Hindu mythology, Vedic and Purānic . ites wrought in heavens behalf, and madeTen nights of one. the gods to Anasuya, then joins with her husband in welcomingthe exiles to their hermitage, and, delighted with theprincess, tells her to ask a boon. As, however, Sitaappeared to want nothing particular, the aged saintsaid— My gift to-dayThy sweet contentment shall repay :Accept this precious robe to wear,Of heavenly fabric, rich and rare ;These gems thy limbs to precious balsam sweet of scent. * Griffithss Ramayana, ii, 468. f Ibid, ii, 473. DAKSHA. 385 O Maithil dame
Hindu mythology, Vedic and Purānic . ites wrought in heavens behalf, and madeTen nights of one. the gods to Anasuya, then joins with her husband in welcomingthe exiles to their hermitage, and, delighted with theprincess, tells her to ask a boon. As, however, Sitaappeared to want nothing particular, the aged saintsaid— My gift to-dayThy sweet contentment shall repay :Accept this precious robe to wear,Of heavenly fabric, rich and rare ;These gems thy limbs to precious balsam sweet of scent. * Griffithss Ramayana, ii, 468. f Ibid, ii, 473. DAKSHA. 385 O Maithil dame ! this gift of mineShall make thy limbs with beauty , breathing oer thy frame, dispenseIts pure and lasting balsam, on thy fair limbs spread,New radiance on thy lord shall shed,As Lakshmis beauty lends a graceTo Vishnus own celestial face. * 8. DAKSHA. Daksha, the father of Uma, the consort of Siva, hasattained pre-eminence amongst his brethren largelythrough the greatness of liis son-in-law. He, too, is a. mind-born son of Brahma; or, according to otheraccounts, sprang from the thumb of his father. He is * Griffiths Ramayana, ii, , HM 25 3$<5 THE INFERIOR DEITIES. one of the chief Prajapatis. Before speaking of Dak-sha, as the term Prajapati is of frequent occurrence,it will not be out of place here to describe the positionof-these beings. The term Prajapati means a lord of creatures ; thePrajapatis, therefore, are regarded as the progenitorsofimankind. The word is used in much the same man-ner as Patriarch in the Christian Scriptures. Some-times Brahma alone is intended by the term Praja-pati .; he is the lord of creatures ; sometimes it isemployed for the first-formed men from whom thehuman race sprang. The word was originally em-ployed as an epithet of Savitri and Soma, as well as ofHiranyagarbha, or Brahma. It afterwards, however,came to denote a separate deity, who appears in threeplaces in the Rig-Veda. Prajapati is sometimes iden-tifi
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