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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
nava-guna rosaries. Below are two Rakusus, and at the side is Visnu. The zodiac, constellations, etc., are also figured.
Nava-kola-atu. Leaves used in magic; see Vas. Nava-mini-halamba. See Bangle. Nava-natha. See Planets. Nava-ratnavall. Mother of Dala Raja. Nava-ratna-valli. See Ratna-valli. Nayaka Bisava. A goddess, invoked in Sat-bisav-väga (Yaga-vidiya). See Seven Queens. NA yaka Devi. See Abhůta Devi. Nayaka Vädi. The N. V. of Hantâne is a spirit invoked in Vadi-yak-yadinna Nayi. See Cobra. Na yide. A boy who was drowned and became a Yaka (see Gangê Bandara). Nayi-sami. See Kalu Bandara.
Nikini. A story is told that a woman, feigning longings of pregnancy, sent her husband to fetch her a nikini fruit, and then admitted her lover. The husband, learning the state of affair, caused himself to be carried home in a basket, pretending to be a oracle; when the wife inquired of him what had become of her husband, the orac le said that he was dying in the forest. That night he came out of the basket, killed the lover, and thrashed and turned out his wife. [N.-dola-kavi, N.-d.-upata.)
Nila Devi (N118-yodaya). The son of Isuru (Siva) and Ma-devi, brother of Umâ and Sarasvati, for whom he brought a celestial cloth for their rites of purification, and husband of Ridi; apparently connected as ancestor with the Radâ caste. See Kola-halu. In another legend he and his sisters are the children of Maha-sammata (q. v.) by a celestial wife. He was born at the same moment as Gaja-bâ, according to G.-puvata, and went with him to Soli, according to G.-kavi.
Nilaga Rakusu. A demon represented in the R.-bali; see Rakusu.
Nila Giri. A goddess, invoked in Giri-liyo-dolaha-pidavila. See Ciri. Also consort of Ratikan.
Nila-kantava. A goddess presiding over a tolabô plant; see Aļa Magula.
Nila Kumari Yakinl. A female spirit, invoked in the Samayan-pädura as wearing & blue robe and a flowered pillow on her head.
Nila-mali, Nila-malini. A spirit in voked in Kovila-pêvima, Pattini-yaga-kavi, and Salusalima; see Pattini.
Nila-yodaya. See Nila Devi. Nimala Devi. Mother of Oddisa. Nisa-kandi. A female demon, on whom see Riri Yaka. Nrtya. See Dancing. Oceans. See Seven Seas.
Oddisa. A demon, son of Vicila Raja of Oddisa Vadiga-pura in India and Nimala Devi (Susubi, according to Vas-haranê), who conceived him when she was bathing during periodical sickness. In a previous birth he had been born from the Serpent Maha-kela Naga, which coiled itself round Mount Meru, overspread the earth with its hood, and caused a deluge, and spat poisonous flames at Vişou when he came as a Garuda bird ; the flame from its right nostril became Oddisa, and that from the loft nostril Sanni Yaka. Later births were as follows as son of Giri-randa Yakini in the world of Garudas, where he was called Garuda Oddişa ; as Demala Oddisa, son of a Vaddakkara Yakini; as Velabi
