Chapter CII.
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Somadeva Bhatta, active 11th century and Tawney, C. H. (Charles Henry)
Source notes
14 Killed by Vishṇu in the form of a boar.
15 Another play on words. It may mean “was the son of the Páṇḍava Bhíma.”
16 I do not understand this allusion. Paṇḍit Ráma Chandra of Alwar points out that the reference is to one of the exploits of Arjuna Sahasrabáhu, often called Kártavíryya, which is related in the Uttara Káṇḍa of the Rámáyaṇa, Sarga 32.
17Anjana is a black pigment applied to the eyes.
18Vana might mean “water.”
19 Two of the India office MSS. read cha te datta-dútáḥ, the other reads cha taddattadútáḥ. I think these readings give a better sense. The king of the Mátangas is here Durgapiśácha.
20 I read samamánayat the conjecture of Dr. Kern. I find it in MS. No. 1882 and in 2166.
21 Being a man of high caste, he ate with men who had none, or next to none. Dr. Kern wishes to read kárye, but all the MSS. have káryam̱.
22 Compare the way in which king Melias receives the proposals of Osantrix in the 53rd chapter of the Wilkina Saga, (Hagen’s Helden-Sagen, Vol. I, p. 182.)
23 Or “of the mountains that retained their wings,” i. e., by taking refuge from Indra in the sea. The pun is, of course, most intentional.