ORIENTAL SERIES.

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UTTAKA-PAD. '
Outstretched, supine/ In the Yedas, a
peculiar creative source from which the earth sprang. Sup-
posed to refer to the posture of a woman in parturition.
UTTANA-PADA. A son of Manu and Sata-rupa. By his
wife Su-nnta he had four sons, Dhruva, Kirtiman, Ayushman,
and Yasu. Some of th Purajias gave him another wife, Su-ruchi,
and a son, Uttama. See Dhruva.
UTTAKA (mas.), TJTTAEA (fern.). A son and daughter of
the Eivja of Yira/a. ITttara was killed in "battle by$alya. The
daughter married Abhimanyu, son of Arjuna.
UTTAEA-KUEU. A region lying far to the north,
(See
Jambu-dwipa.) (Plural) The inhabitants of this region.
UTTAEA MlMANSA. A school of philosophy. fiteDamna.
UTTAKA-NAISHADA-CHAEITA. A poem on the life
of ISTala, king of Nishada, written about the year 1000 A.D. by
Sn Harsh a, a celebrated sceptical philosopher. It has been
printed
in the Bibliotheca, Iwdica.
TJTTAEA-EAMA-CHAEITA. ' The later chronicle of Eama.
A drama by Bhava-bhuti on the latter part of Eama's life. The
second part of King Eama, as the Maha-vlra-charita is the first.
The drama is based on the TJttara KaT^a of the EamayaTia,
and quotes two or three verses from that poem. It was probably
written about the beginning of the eighth century. It has
been translated in blank verse by Wilson, and more literally by
Professor C. H. Tawney. There are several editions of the text.
YA, A name of Yaru?m also ; name of his dwelling.
YACH. l
Speech.' In the jRig-veda, Yach appears to be the
personification of speech by whom knowledge was communicated
to man. Thus she is said to have " entered into the j&shis,"
and to make whom she loves terrible and intelligent, a priest
and a jRishi. She was " generated by the gods," and is called
"
the divine Yach," " queen of the gods," and she is described
as " the melodious cow who milked forth sustenance and water,"
" who yields us nourishment and sustenance." The Brahma?ias
associate her with Prajapati in the work of creation. In the
Taittiriya Brahmana she is called " the mother of the Vedas,"
and " the wife of Indra, who contains within, herself all worlds."
In the Satapatha BrahmaTia she is represented as entering into
a sexual connection with Prajapati, who, " being desirous of
creating, connected himself with various spouses," and among