SECTION LXVIII. (continued 1)
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Valmiki and Dutt, Manmatha Nath
Source notes
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i. e. it was greater.—T.
[200]
Offspring uf Vinatā, Garuda's mother.—T.
[201]
Hanu—means jaw. Hanumān means—he with the (fractured) jaw.— T.
[202]
Hanumān.—T.
[203]
Sugriva.—T.
[204]
Here is another epithet of Hanumān—Pavamātmaja—son unto the Wind-god. Left out on the score of redundency.—T.
[205]
i. e. pertaining to leaping.—T.
[206]
Vāsava, Indra, carries celestial ambrosia, and Brahmā, that which is the aliment in Yoga—or spiritual rapture.—T.
[207]
i. e. practise austerities on thy behalf.—T.
[208]
Through the voices of the animals inhabiting it. — T.
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Hanumān—T.
[210]
Bull.—T.
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Pavana. The commentator takes this word in its literal meaning. He that purifieth contemplative spirits by imparting knowledge. Rāmānuya would interpret the epithet as meaning Rāma. This is reading into the author a sense which the passage does not plainly yeild.—T.
[212]
Another reading is: sa mahāsatwasannāda—The clans of these mighty creatures.—T
[213]
Parihāra, according to Kataka, implies excellence. Tirtha says it means bracelets. I follow him.—T.
[214]
Above his shoulders.—T.
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The legend is that Indra or Mahendra—i. e. Indra the Great—once took into his head to clip the pinnions of all the mountains. Hence the fright—T.
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Parvatasthāvivānalam—like two fires on a mountain. It evidently means two active craters in a mountain. At least this rendering, without missing in sense, imparts a material sublimity to the passage rarely paralleled in literature. The commentator, however, takes the word to mean forest-conflagration.—T.
[217]
Under water.—T.
[218]
by his progress.—T.