SIIIIIIAGNA (of good fortune) was an only child, a maiden widow. It is related of her in a Hindu legend, that, having learned from her pre ceptor the solar incantation, incautiously repeat ; . .
nig it, the sun appeared and embraced her, and she thence became pregnant. The affliction of her father was diminished when he discovered the parent. Nevertheless (as others might be less charitable), he sent her with a female attend ant to Balabhipura, where she was delivered of twins, male and female. When grown up the boy was sent to school, but, being plagned about his birth, whence Ile received the nickname of Ghaibi (concealed) in a fit of irritation he ono day threatened to 'kill his mother if site refused to disclose the author of his existence. At this moment the sun revealed Ithnself ; he gave the youth a pebble, with which it was sufficient to touch his companions in order to overcome them. Being carried before the Bantam. prince, who menaced Ghaibi, the latter slew him with the pebble, and became himself sovereign of Saurash tra, taking the name of Silladitya (from Silla, a stone or pebble, and Aditya, the sun). His
sist,er was married to the raja of Baroach. We are struck by the similarity of production of these Hindu Ileliadm, and that of the Tatar dynasty from which Chengiz Khan was descended. The Nooranyon, or children of light, were from an amour of the sun with Elaucua, from which Chengriz Khan was the ninth in descent. Authorities quoted by Petis de la. Croix, in his life of this conqueror, and likewise by Marigny, his history of the Saracens, affirm Chenoiz Khan to be a descendant of Yezdejird, the last°Sa.ssanian prince. Chengiz was an idolater, and hated the very name of 31u hammadan. A courtier telling Aurangzeb of his celestial ancestry, gravely quoting the affair of the mother of the race of Titnur wall the sun, the monarch replied, 31ama cabs, bood.'—TodsRajas than, i. p. 234.