OLY 
high point ies y and ae and had frequent 
quarrels ns, Lacedemon, and the kings of t 
latter ftate, palit we Philip, who deftroyed it, fo that 
. was n cael resltablithed. This deftruction 
ook place in ache yea and from an epigram of 
Antipater of Sidon, oo lived aes the year 146 before 
that era, it appears that i : had a kind of renewal, by fome 
power of which we br no certain account, nor do 
know how long it la 
OLYRA, i jee a name borrowed by Linnzus for 
the prefent genus, and taken from 
r, He 
with cyxevQies), fignifying, bread made of th 
Linn Schreb. 624. Willd. 5 
Swartz Obf. 346. Mart. Mill. Dict. v. 3. 
Kew. ed. 1. v. 3. 325. Juff. 33. Lamarck Did. v. 4 
546. Tutte. t. 571. Loureir. Cochinch. v. 2. 551-— 
Clafs and order, Monoecia Triandria. Nat. Ord. Gra- 
mina. 
h. Male flowers yess the female. Cal. Glume 
ual, lanceolate valves; outer 
inating in a capillary, wa ne {mooth 
rrower, acute, folded in on both fi ik 
very {m all, "of two, obovate, ne ak 
Stam. Filaments te, 
pointed. Cor. 
than the 
Eff. Ch. Male, psrater nee Perini) awaed. 
pa none. Female, Calyx-glume fingle-flowered, 
{preading, ovate, awned. Glume of the ag two-valved, 
oar Style cloven. Seed cartilaginou 
O. paniculata. Willd. n. 1. Swartz Ob. 347. (O. 
tatfolia Linn. Sp. Pl. 1379. ad. v. 5. 408. 
men paniceum majus, ipica ee lev. granis petiolis 
infidentibus 5 Sloane Hi m. v. .f2 Ste 
branched. Panicle terminal. = Native of aes in dry, 
high, jointed, round, 
fimple. Leaves fheathing, flightly ftalked, broadifh-lan- 
ceolate, at horizontal, {preading, ra ftriated ; 
fheaths dow anicle terminal, erect, {fpreading, many- 
flowered, its iene angular, rough, wavy. 
. O. pauciflora. Willd. n. 2, Swartz Prodr. 2 Ind. 
Occ. v.1. 125. (Gramen Cab axillaribus, foliie ovatis ; ; 
Loefl. It. Am 3.)——Flowers axillary. — Nativ 
wo maica, where it flowers in the oots 
{preading, nearly ereét, fimple, jointed, round, 
fee Leaves fheat pee alternate, ftalked 
ovato-lanceolate, acute, flightly ft , downy, rough at 
the margins; fheaths a little ne “Fl lowers “falls lateral 
O*M 
from the fheaths, thread-fhaped, fhort, bearing both male 
and female flowers. 
3 O. orientalis n. 3. Loureir. Cochinch. v. 2. 
Spi kes al Saree Seeds trian- 
Stem et 
Strabo. 
OLZIANY, a town of Lithuania; 30 miles S.S.E. of 
ilna. 
awful monofylabe is trilitersl, ‘and per 
written auM, for three Sanfcrit letters ie in fa&t compofe 
- but in pe to avoid cacophony, A and v coalefce 
' e firft letter is fuppofed to be fymbolical of 
Brahma, the creative po of the Deity; the fecond of 
Vifhnu, the preferver ; and the laft of Siva, the deftroyer or 
renovator: for Hindoo hilotephets maintain that deftruc- 
tion is only reproduction in another form. (See Siva and 
As all the inferior deities of the Hindoos are 
taras or manifeftations of, and refolve themfelves into 
ake cee, {uperior powers, fo thofe fuperior powers refolve 
je aa ey eae! into Brahm, or the fupreme being, 
of w nis the moft perfect and glorious murti, or 
image. (See Mun rt1.) A combination of the three fymboli- 
cal ten forms, therefore, a hieroglyphical reprefentation of 
the union of the three powers or attributes, and a word that, 
if uttered, would be nearly expreffed by our letters aum, or 
A e of 
0oM, saya? a little on each lepter. nam Parvati, 
the confort of Siva - is — or a, and it is perhaps 
hence derivable ; as w ne of th ft facred 
mkar 
places of pilgrimage i in India, dedicated to the worfhip of 
this myfterious 
n the inftitutes of Menu (fee Men a) many verfes = 
denoting the importance of hig ‘monofyllable, and of a tex 
of the Veda fely conceal with it, called the Co 3 
refpeGting which we {hall in this article include alfo what we 
have to offer; together with fome remarks on fimilar mytti- 
aie iearba in other people. Among thofe verfes are 
the follow: 
Chap. ii. v. “a4. “ ie Brahman beginning and pe 
leGture on the Veda, always pronounce to himfelf the 
fyllable om: for ate if fyllable on precede, his learning 
will flip away from him; and unlefs it follow, nothin ng w will 
i i fays, ** As 
upreme Bra 
76.6 Brahma ilk out, as it were, from the three 
Ms the letter a, the letter u, and the letter m, which 
m by their co éciton the incall monofyllable, together 
ai three a s words, bhur, bhuva, and fwer.”’ ‘hefe 
words mean earth, fky, and heaven, and are called the 
vyahrit 
4 6c From the three Vedas, alfo, the Lord of creatures, 
incomprehenfibly exalted, fucceffively milked out the three 
eafures of that ineffable nee beginning with the word éad, 
and ee Savitri or Gayatr 
‘cA prieft who fhall ow the Veda, and fhall pro- 
nounce to himfelf, both morning and evening, that 5 aa 
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