354 The Birth of Uma— [Juny, 
So she, the sweet infant, appear’d: but full soon,— 
As daily new digits annex’d to the moon 
Give birth to new phases,—so she, day by day, 
Grew still to fresh forms of more lovely array. 
26. 
Her, dear to her kindred, the relatives all, 
As mountain king’s daughter, did P&rvatr’ call : 
But after, when bent upon mortification 
Most strict and religious, the fond deprecation 
Burst forth from her mother, ‘‘ Oh no !’”—thence it came 
That Um'a, ‘* Ob no!” was the lovely girl’s name, 
a a en Np pe 
There is therefore the accession of one of these for every Tithi or lunar day of 
the suxla-paxa, or waxing moon. 
St. 26. Pa’rvati'.—This feminine noun yyaqat is the regular patronymic deri- 
vative from Waa parvatas or “mountain.” The ascription of these two names, 
Parvati’ and Uma’, to the goddess im her second birth, is related at length in the 
Siva Purana, 2nd part (or wttara-khanda), 13th chapter. 
Ibid. When bent upon mortification, &c.—The same is told of Uma (as dis- 
tinguished from her elder sister Ganga), by Valmiki, Ramayana, I. cap. 37, St..19. 
—(Vol. i. p. 148, ed. Schlegel.) 
Ibid. That U-ma’ “‘ Oh no!” &c.—The latter Sanscrit particle gy md is (like its 
cognate me, © or 6 in Persic, uy in Greek) the dehortative ‘‘ no,” commonly prefix- 
ed to the imperative or optative mood ; as @ ma (the same with the Persic, Latin, 
and Teutonic particle) is the simple negative “no” or “not,” prefixed to the 
indicative. The former particle yw U, which is chiefly for want of an equivalent 
short word in English, rendered ‘‘ Oh’’—is one that is scarcely or ever seen in 
the ordinary classical language, though of very frequent occurrence in the older 
dialect of the Védas. There it may be found often annexed as if it were a termi- 
nation to the several cases of the demonstrative pronoun @7@, or to prepositions 
in composition, when in that ancient Sanscrit (as in Greek and in German, though 
the ¢mesis is not admissible in common Sanscrit), they are separated from their 
verbs* ; and not unfrequently annexed separately to verbs or to nouns, preceding 
or following :—in all these cases apparently bearing a meaning intensive of 
the word to which it is annexed,—viz. (that which so often belongs to the 
common wq) “ precisely” or “ merely.” Thus we find it in the following verses 
from the I’sd-vdsya Upanisad, which is the closing 40th chapter of the great San- 
hita of the Yasur Ve’pa, the Vaja-Sanéya-Sanhité of Dadichi Muni, which £ 
quote also as apposite to the subject of this stanza, to shew how the balance is care- 
fully struck between the active and contemplative duties, in this most venerable and 
ancient authority of Hinda religion (vv. 12, 13, 14, but in some copies 9, 10, 11). 
ee 
* Itis not therefore with perfect accuracy, that the learned F. Rosen, in his Specimen of the Rig- 
Veda, published at London in 1830, p. 6, describes udu for ut, and abhiidu for abhit, as mere variations 
or licenses of the most ancient language. They are rather the annexations to the universal form 
of this expressive particle U. 
