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THE HINDOO MYTHOLOGY. 55
divided into twelve round parts. Sooryu was enraged, and
could not be pacified till his father-in-law informed him
that his daughter, unable to bear the glory of his rays, had
forsaken him. On enquiring where she was gone, the
father said he had sent her back to him immediately on her
arrival, but that where she now was he could not say.
Sooryu, by the power of dhyanu p, perceived that Sfrvurna
had become a mare, and was gone into some forest. The
story here becomes too obscene for insertion.------Sooryu
and Su.vu.rna, in the forms of a horse and a mare, had two
children, to whom they gave the names of ftshwinee
and Koomaru i. When Sooryu returned to his palace, he
asked his wife who this woman (Chaya) was. She gave
him her history, and presented her to him as a wife; and
from that time Chaya was acknowledged as SoSryii's second
wife.
There are no temples dedicated to Sooryu in Bengal.
The heaven of this god is called Sooryu-loku. A race of
Hindoo kings, distinguished as the descendants of the sun,
once reigned in India; of which dynasty Ikshwakoo was the
first king, and Ramu the sixty-sixth.
The following are the principal names of Sooryu: Sooru,
or, he who dries up the earth.—Sooryu, he who travels, he
who sends men to their work.—Dwadushatma, he who
assumes twelve forms1.—Divakum, the maker of the day.
—Bhaskuru, the creator of the light.—Vivusw&t, the
p When the old Hindoo ascetics wished to ascertain a fact, they per-
formed what is called dhyanu, viz. they shut their eyes, and began to
meditate, when, it is said, the information they sought was revealed to
them.
, That is, the sons of a mare: these are now physicians to the gods.
• Alluding to his progress through the twelve signs.
divided into twelve round parts. Sooryu was enraged, and
could not be pacified till his father-in-law informed him
that his daughter, unable to bear the glory of his rays, had
forsaken him. On enquiring where she was gone, the
father said he had sent her back to him immediately on her
arrival, but that where she now was he could not say.
Sooryu, by the power of dhyanu p, perceived that Sfrvurna
had become a mare, and was gone into some forest. The
story here becomes too obscene for insertion.------Sooryu
and Su.vu.rna, in the forms of a horse and a mare, had two
children, to whom they gave the names of ftshwinee
and Koomaru i. When Sooryu returned to his palace, he
asked his wife who this woman (Chaya) was. She gave
him her history, and presented her to him as a wife; and
from that time Chaya was acknowledged as SoSryii's second
wife.
There are no temples dedicated to Sooryu in Bengal.
The heaven of this god is called Sooryu-loku. A race of
Hindoo kings, distinguished as the descendants of the sun,
once reigned in India; of which dynasty Ikshwakoo was the
first king, and Ramu the sixty-sixth.
The following are the principal names of Sooryu: Sooru,
or, he who dries up the earth.—Sooryu, he who travels, he
who sends men to their work.—Dwadushatma, he who
assumes twelve forms1.—Divakum, the maker of the day.
—Bhaskuru, the creator of the light.—Vivusw&t, the
p When the old Hindoo ascetics wished to ascertain a fact, they per-
formed what is called dhyanu, viz. they shut their eyes, and began to
meditate, when, it is said, the information they sought was revealed to
them.
, That is, the sons of a mare: these are now physicians to the gods.
• Alluding to his progress through the twelve signs.