ORIENTAL SERIES.

VEDANTA VEDA VA 77. 353
and hours suitable for the performance of Yedic sacrifices and
ceremonies.
6. Kalpa. Ceremonial. Eules for applying the Yedas to the
performance of sacrifices. These rules are generally written in
the form of Sutras or short aphorisms, and so they are known as
the Kalpa-sutras or $rauta-sutras.
VEDANTA. The orthodox school of philosophy. See Banana.
VEBANTA-PAEIBHASHA. A modern text-hook on the
Vedanta philosophy.
VEBANTA-SAEA. <
Essence of the Vedanta/ A short
popular work on the Vedanta philosophy. It has heen trans,
lated by Ballantyne, and also "by Bbhtlingk, Eoer, and Frank.
VEBANTA-StJTEA. The aphorisms of Badarayawa on the
Vedanta philosophy. They are commonly called Brahma-sutras,
and a translation under that name by the Eev. K. M. Banerje?
is progressing in the Bibliotheea Indica. There is a French
translation by Poley.
VEBAETHA-PEAKA&L c
Elucidation of the meaning oi
the Veda. 1
This is the name of Sayawa's great commentary on
the jRtg-veda. Also of a commentary on the Taittiriya Sanhita
by Madhavacharya.
VEBAVATI. The 'vocal daughter' of the Mshi Kusa-dhwaja,
son of Brihaspati, When Eavana was passing through a forest
in the Himalaya he met with VedavatI, a damsel of great beauty
dressed in ascetic garb. He fell in love and tried to win her.
She told him that gods and Gandharvas had sought to woo her,
but her father would give her to no one but Vishnu, whom he
clesired for his son-in-law. Provoked at this resolution, $ambhu,
king of the Baityas, slew her father; but she remained
firm to her father's wish, and practised austerities to gain Vish?m
for her spouse. Nothing daunted, Eavarca urgently pressed his
suit, and boasted that he was superior to Vishnu. He then
touched her hair with the tip of his finger. This greatly
incensed her, and she forthwith cut off her hair, and said she
would enter into the fire before his eyes, adding, " Since I have
been insulted in the forest by thee who art wicked-hearted, I shall
be born again for thy destruction. " So she entered the blazing fire,
and celestial flowers fell all around. It was she who was born
again as Slta, and was tie moving cause of Eavawa's death,
though Eama was the agent Muir's Texts, ii. 498, iv. 458,
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