ORIENTAL SERIES.

AYUR-VEDABAHU. 39
fche founder of the Solar race, and afterwards the capital of
Rama. It is one of the seven sacred cities. The exact site has
not been discovered.
AYUR-VEDA. "The Veda of life. 1 A
work on medicine,
attributed to Dhanwantari, and sometimes regarded as a supplement
to the Atharva-veda.
AYUS. The first-born son of Pururavas and Urvasi, and the
father of Fahusha, Kshattra-vnddha, Rambha, Eaji, and Anenas.
BABHRU-VAHAKA. Son of Arjuna by his wife Chitran-
gada. He was adopted as the son of his maternal grandfather,
and reigned at Mawipura as his successor. He dwelt there in a
palace of great splendour, surrounded with wealth and signs of
power. When Arjuna went to Ma^ipura with the horse intended
for the Aswa-medha, there was a quarrel between Arjuna and
King Babhru-vahana, and the latter killed his father with an
arrow. Repenting of his deed, he determined to kill himself,
but he obtained from his step-mother, the Naga princess Ulupl,
a gem which restored Arjuna to life. He returned with his
father to Hastinapura, The description of this combat has been
translated from the Maha-bharata by Troyer in his B&ja
Tarangi/nfc, tome i. p. 578.
BADARAYAJVA. A name of Veda Vyasa, especially used
for him as the reputed author of the Vedanta philosophy.
was the author of the Brahma Sutras, published in the Bibliotheca
Indica.
BADARI, BADARIKA/SGBAMA. A place sacred to Vishnu,
near the Ganges in the Himalayas, particularly in Vishnu's dual
form of Nara-Narayana. Thus, in the Maha-bharata, $iva,
addressing Arjuna, says, " Thou wast Kara in a former body,
and, with ISTarayana for thy companion, didst perform dreadful
austerity at Badari for many myriads of years." It is now
known as Badari-natha, though this is properly a title of Vishnu
as lord of BadarL
BADAYA.
* A mare, the submarine fire. 7
He
In mythology it
is a flame with the head of a horse, called also Haya-siras,
'horse-head.' See Aurva,
BAHIKAS. People of the Panjab, so called in Pamni and
the Maharbharata They are spoken of as being impure and out
of the law.
BAHTJ, BAHTJKA- A king of the Solar race, who was van-