121:17 The passage is, ### Whose sons they are does not appear; the object being, according to the comment, to specify only the eleven divisions or modifications of the youngest Rudra, Twasht́a.' We have, however, an unusual variety of reading here in two copies of the comment: 'The eleven Rudras, in whom the family of Twasht́ri (a synonyme, it may be observed, sometimes of Viswakarmá) is included, were born. The enumeration of the Rudras ends with Aparájita, of whom Tryambaka is the epithet.' Accordingly the three last names in all the other copies of the text are omitted in these two; their places being supplied by the three first, two of whom are always named in the lists of the Rudras. According to the Váyu and Bráhma P. the Rudras are the children of Kaśyapa by Surabhi: the Bhágavata makes them the progeny of Bhúta and Sarúpá: the Matsya, Padma, and Hari V., in the second series, the offspring of Surabhi by Brahmá. The names in three of the Pauráńic authorities run thus:

Váyu.

Matsya.

Bhágavata.

Ajaikapád

Ajaikapád

Ajaikapád

Ahirvradhna

Ahirvradhna

Ahirvradhna

Hara

Hama

Ugra

Nirrita

Nirritti

Bhíma

Íśwara

Pingala

Váma

Bhuvana

Dahana

Mahán

Angáraka

Aparájita

Bahurúpa

Arddhaketu

Mrigavyádha

Vrishakapi

Mrityu

Senání

Aja

Sarpa

Sajja

Bhava

Kapálí

Kapálí

Raivata.

[paragraph continues] The Bráhma or Hari V., the Padma, the Linga, &c. have other varieties; and the Lexicons have a different reading from all, as in that of Jat́ádhara they are Ajaikapad, Ahivradhna, Virúpaksha, Sureśwara, Jayanta, Bahurúpaka, Tryambaka, Aparájita, Vaivaśwata, Śávitra, and Hara. The variety seems to proceed from the writers applying to the Rudras, as they may legitimately do, different appellations of the common prototype, or synonymes of Rudra or Śiva, selected at will from his thousand and eight names, according to the Linga P.

121:18 The posterity of Daksha's daughters p. 122 by Dharma are clearly allegorical personifications chiefly of two classes, one consisting of astronomical phenomena, and the other of portions or subjects of the ritual of the Vedas.