ORIENTAL SERIES.

BHAUMABHIKSHU. 49
rhetoric. The text has been printed with a commentary, and
part has been translated into German by Schiitz.
BHAUMA. Son of Bhumi (the earth). A metronymic ol
the Daitya Naraka.
BEAUTYA. The fourteenth Mann. See Mann.
BHAYA. i. A Yedic deity often mentioned in connection
with Sarva the destroyer. 2. A name of Eudra or Siva, or of
a manifestation of that god. See Eudra.
BHAYA-BHUTL A celebrated dramatist, the author of
three of the best extant Sansknt dramas, the Maha-vlra Charita,
TJttara Eama Charita, and Malati Madhava. He was also
known as Sri-kan/ha, or 'throat of eloquence.' He was a Bruh-
man, and was a native either of Beder or Berar, but Ujjayini or
its neighbourhood would seem, from his vivid descriptions of the
scenery, to have been the place of his residence. The eighth
century is the period at which he flourished. His three plays
have been translated by Wilson in blank verse, who says of
Malati Madhava, " The author is fond of an unreasonable display
of learning, and occasionally substitutes the phraseology of
logic or metaphysics for the language of poetry and nature. At
the same time the beauties predominate over the defects, and
the language of the drama is in general of extraordinary beauty
and power."
BHAYISHYA PUEA.ZVA. "This Purarca, as its name im-
what will be."
plies, should be a book of prophecies foretelling
The copies discovered contain about 7000 stanzas. The work
is far from agreeing with the declared character of a Puram,
and is principally a manual of rites and ceremonies. Its deity
is /Siva. There is another work, containing also about 7000
verses, called the Bhavishyottara Puram, a name which would
imply that " it was a continuation or supplement of the former,"
and its contents are of a similar character. Wilson.
BHAYISHYOTTAEA PUEAJVA. See Bhavishya Puram
BHAWlNl One of the names of the wife of Siva. .See
Devi
BHELA. An ancient sage who wrote upon medicine.
BHIKSHU. A mendicant. The Brahman in the fourth
and last stage of his religious life. See Brahman.
Any mendicant, especially, in its Pali form, Bhikkhu, a Buddhist
mendicant.