ORIENTAL SERIES.

YAMA-VAIVASWA TA YA VA-KRL 375
Dharma-raja, 'king of justice.'
He is Audumbara, from Udum-
bara, '
the fig-tree/ and from his parentage he is Yaivaswata.
There is a Dharma-sastra which bears the name of Yama.
YAMA-YAIYASWATA. Yama as son of Yivaswat.
YAMI The goddess of the Yamuna river. Sister of Yama
YAMUNA The river Jumna, which rises in a mountain
called Kalinda (Sun). The river Yamuna is personified as the
daughter of the Sun by his wife Sanjna. So she was sister of
Yama. Bala-rama, in a state of inebriety, called upon her to
come to him that he might bathe, and as she did not heed, he,
in a great rage, seized his ploughshare-weapon, dragged her to
Vn'rn and compelled her to follow him whithersoever he wandered
through the wood. The river then assumed a human form and
besought his forgiveness,
but it was some time before she could
appease him. Wilson thinks that " the legend probably alludes
to the construction of canals from the Jumna for the purposes oi
irrigation." The river is also called Kalindi, from the place of
its source, Surya-ja, from her father, and Tri-yama.
YASKA. The author of the Nirukta, the oldest known gloss
upon the text of the Yedic hymns. Yaska lived before the
time of Pewini, who refers to his work, but he was not the first
author who wrote a Nlrukta, as he himself refers to several
predecessors.
YASODA.
of Krishna.
See Nirukta.
Wife of the cowherd Nanda, and foster-mother
YAT US, YATU-DHANAS. Demons or evil spirits of various
forms, as dogs, vultures, hoofed-animals, &c. In ancient times
the Yatus or Yatu-dhanas were distinct from the Rakshasas
though associated with them, but in the epic poems and
Pura7?.as they are identified. Twelve Yatu-dhanas are named
in the Yayu Parana, and they are said to have sprung from
Kasyapa and Su-rasa. They are associated with the Dasyus, and
are thought to be one of the native races which opposed the
progress of the immigrant Aryans.
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YAYA-KBl, YAVA-KEITA. Bought with barley/ Son
of the sage Bharadwaja. He performed great penances in order
to obtain a knowledge of the Yedas without study, and having
obtained this and other boons from Indra, he became arrogant
and treated other sages with disrespect. He made love to the