the great iron axe, and he forges the thunderbolts of
Indra. He is the beautiful, skilful worker, the omniform, the
archetype of all forms, the vivifier and the bestower of long life.
He imparts generative power and bestows offspring. He forma