Essays Lectures on Religion of Hindu Vol 02

Author(s): H H Wilson
Publisher: Trubner and Company London

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and the rest', with Sinmini, VYÁGHRINI", and SKANDA, be propitious to you, I adore them.
20. May the lesser Tirthas, the source and term of the Vágmati, and the rest'; the Keśa Chaitya, on the Sankochha' hill, the Lalita Chaitya, on the Jutochha hillo, the Devi of the Phullochha hill', and the Bhagavatí, of the Dhyánaprochha hill", be propitious to us-I adore them.
Brahmani and the rest are the Mátrikás, the divine mothers, or personified energies of the Hindu gods.
? Sinhini and Vyóghrini, or the Lion and Tiger - goddesses, are inferior spirits attached to the Mátris.
3 Skanda is the Hindn deity, according to the Aiswarikas; according to the Swabhávikas, self- engendered.
+ These are four pools at l'ágdwára, named Táró T., Agastya T., Apsara T., and Ananta T.-- Mr. Hodgson classes the source and term of the chief river Vágmatí, amongst the greater Tirthas, but the text cannot be so understood.
5 Sankochha hill is called, by the Gorkhas, sivapura; by the Newárs, Shipphucho: the Legend of Keśa Chaitya states, that KRAKUCHICHHANDA Buddha here cut off the forelocks of 700 Brahmans and Kshatriyas, or, in other words, made them Banddhas; half the hair (keša) rose to heaven, and gave rise to the kesavati river, the other half fell on the ground, and sprung up in numberless Chaityas of the form of Lingas. See also Hodgson, “Illustrations”, 168.]
6 Lalita Chaitya is said to have been founded by the disciples of VIPašyi; the hill on which it stands is the Arjun of the Gorkhas, the Jamachho of the Newars.
The goddess is Vasundhará, in the form of a conical stone: the hill is called, by the Gorkhas, Phulchok.
8 Another goddess, a portion of Guhyeswari, in the shape of a conical stone. The hill is called, by the Gorkhas, Chandragiri.