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life. Thus Umâ was restored to Siva. The Siva-ranga-malé prescribes an exorcism in which the celebrant dances with an arrow in his hand, and it relates that Siva took the sun and moon, and decked himself for the dance; holding in his right hand a "victoryconch” (jaya-saka), he performed the "evening-dance","dawn-dance", and tadam (lândava ?) before gods, men, Yakas, and Maha-bamba. With Vignu and Säkra he invented the word svasti (see Alphabet). He took part in the healing of Maha-sammata (see Abinasantiya), and of Vijaya (see Ata Magula). The hirässa vine arose from his nostril (ib.); he cut off the head of Gana Devi, whence sprang a cocoanut palm (see ib., Cocoa-nut, Gana Devi); gave to Bhasmasura the power of burning up all on whose head he laid his hand, with which Bh. attacked him (see Bhasmasura and Devel Devi); fetched a pusul to heal the Bodhi-sattva (see Bodhi-saltva), and caused a cloth to be brought for the healing of Mahasammata (see Cloth). To him Hamsavati offered an ivory image to obtain a son (see Dala Raja). He seems to be the Rşi Isvara who is said to be the father of fowls (see Fowl). Mahakela when coiled round Meru was struck by him (see Húniyan Yaka). He is father of Kanda or Kataragama Deva, for the legend of whose birth see Kanda. The various legends mentioned s. v. Kota-halu state that he was father of Ma-devi, of Sarasvati, Umâ, and Nila, and that he married Umâ; or that he was father of Ma-devi, and their daughter Umâ married Maha-sammata.At Säkra's order he caused Rahu to lure Mala Raja to Ceylon (888 Panduvas). He planted cocoanuts to dispel sickness (see Tovil). Invoked in Tis-päyê kima (as regent of the 3rd päya, as having 3 eyes, 3 wives, and a trident, riding a bull, wearing an elephant's skin, and reducing the world to chaos), also in Abinamangala, Gana-pati-yadinna, Mal-keli-y., Ran-dunu-upata, Sat-adiya-kavi, etc. See also Abhůta Devi, Cobra, Divi Dos, Lily, Riri Yaka, Tanipola Riri Yaka, Tola Kadavara, Vas.
Siva-kali. A goddess invoked in Mal-keli-yadima as having vipers and cobras round her body.
Siva-yard. A spirit invoked in Mal-keli-yadima as a Bigi-billâ, with five-cornered mitre. Sivu Varan. See Guardian Gods. Siya va tuka Yaka. A demon connected with the legend of the plague of Visala, q. v. Skanda. See Kanda.
Small Pox. The disease is said in the Vaduru-santiya to have arisen from the burning of Madura by Pattini. See Kali, Muttu-mari, Pattini, Vaduru Ma-devi.
Sobhita. A former Buddha. See Maha-sohon Yaka.
Sohona Yaka. (1) A demon described in Gara-yak-pâliya. (2) Father of Ratikan by S. Yakini. See also Maha-sohona Yaka.
Sohon Gará. A demon invoked in Dolos-giri-dev-liyage-puvata as living in tombs, riding & cock, and carrying a cock in his hand. See Gara.
Sohon Giri. A goddess invoked in Amara-sântiya: See also Ratikan.
Sohon Kadavara (Son K.). A demon invoked in Kadavara-kavi and Tedâlankdraya. See also Dala Raja.
Sokari. The heroine of a popular comedy, narrated in several versions, which are recited as an accompaniment to dancing and pantomime. One Sokari-nätima, or Guruupata, relates that Four Gurus (Yogis), after performing their ceremonies before the king of Kasi, travelled away, and re-ched Ceylon. At Tambaravita one of them visited a doctor, who gave him worthless wood to build a house. He then went to a learned man, who gave him his pretty daughter Sokari to wife. Another Sokari-nätima tells how the Andi
