ORIENTAL SERIES.

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CHITKA-LEKHA A picture. Name of a nymph who
was skilled in painting and in the magic art. She was the
friend and confidante of Usha. See Usha.
CHITRANGADA. The elder son of King Santanu, and
brother of Bhishma. He was arrogant and proud, and was
killed in early life in a conflict with a Gandharva of the same
name.
CHITKANGADA. Daughter of King Chritra-vaha?ia of
Mani-pura, wife of Arjuna and mother of Babhru-vahana.
CHITKA-RATHA. '
Having a fine car.' The king of the
Gandharvas. There are many others known by this name.
CHITKA-SENA, i. One of the hundred sons of Dhrita-
rashfra. 2. A chief of the Yakshas.
CHITEA-YAJNA. A modern drama in five acts upon the
legend of Daksha. It is the work of a Fawrfit named Vaidyanatha
Vachaspati.
CHOLA. A country and kingdom of the south of India
about Tanjore. The country was called Chola-maTwMa, whence
comes the name Coromandel.
CHYAVANA, CHYAVANA. A sage, son of the J&shi
Bhngu, and author of some hymns.
In the Jfo'g-veda it is said that when " Chyavana had grown
old and had been forsaken, the Aswins divested him of his
decrepit body, prolonged his life, and restored him to youth,
making him acceptable to his wife, and the husband of
maidens." This story is thus amplified in the /Satapatha Brahmana
: The sage Chyavana assumed a shrivelled form and
lay as if abandoned. The sons of tfaryata,
a descendant of
Manu, found this body, and pelted it with clods. Chyavana
was greatly incensed, and to appease him $aryjlta yoked his
chariot, and taking with Mm his daughter Su-kanya, presented
her to Chyavana. The Aswins endeavoured to seduce
her, but she remained faithful to her shrivelled husband, and
under his direction she taunted them with being incomplete
and imperfect, and consented to tell them in what respect they
were deficient, if they would make her husband young again.
They directed that he should bathe in a certain pond, and
having done so, he came forth with the age that he desired. She
then informed them that they were imperfect because they
were excluded from a sacrifice the other gods were performing