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restore her husband to youth and beauty, when she could make
her choice between him and one of them. Accordingly the three
bathed in a pond and came forth of like celestial beauty. Each
one asked her to be his bride, and she recognised and chose her
own husband. Chyavana, in gratitude, compelled Indra to admit
the Aswins to a participation of the soma ceremonial India at
first objected, because the Aswins wandered about among men
as physicians and changed their forms at will But Chyavana
was not to be refused ; he stayed the arm of Indra as he was
about to launch a thunderbolt, and he created a terrific demon
who was on the point of devouring the king of the gods when
he submitted.
According to the Maha-bharata, Chyavana was husband of
Arush! or Su-kanya and father of Aurva. He is also considered
to be the father of Harita.
The name is Chyavana in the -ftig-veda, but Chyavana in
the Bralimatta and later writings.
DADEYANCH, DADHlCHA. (Dadhicha is a later form.)
A Yedic jRishi, son of Atharvan, whose name frequently occurs.
The legend about him, as it appears in the .Zfog-veda, is that
Indra taught him certain sciences, but threatened to cut off hia
head if he taught them to any one else. The Aswins prevailed
upon Dadhyanch to communicate his knowledge to them, and,
to preserve him from the wrath of Indra, they took off hia own
head and replaced it with that of a horse. When Indra struck
off the sage's equine head the Aswins restored his own to him,
A verse of the -Big-veda says,
"
Indra, with the bones of Dadhy-
anch, slew ninety times nine Yntras ;" and the story told by the
scholiast in explanation is, that while Dadhyanch was living on
earth the Asuras were controlled and tranquillised by his appear-
ance ; but when he had gone to heaven, they overspread the
whole earth. Indra inquired for Dadhyanch, or any relic of
him. He was told of the horse's head, and when this was
found in a lake near Kuru-kshetra, Indra used the bones aa
weapons, and with them slew the "
Asuras, or, as the words of
the Yedic verse are explained, he " foiled the nine times ninety
stratagems of the Asuras or Yntras." The story as afterwards
told in the Maha-bharata and Pura?ias is that the sage devoted
himself to death that Indra and the gods might be armed with
bis bones as more effective weapons than thunderbolts for the