[140] Mṛigâ iva hastinaḥ khâdathâ vanâ yad ârunîshu tavishîr ayugdhvam; _Ṛigv._ i. 64, 7.

[141] Mṛigo na hastî tavishîm ushâṇaḥ; _Ṛigv._ iv. 16, 14.

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[142] Dânâ mṛigo na vâraṇaḥ purutrâ ćarathaṁ dadhe; _Ṛigv._ viii. 33, 8.

Zoological Mythology (Volume II) — Part 54

[143] Yâhi râǵevâmavân ibhena; _Ṛigv._ iv. 4, 1.

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Monkey and bear are already associated together in India; Ǵambavant is a great monkey and the king of the bears.--Haris, kapis, kapilâ, kapidhvaǵas; ṛikshas, arkas, ursus, arktos, rakshas; the Great Bear; ṛishayas, harayas.--The Marutas as rivals of Indras; Vishṇus as Indras' rival; the monkeys allied to Vishṇus; the Vedic monster monkey killed by Indras; Haris or Vishṇus.--Harî mother of monkeys and horses.--Bâlin, king of the monkeys, son of Indras, defeated by his brother Sugrîvas, son of the sun.--Hanumant in opposition to Indras; Hanumant son of the wind; Hanumant as the brother of Sugrîvas; Hanumant is the strong brother or companion.--Hanumant flies; he presses the mountain and makes the waters come out of it; he draws the clouds after himself.--The epic monkeys and the Marutas.--The monkey and the water.--The monkeys and the salutary herbs.--The sea-monster draws to itself the shadow of Hanumant and swallows him; Hanumant comes out of the monster's body safe and sound; the mountain Hiraṇyanabhas.--Hanumant makes himself as small as a cat in order to search for Sîtâ; Hanumant proves his power to Sîtâ by making himself as large as a cloud or a mountain; he massacres the monsters with a pillar; Dadhyańć, Hanumant, Samson; Hanumant bound; he sets fire to Lañkâ with his tail.--The monkey sacrificed to cure the burns of horses.--Sîtâ has a weakness for Hanumant.--Dvividas a monster monkey.--The monkey destroys the sparrow's nest.--The monkey draws a king into the jaws of an aquatic monster.--The demoniacal monkey; monkey and fox.--The monkey deceiver.--Sinister omens of the monkey.--The monkey envies the fox's tail.--The stupid monkey.--The bear of the Marutas.--Triçañkus with the skin of a bear; the seven ṛishayas.--Ṛiksharâǵas; the moon as a reputed father.--Bears and monkeys in the forest of honey; Balarâmas; medvjed; the bear and the honey; Italian proverbs; the bear and the peasant; the deceived bear; the vengeance of the bear; the bear in the sack; the demoniacal bear; the bear and the fox; the monkey and the woodcutter; the bear and the trunk of a tree; the peasant and the gentleman; the death of the athlete Milôn; the bear entangled in the waggon that had fallen into the cistern.--The king bear, monster of the fountain; sons sacrificed to the bear by their father; the young men flee from the bear; the sleep of the bear.--The bear's cub.--The bear and women.--The hero-bear; the heroine she-bear.--The virgin she-bears.--Ursula, ṛikshikâ.--Ivanko Medviedko.--Kalistos.--The bear as a musician.--The quartette of animals.--Bear and monkey.--Bear and ass.--The monkey as a messenger, an intermediate form.