ORIENTAL SERIES.

BHAGIRA THIBHARAD WAJA. 45
Purawa is the tenth book, which narrates in detail the history
of Krishna, and has "been translated into perhaps all the ver-
nacular languages of India. Colebrooke concurs in the opinion
of many learned Hindus that this PuraTia is the composition of
the grammarian Vopadeva, who lived about six or seven cen-
turies ago at the court of Hemadri, Eaja of Deva-giri (Deogurh
or Daulatabad), and "Wilson sees no reason for calling in
question the tradition which assigns the work to this writer.
This Purana has been translated into French by Burnouf, and
has been published with the text in three volumes folio, and
in other forms.
BHAGIEATEL The Ganges. The name is derived from
Bhaglratha, a descendant of Sagara, whose austerities induced
Siva to allow the sacred river to descend to the earth for the
purpose of bathing the ashes of Sagara's sons, who had been
consumed by the wrath of the sage Kapila. Bhaglratha named
the river Sagara, and after leading it over the earth to the sea,
he conducted it to Patala, where the ashes of his ancestors were
laved with its waters and purified.
BHAIEAVA (mas.), BHAIEAYl (fern.). 'The terrible/
Names of Siva and his wife Devi. The Bhairavas are eight in-
ferior forms or manifestations of Siva, all of them of a terrible
character: (r.) Asitanga, black limbed; (2.) Sanhara, destruc-
tion; (3.) KUTU, a dog; (4.) Kala, black; (5.) Ivrodha, anger;
(6.) Tamra-chu$i, red crested; (7.) Chandra-chu^a, moon crested ;
(8.) Maha, great. Other names are met with as variants : Ka-
pala, Rudra, Bhishawa, Un-matta, Ku-pati, &c. In these forms
Siva often rides upon a dog, wherefore he is called Swaswa,
'whose horse is a dog.'
BHAMATL A gloss on Sankara's commentary upon the
Brahma Sutras by Vacliaspati Mm'a. It is in course of publi-
cation in the Biblioiheca Indica.
BHANUMATI Daughter of Bhanu, a Yadava chief, who
was abducted from her home in Dwaraka, during the absence of
her father, by the demon JSfikumbha.
BHAEADWAJA. A J^shi to whom many Vedic hymns are
attributed. He was the son of Bnhaspati and father of Drowa,
the preceptor of the Paw^avas. The Taittiiiya Brahma^a says
that "he lived through three lives" (probably meaning a life of
great length), and that "he became immortal and ascended to