ORIENTAL SERIES.

46 BHARADWAJA BHARATA.
the heavenly world, to union "with the sun." In. the Maha*
bharata he is represented as living at Hardwar ; in the Eamayawa
he received Eama and Sita in his hermitage at Prayaga, "which
was then and afterwards much celebrated. According to some
of the Pura?ms and the Hari-vansa, he became by gift or adop-
tion the son of King Bharata, and an absurd story is told about
his birth to account for his name : His mother,
the wife of
Utathya, was pregnant by her husband and by Bnhaspati.
Dirgha-tamas, the son by her husband, kicked his half-brother
out of the womb before his time, when Bnhaspati said to his
mother, *
Bhara-dwarjam/ '
Cherish this child of two fathers.'
BHAEADWAJA. i. Drorca. 2. Ajay descendant of Bharad*
waja or follower of his teaching. 3. Name of a grammarian and
author of Sutras.
BHAEATA. i. A hero and king from whom the warlike
people called Bharatas, frequently mentioned in the .ffig-veda,
were descended The name is mixed up with that of Yiswami-
tra. Bharata's sons were called Viswamitras and Viswamitra's
sons were called Bharatas.
2. An ancient king of the first Manwantara. He was
devoted to Yish?ra, and abdicated his throne that he might
continue constant in meditation upon him. "While at his
hermitage, he went to bathe in the river, and there saw a doe
big with young frightened by a lion. Her fawn, which was
brought forth suddenly, fell into the water, and the sage rescued
it He brought the animal up, and becoming excessively fond
"
of it, his abstraction was interrupted. In the course of time
he died, watched by the deer with tears in its eyes, like a son
mourning for his father ;
and he himself, as he expired,
cast his
eyes upon the deer and thought of nothing else, being wholly
occupied with one idea." For this misapplied devotion he was
born again
as a deer with the faculty of recollecting his former
life. In this form he lived an austere retired life, and having
atoned for his former error, was born again as a Brahman, lint
his person was ungainly, and he looked like a crazy idiot. He
discharged servile offices, and was a palankin bearer; but he
had true wisdom, and discoursed deeply upon philosophy and
the power of Yishm Finally he obtained exemption from
future birtL This legend is " a sectarial graft upon a Pauranik
stem/