________________ 30 Notes (St. 130-131 * her for his indiscreteness in being passionate. The story of Brahma is given as follows:Brahmadeva was once performing very austere panance. Indra as usual wanted to test the penance and sent Indrani with other damsels to entice Brahmadeva. they pleased him by their excellent dramatic performance. On his asking them to choose a boon, they requested him to pay regard to them and wine. Thinking that wine was mere water, he drank it and enjoyed himself in the company of the damsels losing the merit of the whole of his penance. They staged dramatic performance in all the four directions which Brahmadeva witnessed by putting faces in all the four directions. Since then he became famous by the name agte. The story of Indra is the usual story of his mis. behaviour with अहिल्या, the wife of गौतम, as a result of which he had his body made full of one thousand holes which afterwards were converted into eyes by a special favour of TITA. It appears that the Gujarati translator had a reading like fea t before him. St. 131 faccaro ( Sk. fasthra ) aversion. qur is the Prakrit affix for the Sanskrit ca in the sense of nature.
