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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
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Mänik Biso. See Mänikpala.
Mänik Devi. A god, described in Dolaha-devi-kavi as sitting on a gemmed throne, with a jewelled bondi, silver beads, etc.
Mänik Kadavara. See Ratna Kadavara. Mänik-kan Bisav. See Seven Queens.
Mänikpala. The wife of king Maha-sammata (q. v.). When he went to the world of the gods to watch their dances, he left her in a bower made by the celestial craftsman Vibvakarma, and there Mâra came to tempt her. He bewitched her, and she was cured by Oddisa (q. v.) aided by the Rşis. [M.-yadinna.) A Vas-harané says that when Mara bewitched Mänikpala, Maha-sammata vainly sought aid from the Rşis, Vişnu, the Nâga King, etc.; then Oddisa succeeded, building a hall for his enchantments. The Maha-sammata-piliveta states that Umâ, Visņu, Sarasvati, Mänik Bisó (Mänikpâla), and another were all children of the same parents. Viņņu married Mårângana, a sister or daughter of Mara; but Mänik, who had been promised to Mara, was married instead to Mahasammata. Mâra was wroth. Once Säkra, giving a banquet to the gods, invited Maha-sammata, but ignored Mara, who then created a viper and sent it with a vine-yaka (spell-spirit) armed with a club to bewitch Mänik. Similarly the-M.-kavi. The Vina-upata relates that before Maha-sammata went to visit Säkra Ire built a city in which he left Mänikpala. He stayed in the gods' world three months of the gods (1 day of the gods is 100 years of men), during which Mâra disguised himself as Maha-sammata and went to Mänikpala. She however detected him, and reviled him. Mâra then fled to the Naga king, and forced him to give him a spell, whereby he bewitched her with an evil dream and leprosy. 8 demons arose from the charm. Oddisa, whose open mouth was 50 yoduns wide, was brought by Saman and Säkra, and healed her. Two versions of Oddisa-yâgaya, beginning with the flood-legend (see Maha-sammata), relates that Maha-sammata, when invited by Säkra to visit him, left Mänikpala in a new palace. Mâra broke the doors and windows, and appeared in the form of Maha-sammata ; but a handmaid detected him by his breath. He then bewitched the queen with poison from the Näga king's fangs. The R$is failed to heal her, but Oddisa, brought by Vişnu, succeeded. The Olisa-ind-malayu relates that Mâra came to her tower in the guise of Maha-sammata. Mänikpala was about to open the door to him, but her maid restrained her, and opened only a window and reviled Mâra, who threw stones and sticks at the house. But at the moment when she opened the window & viper slipped in and entered the queen's body, possessing her with the enchantment. When charmed betel was given to her, her stomach rejected it, and she vomited up a geoko lizard. Mänikpala, Umâ, Lakşmi, Siri, Gana Devi, Sarasvati, and Târâ Bhagavatî were all children of one mother. The Ina-yak or demons of love-spells are called upon to dance and release their victim. Cf. M.-sähälla. The Dalu-mura-upata says she was bewitched by a viper created 32,000 years after her marriage by Mara. According to the Vembu-rája-mangalê, Mára hollowed out a horn, and in the small end of it put a spark from the hell Avîci, which he then blew out, together with 32 spells, upon the city of Maha-sammata, and bewitched him and Mänikpala, who were then healed by Oddisa. She is one of the Seven Devas. (a. v.). conceived by Nâta. See also Vişnu. The ritual of Diya-ka-santi ya says that the last spell to be exorcised by Oddisa from Mänikpala was the jala-bandhane or water-bond, to dissolve which Oddisa, at the advice of Säkra, took the form of a colossal cormorant (diya-kd). An Oddisa-vidiya describes the hut and surroundings made by Viskam for the
