[51] The author, if even no Zoroastrian, seems to allude here to _Honover_, “pure desire,” a general name for “the word of Ormuzd;” it existed before all the good and evil beings created by Ormuzd and by Ahriman; it was by pronouncing it that the first triumphed over the latter, and continued to extend and to protect the creation (_Zend-Avesta_, I. 2 P. pp. 85. 138. 140. 412. II. 347. 348. and elsewhere).――A. T. [52] The Sri Bhagavat mentions the birth of this celebrated sage in the Satya Yog, in the heaven of Brahma, from whose mind he was born; the Kalika puranah gives an account of another birth in the Padma Kalpa, when his father’s name was Mitra Varúna, and his mother’s Kúmbha. The Ramáyana mentions him as priest to the kings of the solar race for many ages. This philosopher taught in substance the doctrines of the Vedanta school. He is said to have had ten thousand disciples. (_Ward, on the Hindoos_, vol. IV. p. 19.)――D. S. [53] Rĭshi, a kind of saint; that holy and superhuman personage which a king or man of the military class may become by the practice of religious austerities. Seven classes of Rishis are enumerated: the _Dévarshi_, _Brahmarshi_, _Maharshi_, _Paramarshi_, _Rájarshi_, _Kándarshi_, and _Srutarshi_: the order is variously given, but the Rájarshi is inferior to the four preceding ones, and the two last appear to be the inspired saints of the Hindoo mythology.――D. S. The simple name is especially applied to seven sages of the Bráhmarshi order, contemporary with each of the seven Menus; those of the present Manvantara are: _Marichi_, _Atri_, _Angiras_, _Pulastya_, _Pulaha_, _Kratu_, and _Vasishta_. The names of each series differ: those specified also form, in astronomy, the asterism of the Greater Bear (_Wilson_).――A. T. [54] This name, repeated in the Dabistán (see hereafter the chapter upon the Nanak Panthians), never occurred to me elsewhere.――A. T. [55] The name of a saint celebrated in Hindu mythology, more usually entitled _Agastya_, the son of both _Mitra_ (the sun) and _Varuna_ (the lord of waters) by _Urvasi_ (a nymph of heaven); he is represented of short stature, and is said by some to have been born in a water-jar: he is famed for having swallowed the ocean, when it had given him offence; at his command also the Vindhya range of mountains prostrated itself, and so remains; hence his present appellation: he is also considered as the regent of the star Canopus――(_Wilson’s Dictionary_, _sub voce_).――A. T.