[194]The mother of the Nagas.
[195]According to tradition Valmiki obtained a boon from the goddess of learning and composed his great work Ramayana.
[196]Dwaipayana Vyasa was celebrated for his memory for he had by heart all the Vedas and Puranas.
[197]Knowledge of spirit which is regarded as the best of all forms of learning.
[198]The mystic name of the deity, prefacing all the prayers and most of the writings of the Hindus, from A a name of Vishnu, U Siva and Ma Brahma. It therefore implies the Indian triad and expresses the three in one.
[199]oblation with fire.
[200]The wife of the sage Vasistha.
[201]The queen of gods, the wife of Indra.

CHAPTER LIX. BIRTH OF KRISHNA AND BALADEVA.

Vaishampayana said:—Under these arrangements the celestial-like Devaki conceived for seven times as described before (1). Kansa killed the Sargarbhas by dashing them against a stone, as soon as they came out. The embryo of the seventh conception was transferred to Rohini (2). Once on a time at the dead of night while Rohini was sleeping a sound sleep there took place a discharge of blood followed by an abortion (3). Rohini, in a dream, saw the falling of her embryo and when she awoke, a little after, she was greatly pained on not seeing it (4). In that dark night Vasudeva's wife Rohini, resembling the moon, was worked up with great anxiety; thereat the goddess of sleep said to her (5). "O fair one, I have extracted the embryo out of Devaki's womb and placed it in yours. Therefore this your son will be celebrated by the name of Sangkarshana" (6). Obtaining that son she was pleased and with her head down she entered her own house like the beautiful wife of the moon (7).