ORIENTAL SERIES.

ANGIRASAS ANSUMAT. 17
Some descendants of Angiras by the Kshatriya wife of a
childless king
are mentioned in the Purimas as two tribes of
Angirasas who were Brahmans as well as Kshatriyas.
The hymns of the Atharva-veda are called Angirasas, and the
descendants of Angiras were specially charged with the protection
of sacrifices performed in accordance with the Atharva-veda.
From this cause, or from their being associated with the descen-
dants of Atharvan, they were called distinctively Atharvangirasas,
ANGIKASAS. A class of Pitns (q.v.).
' ANILA. The wind' See Vayu.
ANILAS. A gawa or class of deities, forty-nine in number,
connected with Anila, the wind.
' Who does not wink. 7 A
ANIMISHA*
general epithet of
all gods.
ANIBUDDHA. 'Uncontrolled' Son of Pradyumna and
grandson of Kn'shwa, He married his cousin, Su-bhadra. A
Daitya princess named Usha, daughter of Bam, fell in love with
him, and had him brought by magic influence to her apartments
in her father's city of Sonita-pura. Barca sent some guards to
seize him, but the valiant youth, taking an iron club, slew his
assailants. Ba?&a then brought his magic powers to bear and
secured him. On discovering whither Aniruddha had been
carried, 'Krishna,, Bala-rama, and Pradyumna went to rescue
him. A great battle was fought ; Ba?ia was aided by Siva, and
by Skanda, god of war, the former of whom was overcome by
Kn'shwa, and the latter was wounded by Garu& and Pradyumna.
Bswa was defeated, but his life was spared at the intercession
of $iva, and Aniruddha was carried home to Dwaraka with
Usha as his wife. He is also called Jhashanka and Usha-pati
He had a son named Vajra.
ANJANA. i. The elephant of the west or south-west quarter.
2, A serpent with many heads descended from Kadru.
ANJANA. Mother of Hanumat by Vayu, god of the wind.
ANNA-P0E/VA. '
Full of food. J A form of Durga, worshipped
for her power of giving food Of. the Eoman Anna Perenna*
AN/SUMAT, AN/SUMAN. Son of Asamanjas and grandson
of Sagara, He brought back to earth the horse which had been
carried off from Sagara's Aswa-modha sacrifice, and he discovered
the remains of that king's sixty thousand sons, who had been
killed by the fire of the wrath of Kapila,