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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[JULY 5, 1872
Light of the sun on the mountain at night, Student bring in thy hand a gift to the good The lord Dasaratha went holding a lotus. Krishna put his, sandals at the root of the I salute a myriad myriad times Debi Bisti Må. Kadambari tree, WI
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DE Slowly slowly, he advanced his feet in the "Sankat, kikat, kili" arenonsense words, which Jamuna's water. I
though they are just translateable are stated to In the Jamuna's water was a snake foolish be here used in some mystic sense. Gorur is with illusions, in
the Oriyo pronunciation of Garuda, Debi Bisti Bharata informed him; Sankat-kikat-kili; is another of the goddesses who have power over He bit holding him the poison went twelve, demons. The short is the equivalent of fingers deg iliw w
and is so pronounced in Apen minaccented syls: The exorciser swept many incantations, lables, though it sounds a inaccentel or closed, Then the lord Chakradhar did not rapve ones. Vi ville et teesi The gods began to consult
This spell for suakes, is firmly believed in, Where art thou, ho! Gorur come ho! they said. while it is being uttered the part affected must be Gorur was feeding in the Ramyak island lightly rubbed by the hand of the exorcist, and His food tasted to him like poison.
this is what is meant by the expression “the His history I will tell, conqueror of the world ! exorcist swept many spells." The continued I tell thee O lord of birds,
belief in the efficaey of this spell may be due Rushing enter the Himalaya mountain ; to the foot that several of the Orissa snakes are In the mountain there was a pot of nectar not deadly, though their bite causes pain and With swords and maces ten thousand kan- swelling. This is particularly the case with the
darpas and Yakshas surround it grass-snakes, as well as with the blue and yellow Gorur spread his wings a little
snake found on the sea-shore which is only really He gave the nectar, the lord Bhagwan nrose. daugerous when in the water,
LEGEND OF THE ORIGIN OF THE TUNGABHADRA RIVER. Once upon a time in the remote past, the courses towards the east, unite at Kúdlí, about earth was carried awny bodily to Patala, or the eighty miles from the soutee, and become theneenether regions of the world, by the powerful forward the compound river of Tungabhadra. giant Hiranyaksha, The Devas, ever noted for The last named stream goes in an opposite directheir pasillanimity, were in consequence deprived tion below the ghâţs, and unites with another of their legitimate perquisites in the shapesea-going river called Kumârad hârê. of havis, or sacrificial food, and, unable to J: In this manner, the aforesaid rivers, being of redress their own wrongs went to Kshira 8á- divine origin, exist in the world for the spiritual gara, or the milky oceanyang laid their com- as well as temporal) benefit of sinful mankind.. plaint at the feet of Miis lņu, who was living . The foregoing history, contained in the Bhain an island called Sveta Dwipar Vishnuvishyóttara Purapa, and related to Shanmukha was graciously pleased to grant their petition, by his father Rudra, was repeated by Krishna and, incarnate in the form of bour, conquered to Dharmazéxa, shaving been inculcated to the giant, and rescued the late from his Kurukutsa Maharaja by Närada.
A yrasp. When the earth was unrolled, the deli- The rival rivers Tung4 and Bhadra take their verer found that Vedapfidn Pârvata was theland's rise in the same alpine tract of country, in the end, and therefore rested on its summit for a extreme west of thu province of Maisūr, about 250 while. While in this postare, the right tusk miles as a crow Afes from Bangalor. The source of the boar broke [for some unexplained reason is called Ganga Modajitand is scarcely, acces and presently there gushed forth from it the bible for two or three months fix the hot weather, river Bhadra. From the left tusk, which was i t is however frequented by pilgrims who seek to longer than the other, sprang at the same time
wash off their sins by bathing in the rivers at their
sources. It is certainly no easy task to unravel the the sister river Tanga, Simultaneously, a third
151y, a third tangled mass of mystery and superstition involved in stream issued from the eyes of the boar, called the above legend. But it is suggested that the earNetravati, The two former, taking different ly Brahmans, wishing to secure for the region a
