op the HINDUS, 279 



Chaitra : 



or Vaifdc'ha, 

 I. 



II. Dagdhd* 

 III. 

 IV. 

 V. 

 VI. 

 VII* 

 VIII. 

 IX. 

 X. 

 XI. 

 XII. 



XIH. Varum, a. 

 XIV. Angaraca dinam. h* 

 XV. 



<?. So called from Vdruna, or the lunar conftdlation SatahbiJIia : when 

 it falls on Saturday, it is named Mahdvdrun), Bathing by day and at night 

 in the Gcingd, 



Scdnda. 



b. Sacred, I believe, to the planet Mangala. " A branch' of Snubi (Eu- 

 " phorbid) in a whitened veffel, placed with a red flagon the houfetop, on 

 " the fourteenth of the dark half of Chaitra, drives away fin and difeafe. 



Raja mdrtanda, 



