SECTION LXVIII. (continued 1)
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Valmiki and Dutt, Manmatha Nath
Source notes
[319]
A kind of ornament worn on the ears.—T.
[320]
Grammar, Prosody, astronomy, pronounciation, the meaning of the unusual terms and the ritual of the Hindu religion.—T.
[321]
Refers to Rāvana, Pulastya being his father—T.
[322]
A kind of crane.—T.
[323]
The God of wealth or Pluto in Greek myth.—T.
[324]
The allusion is—the mighty Asura Vitra fought with Indra for a long time even after he had his one hand chopped off.—T.
[325]
A kind of ornament worn on ears.—T.
[326]
A fabulous tree granting everything desired.—T.
[327]
A monument or sculpture raised in honor of a deceased person on the site of a funeral pyre.—T.
[328]
Prajāpitis are the lords of the created beings first created by Brahmā.—T.
[329]
Heavenly singers and musicians who belong to the heaven of Indra.—T.
[330]
Serpent-gods who dwell in the regions under the earth.
[331]
The wife of the sun.—T.
[332]
An exclamation used in making an oblation to the Gods. A personification of the preceding as the wife of fire and Goddess presiding over burnt offerings.—T.
[333]
Another name of Indra—the lord of the celestials.—T.
[334]
The proper expression, I think, should be—"Eat me." The commentator Rāmānuja explains Atmanam as your own bodies.—T.
[335]
In the south is the region of Yama, the God of Death and hence his going to the South is not an auspicious sign.—T.
[336]
Rāvana's brother.—T.
[337]
Rāvana's son—the name signifies the conqueror of the lord of the celestials.—T.
[338]
The sections 28 and 29 are not found in all the texts. They are found in Bengal edition. Gorressio translates it and remarks—"I think the chapter XXVIII—The auspicious signs—is an addition, a later interpolation by the Rhapsodists. It has no bond of connection either with what precedes or follows it and may be struck out without injury." We have however thought it proper to give a full version.—T.