ORIENTAL SERIES.

358 V1NDH YA 7ALT VIRADHA.
VHTDHYAYALL JWife of Bali the Asura.
YINDHYA-YASENl <
The dweller in the Yindhyas.' The
wife of /Siva. See Devi
YIPAS, YIPASA The river Eyas, the Hyphasis or Bibasis
of the classical writers. A legend relates that it obtained its
name through the sage Yasishtfha, who, wishing to commit
suicide, bound his limbs with cords and threw himself into the
water. The river, declining to drown him, cast him unbound
(vipdsa) on its bank.
YIPEACHITTL Son of Kasyapa and Danu. He is chief
of the Danavas.
YlRA-BHADRA A son or emanation of Siva, created from
his mouth, and having, according to the Yayu Purana, " a thou-
sand heads, a thousand eyes, a thousand feet, wielding
a thou-
sand clubs, a thousand shafts ; holding the shell, the discus, the
mace, and bearing a blazing bow and battle-axe; fierce and
terrific, shining with dreadful splendour, and decorated with the
crescent moon ; clothed in a tiger's skin, dripping with blood,
having a capacious stomach and a vast mouth armed with formidable
tusks," &c., &c. The object of his creation was to stop
Daksha's sacrifice, and harry away the gods and others who were
attending. He is an especial object of worship in the Mahratta
country, and there are sculptures
of him in the caves of Ele-
phanta and Ellora, where he is represented with eight hands.
YIRA-CHARITA. A book of tales by Ananta, which de-
scribes the feuds between the descendants of Yikramaditya and
Salivahana.
YIRADHA. A horrible man-eating Rakshasa, son of Kala
and Satahrada. By penance he had obtained from Brahma the
boon of invulnerability. He is described as "being like a
mountain peak, a man-eater, loud-voiced, hollow-eyed, largemouthed,
huge, huge-bellied, horrible, rude, long, deformed, of
dreadful aspect, wearing a tiger's skin, dripping with fat, wetted
with blood, terrific to all creatures, like death with open mouth,
bearing tlxree lions, four tigers, two wolves, ten deer, and the
great head of an elephant with the tusks, and smeared with fat,
on the point of an iron pike, shouting with a loud voice." Rama,
with Lakshmawa and Sita, encountered him in the Daw^aka
forest, when he foully abused and taunted the brothers, and
seized upon Sita. The brothers proved with their arrows that