Hindu mythology, Vedic and Purānic . which the interrogative pronounoccurred were called Kadvat, , having kad or soon a new adjective was formed, and not onlythe hymns, but the sacrifices also, offered to the god,were called Kaya, or Who-ish. At the time ofPanini (the great grammarian), this word had acquiredsuch legitimacy as to call for a separate rule explaining-its formation. The commentator here explains Kaby Brahman. After this, we can hardly wonder thatin the later Sanskrit literature of the Puranas, Kaappears as a recognized god, with a genealogy of his 496 MISCELLANEOUS M
Hindu mythology, Vedic and Purānic . which the interrogative pronounoccurred were called Kadvat, , having kad or soon a new adjective was formed, and not onlythe hymns, but the sacrifices also, offered to the god,were called Kaya, or Who-ish. At the time ofPanini (the great grammarian), this word had acquiredsuch legitimacy as to call for a separate rule explaining-its formation. The commentator here explains Kaby Brahman. After this, we can hardly wonder thatin the later Sanskrit literature of the Puranas, Kaappears as a recognized god, with a genealogy of his 496 MISCELLANEOUS MINOR DEITIES. own, perhaps even a wife ; and that in theJaws of Manuone of the recognized forms of marriage, generallyknown by the name of the Prajapati marriage, occursunder the monstrous title of Kaya. * In the Maha-bharata Ka is identified with Daksha, and in the Bha-gavata Purana it is applied to Kasyapa, probablyon account of their similarity to Prajapati. * Max-Miiller, quoted in Dowsons Classical Dictionary, • • Ka ?. *-^ CHAPTER XI. superhuman, though not divine beings. Apsaras and Gandharvas. The Apsaras are nymphs, and the Gandharvas chor-isters in Indras heaven. The Apsaras are not as aclass prominently noticed in the Vedas, but Urvasiand a few others are mentioned by name. In theInstitutes of Manu they are said to be the creationsof the Seven Manus, the progenitors of mankind. Inthe Epic poems more is said about them—the Rama-yana attributing thei- origin to the churning of theocean, and with this the Puranic account of their ori-gin agrees. It is srid that when they rose from thewaters neither gods nor asuras would wed them, sathey became the common property of both are sometimes called the wives of the gods,and daughters of pleasure.: * Then from the agitated deep up sprungThe legion of Apsarasas, so namedThat to the watery element they owedTheir being. Myriads were they born, and allIn vestures heavenly clad, and heavenly gems ,Yet more di
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