ORIENTAL SERIES.

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BRIHASPATIBUDHA.
also designated as '
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the shirting and '
the gold-coloured,* and aa
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the thunder for his voice.
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In later times he is a JRisbi. He is also regent of the planet
Jupiter, and the name is commonly used for the planet itself.
In this character his car is -called Mti-ghosha and is drawn by
eight pale horses. He was son of the .Z&shi Angiras, and he bears
the patronymic Angirasa. As preceptor of the gods he is called
Animishacharya, Chakshas, Ijya, and Indrejya. His wife, Tara,
was carried off by Soma, the moon, and this gave rise to a war
called the Taraka-maya. Soma was aided by Usanas, Budra, and
all the Daityas and Danavas, while Indra and the gods took the
part of Bn'haspatL "Earth, shaken to her centre," appealed to
Brahma, who interposed and restored Tara to her husband. She
was delivered of a son which Bnhaspati and Soma both claimed,
but Tara, at the command of Brahma to tell the truth, declared
Soma to be the father, and the child was named Budha. There
is an extraordinary story in the Matsya and Bhagavata Purarats
of the Rishis having milked the earth through Bnhaspati. (See
Vislmu Punma, i. pp. 188, 190.) Bnhaspati was father of
Bharadwaja by Marnata, wife of Utathya. (See Bharadwaja.)
An ancient code of law bears the name of Bnhaspati, and he is
also represented as being the Yyasa of the "fourth, Dwapara
age." There was a .Zfo'shi of the name in the second Manwan-
tara, and one who was founder of an heretical sect. Other epi-
thets of Bnhaspati are Jiva, '
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the living/ Didivis, the bright/
Dhishana, 'the intelligent/ and, for his eloquence, Gosh-pati,
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B57HAT-KATHA. A large collection of tales, the original
of the Katha-sarit-sagara (q.v*).
B5/BAT-SANHITA A celebrated work on astronomy by
Varaha Mihira, It has been printed by Kern in the Bibliotheca
Indica, who has also published a translation in Jour. E. A. S.
for 1870 and following years.
BUDDHA- Gotama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism.
Vishwu's ninth incarnation. See Avatara.
The planet Mercury, son of
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BUDHA. 'Wise, intelligent.
Soma, the moon, by Rohwi, or by Tara, wife of BnhaspatL (See
Bnhaspati.) He married Ha, daughter of the Manu Yaivaswata,
and by her had a son, Puriiravas. Budha was author of a hymn
in the JJig-veda. (See Ha.) From his parents he is called