ORIENTAL SERIES.

VRATVA VYAHRITIS. 369
YEATYA. " Persons whom the twice-born beget on women
of their own classes, bat who omit the prescribed rites and
have abandoned the Gayatri, are to be designated as Yratyas."
Manu.
YJS/DDHA. l
OloV An epithet frequently found prefixed
to the books of ancient writers, and evidently implying that
there are one or more versions or recensions as Ynddha
Manu, Ynddha Harita. See Dharma-sastra.
Great story/ A large collection of tales
Y^/HAT-KATHA. '
from which the Kathfr-sarit-sagara was drawn. There is a
critical examination of this work by Dr. Buhler in the Indian
Antiguary, voL i
Y-ft/EAT-SANHITA. The astronomical work of Yaraha
Mihira.
Y&THAN NAEADlYA PUEAJVA. An Upa-purawa, See
Purafia,
Y^JHASPATL See Bnhaspati
Y^/KODAEA. < Wolf belly.' An epithet of Bhima.
YJiOTDA-YANA A wood in the district of Mathura where
KrishTia passed his youth, under the name of Gopala, among the
cowherds.
YJB/SKZVI, A descendant of Yadu, and the ancestor from
whom Knsh?ia got the name Yarshweysu
Y-B/SBL^IS, Y^/SHJVAYAS. The descendants of Vrishwi,
son of Madhu, whose ancestor was the eldest son of Yadu.
Krishna belonged to this branch of the Lunar race.
Y.R.ZTEA- In the Yedas he is the demon of drought and
tmgenial weather, with whom Indra, the god of the firmament,
is constantly at war, and whom he is constantly overpowering,
and releasing the rain. Sometimes called Vntrasura,
YB/TKA-HAK The slayer of Yntra. A title of Indra.
YYAJ3L An old grammarian and lexicographer, somewhat
later in time than PaninL A story ia the Y/ihat-katha represents
him as contemporary with Yararuchi
YYAHLK7TIS. Three mystical words said by Manu to
have been milked from the Yedas by Prajapati the word Vhttr,
from the JXtg-veda ; the word bhuvah, from the Yajur-veda; and
the word swar, from the Sama-veda (Manu, ii 76). The /Satapatha
Brahmawa defines them as " three luminous essences "
which Prajapati produced from the Yedas by heating them,