considerable change had come in the character of the ideal woman. Or it may be that the writer of the Padma wished to give a better ideal to the wives of his day.

In a legend in the "Varaha Purana," Sarasvati is addressed as Gayatri, Sarasvati, Maheshvari (one of the names of Parvati), and also Savitri. Her most common name is Sarasvati, by which name, as the goddess of learning, she is regularly worshipped once a year.

Footnotes

^99:* "Dharma Shastra," chaps. i.--v.

^99:+ According to the "Brahma Purana," another name, Apava (who sports on the waters), is given Brahma, which has a similar, though not identical, application with Narayana. Apava, according to that Purana, divided himself into two parts, male and female, from whom proceeded Vishnu, who in his turn created Viraj, who brought the first man into the world. Wilson says, "According to the commentator on this passage, the first stage was the creation of Apava, or Vishistha, or Viraj by Vishnu, through the agency of Brahma; and the next was the creation of Manu by Viraj."--Dowson, s.v. "Apave."

^100:* Muir, O. S. T., iv. 31.

^100:+ Page 18.

^100:++ In later writings Vishnu, in a special incarnation, is said to have assumed this form.

^100: section Kennedy's "Hindu Mythology," p. 317.

^101:* See Part ii. chap. x.

^101:+ The "Bhagavata Purana" says there was another son from this marriage, named Priyavrata. Being dissatisfied with the work of the Sun because he illuminated only one-half of the world at a time, he followed him seven times in a flaming chariot of equal velocity, like another sun, and thus turned night into day. Brahma stopped him. The ruts made by his chariot wheels became the seven oceans; and thus the seven continents were made.--Dowson.

^101:++ Kennedy's "Hindu Mythology," p. 273.

^103:* Kennedy's "Hindu Mythology," p. 276.

^105:* Kennedy's "Hindu Mythology," p. 276.

^105:+ Page 102.

^105:++ Page 496.

^106:* Ward, ii. 30.

^106:+ Kennedy's "Hindu Mythology," p. 271.

^107:* Dowson, s.v.

^108:* Wilson's Works, ii. 187.

^109:* Muir, O. S. T., v. 339.

^110:* Muir, O. S. T., y. 337 ff.

^111:* Kennedy, "Hindu Mythology," p. 320.

^113:* Lakshmi is the goddess of fortune.