ORIENTAL SERIES.

AN-ARYAANGADA. 15
As a poem it presents occasionally poetic thoughts, but they are
very few, and are lost amid pages of flat commonplace, quaint
conceit, hyperbolical extravagance, and obscure mythology,"
Wilson. It is also called, after its author, Murari Nafoka.
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AN-ARYA. Unworthy, vile.' People who were not Aryans,
barbarians of other races and religion.
ANAStJYA. '
Charity. 5
Wife of the JKshi Atri. In the
Ramaya?ia she appears living with her husband in a hermitage
in the forest south of Chitra-ku^a. She was very pious and
given to austere devotion, through which she had obtained
miraculous powers. When Sita visited her and her husband,
she was very attentive and kind, and gave Sita an ointment
which was to keep her beautiful for ever. She was mother of
the irascible sage Durvasas. A friend of $akuntala.
ANDHAKA. i. A demon, son of Kasyapa and Diti, with a
thousand arms and heads, two thousand eyes and feet, and called
Andhaka because he walked like a blind man, although he saw
very well. He was slain by /Siva when he attempted to carry
off the Parijata tree from Swarga. From this feat $iva obtained
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the appellation Andhaka-ripu, foe of Andhaka.' 2. A grand-
son of Kroshfoi and son of Yudhajit, of the Yadava race,
who, together with his brother Vnshni, is the ancestor of the
celebrated family of Andhaka-Vnshms. 3. The name was borne
by many others of less note.
ANDHRA, ANDHRA. Name of a country and people in
the south of India, the country of Telingana. It was the seat
of a powerful dynasty, and the people were known to Pliny as
gens Andarce.
ANDHRA-BH&TTYA, A dynasty of kings that reigned in
Magadha somewhere about the beginning of the Christian era.
The name seems to indicate that its founder was a native of
Andhra, now Telingana.
ANGAu i. The country of Bengal proper about Bhagalpur.
Its capital was Champa, or Champa-purl (See Anu.) 2. A sup-
plement to the Vedas, See Vedanga.
ANGADA, i. Son of Lakshmaria and king of Angadi,
capital of a country near the Himalaya. 2. Son of Gada (brother
of Knshwa) by YrihatL 3. Son of Bali, the monkey king of Kislikindhya.
He was protected by Rama and fought on his side
against Ravana.