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'destructive;' Hradin, 'roaring;' Kulisa, 'axe; '
Pavi, '
pointed; 1
Phena-vahin, 'foam-bearing; Shatf-kona, 'hexagon;' ambhaand
Swam. 2. Son of Aniruddha. His mother is sometimes said
to he Aniruddha's wife Su-bhadra, and at others the Daitya
princess Usha. 'Krishna just before his death made him king
over the Yadavas at Indra-prastha. See the next.
YAJRA-NABHA. The celebrated chakra (discus) of Krishna.
According to the Maha-bharata it was given to him by Agni for
his assistance in defeating Indra and burning the Khanrfava forest.
' YAKA, A crane. 3 A great Asura who lived near the city
of Eka-chakra, and forced the Raja of the place to send him
daily a large quantity of provisions, which he devoured, and
not only the provisions, but the men who carried them. Under
the directions of Kunti, her son Bhima took the provisions, and
when the demon struck him, a terrific combat followed ; each
one tore up trees by the roots and belaboured the other, till
Bluma seized the demon by the legs and tore him asunder.
Kuvera is sometimes called by this name.
YALA-KHILYAS. i. Eleven hymns of an apocryphal or
peculiar character interpolated in the jRig-veda, 2. " Pigmy
sages no bigger than a joint of the thumb, chaste, pious, resplendent
as the rays of the sun." So described by the Yislmu
Purawa, which says that they were brought forth by Samnati
(humility), wife of Kratu, and were 60,000 in number. They are
able to fly swifter than birds. The .Rig-veda says that they sprang
from the hairs of Prajapati (Brahma). They are the guards of
the chariot of the sun. They are also called Kharwas. Wilson
says " they are not improbably connected with the character of
Daumling, Thaumlin, Tamlane, Tom-a-lyn, or Tom Thumb."
YALMIK3. The author of the Ramayana, which he in Yedic
phrase is said to have "seen." He himself is represented as
taking part in some of the scenes he describes. He received
the banished Slta into his hermitage at Chitra-ku/a, and edu-
"
cated her twin sons Kusa and Lava. Tradition has marked a
hill in the district of Banda in Bundlekand as his abode." The
invention of the sloka is attributed to him, but it cannot be his,
because the metre is found in the Yedas.
YAMACHARIS, Followers of the left-hand sect. &eTantra.
YAMA-J2EYA. i. A Yedic jK'ishi, author of many hymns.
In one of his hymns he represents himself as speaking before his