![]() ![]() These Asuras with their cities were there burnt up by Rudra.’Ģ) The second of these triumphs is the destruction of Dakshan’s sacrifice. Bestower of honor, destroy the Daityas with their cities, and deliver the worlds.” He, being thus addressed, said, “So be it ” and making Vishnu his arrow, Agni its barb, Yama, the son of Vivasvat, its feather, all the Vedas his bow, and the excellent Savitri (the Gayatri) his bowstring, and having appointed Brahma his charioteer, he in due time pierced through these cities with a three-jointed three-barbed arrow, of the colour of the sun, and in fierceness like the fire which burns up the world. Then all the great gods, distressed, went to Rudra as their refuge, and said to him, after they were assembled: “Rudra, there shall be victims devoted to thee in all sacrifices. ‘There were in the sky three cities of the Asuras, one of iron, another of silver, and a third of gold, which Indra could not demolish, with all his weapons. I give an abstract of this story from Muir:. In this lyric FIVE GREAT TRIUMPHS OF CIVAN are celebrated.ġ) The first of these (I-4) is the destruction of the three towns, in Tami and Sanskrit Tripura, which is curiously enough made to be the name of a giant overthrown by Civan. ![]() ![]() It seems to mean ‘the players at a game resembling battledore and shuttlecock.’ The word Unthi is, I imagine, used for the shuttlecock or ball which the players cause to ‘fly aloft.’ Tamil scholars give different interpretations of the word Unthiyar. ![]()
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