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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">1069. The Kámbojas are said to be the people of Arachosia. They are always mentioned with the north-western tribes. 1070. “The term Yavanas, although, in later times, applied to the Mohammedans, designated formerly the Greeks.… The Greeks were known throughout Western Asia by the term Yavan, or Ion. That the Macedonian or Bactrian Greeks were most usually intended is not only probable from their position and relations with India, but from their being usually named in concurrence with the north-western tribes, Kámbojas, Daradas, Páradas, Báhlíkas, Śakas &c., in the Rámáyaṇa. Mahábhárata, Puránas, Manu, and in various poems and plays.” Wilson's Vishṇu Puráṇa Vol. II. p. 181, Note. 1071. These people, the Sakai and Sacæ of classical writers, the Indo-Scythians of Ptolemy, extended, about the commencement of our era, along the west of India, from the Hindu Kosh to the mouths of the Indus. 1072. The corresponding passage in the Bengal recension has instead of Varadas Daradas the Dards or inhabitants of the modern Dardistan along the course of the Indus, above the Himálayas, just before it descends to India. 1073. From the word yonder it would appear that the prayer is to be repeated at the rising of the Sun. 1074. The creator of the world and the first of the Hindu triad. 1075. He who pervades all beings; or the second of the Hindu triad who preserves the world. 1076. The bestower of blessings; the third of the Hindu triad and the destroyer of the world. 1077. A name of the War-God; also one who urges the senses to action. 1078. The lord of creatures; or the God of sacrifices. 1079. A name of the King of Gods; also all-powerful. 1080. The giver of wealth. A name of the God of riches. 1081. One who directly urges the mental faculties to action. 1082. One who moderates the senses, also the God of the regions of the dead. 1083. One who produces nectar (amrita) or one who is always possessed of light; or one together with Umá (Ardhanáríśvara). 1084. The names or spirits of departed ancestors. 1085. Name of a class of eight Gods, also wealthy. 1086. They who are to be served by Yogís; or a class of Gods named Sádhyas. 1087. The two physicians of the Gods: or they who pervade all beings. 1088. They who are immortal; or a class of Gods forty-nine in number. 1089. Omniscient; or the first king of the world. 1090. He that moves; life; or the God of wind. 1091. The God of fire. 1092. Lord of creatures. 1093. One who prolongs our lives. 1094. The material cause of knowledge and of the seasons. 1095. One who shines. The giver of light. 1096. The hymn entitled the Ádityahridaya begins from this verse and the words, thou art, are understood in the beginning of this verse. 1097. One who enjoys all (pleasurable) objects; The son of Aditi, the lord of the solar disk. 1098. One who creates the world, i.e., endows beings with life or soul, and by his rays causes rain and thereby produces corn. 1099. One who urges the world to action or puts the world in motion, who is omnipresent. 1100. One who walks through the sky; or pervades the soul. 1101. One who nourishes the world, i.e., is the supporter. 1102. One having rays (Gabhasti) or he who is possessed of the all-pervading goddess Lakshmí. 1103. One resembling gold. 1104. One who is resplendent or who gives light to other objects. 1105. One whose seed (Retas) is gold; or quicksilver, the material cause of gold. 1106. One who is the cause of day. 1107. One whose horses are of tawny colour; or one who pervades the whole space or quarters. 1108. One whose knowledge is boundless or who has a thousand rays. 1109. One who urges the seven (Práṇas) that is the two eyes, the two ears, the nostrils and the organ of speech, or whose chariot, is drawn by seven horses. 1110. Vide Gabhastimán. 1111. One who destroys darkness, or ignorance. 1112. One from whom our blessings or the enjoyments of Paradise come. 1113. The architect of the gods; or one who lessens the miseries of our birth and death. 1114. One who gives life to the lifeless world. 1115. One who pervades the internal and external worlds; or one who is resplendent. 1116. He who is identified with the Hindu triad, i.e. the creator (Brahmá) the supporter (Vishnu) and the destroyer (Śiva). 1117. Cold or good natured. He is so called because he allays the three sorts of pain. 1118. One who is the lord of all. 1119. Vide Divákara. 1120. One who teaches Brahmá and others the Vedas. 1121. One from whom Rudra the destroyer or the third of the Hindu triad springs. 1122. One who is knowable through Aditi, i.e., the eternal Brahmavidyá. 1123. Great happiness or the sky. 1124. The destroyer of cold or stupidity. 1125. The Lord of the sky. 1126. Vide Timironmathana. 1127. One who is known through the Upanishads. 1128. He who is the cause of heavy rain. 1129. He who is a friend to the good, or who is the cause of water. 1130. One who moves in the solar orbit. 1131. One who determines the creation of the world; or who is possessed of heat. 1132. One who has a mass of rays; or who has Kaustubha and other precious stones as his ornaments. 1133. He who urges all to action; or who is yellow in colour. 1134. One who is the destroyer of all. 1135. One who is omniscient; or a poet. 1136. One who is identified with the whole world. 1137. One who is of huge form. 1138. One who pleases all by giving nourishment; or who is red in colour. 1139. One who is the cause of the whole world. 1140. One who protects the whole world. 1141. The most glorious of all that are glorious. 1142. One who is identical with the twelve months. 1143. One who gives victory over all the worlds to those who are faithfully devoted to him; or the porter of Brahmá, named Jaya. 1144. One who is identical with the blessing which can be obtained by conquering all the worlds; or with the porter of Brahmá named Jayabhadra. 1145. One who has Hanúmán as his conveyance. 1146. One who controls the senses; or is furious with those who are not his devotees. 1147. He who is free in moving the senses; or urges all beings to action. 1148. He who can be known through the Pranava (the mystical Om-kára.) 1149. One who is the knowledge of Brahmá. 1150. One who devours all things. 1151. He who is the destroyer of all pains; and of love, and hate, the causes of pain; and ignorance which is the cause of love and hate. 1152. One who is bliss; or the mover. 1153. One who destroys ignorance and its effects. 1154. The doer of all actions. 1155. One who beholds the universe; who is a witness of good and bad actions. 1156. Sacrifice of the five sensual fires. 1157. According to Ápastamba (says the commentator) “it should have been placed on the nose: this must therefore have been done in conformity with some other Sútras.” 1158. A class of eight gods. 1159. A class of eleven gods called Rudras. 1160. Named Víryaván. 1161. A class of divine devotees named Sádhyas. 1162. One who resides in the water. 1163. The third incarnation of Vishṇu, that bore the earth on his tusk. 1164. One whose armies are everywhere. 1165. One who controls the senses. 1166. He who resides in the heart, or who is full, or all-pervading. 1167. Vámana, or the Dwarf incarnation of Vishṇu. 1168. The killer of Madhu, a demon. 1169. He from whose navel, the lotus, from which Brahmá was born, springs. 1170. He who has a thousand horns. The horns are here the Sákhás of the Sáma-veda. 1171. One who has a hundred heads. The heads are here meant to devote a hundred commandments of the Vedas. 1172. Siddhas are those who have already gained the summit of their desires. 1173. Sádhyas are those that are still trying to gain the summit. 1174. A mystic syllable uttered in Mantras. 1175. A mystic syllable made of the letters which respectively denote Brahmá, Vishṇu, and Śiva. 1176. A class of divine gods. 1177. Sanskáras are those sacred writings through which the divine commands and prohibitions are known. 1178. Bali, a demon whom Vámana confined in Pátála. 1179.