Apsarases, 57, 198, 199, 229, 378.
Aptoryám, 24.
Arishta, 424, 425.
Aríshtanemi, 49, 245, 392.
Arjun, 86.
Arjuna, 518.
Arthasádhak, 14.
Arun, 246,
Arundhatí, 19, 244, 413.
Aryaman, 124.
Áryan, 92.
Asamanj, 50, 53, 82, 138, 220.
Asit, 81, 219.
Asok, 14, 175.
Asoka, 6, 10, 101, 205, 278, 296, 297, 300, 318, 321, 357, 403, 444, 452, 456.
Asta, 377, 379 note.
Asurs, 57, 58, 380, 381, 387, 394, 407, 413, 420.
Asvagríva, 246.
Asvamedh, 29, 236 note.
Asvapati, 89, 131, 178, 183.
Asvatarí, 346.
Asvin, 371.
Asvíní, 343.
Asvins, 28, 36, 60, 62, 163, 246, 339, 343, 403, 490.
Atikáya, 468, 478 ff.
Atirátra, 24.
Atri, 245, 561.
Aurva, 373 note.
Avantí, 374.
Avindhya, 415.
Ayodhyá, 4, 6, 11, 12, 14, 19, 32, 33, 38, 49, 70, 72, 79, 81, 83, 84, 85, 88, 95, 96, _passim_.
Ayomukh, 374.
Ayomukhi, 310.
Báhíka, 176.
Bahuputra, 245.
Bala, 264.
Bálakhilyas, 63, 235, 270, 271, 374.
Bali, 43, 59, 107, 275, 302, 421.
Báli, 5, 9, 29, 318, 324, 328, 329, 333 ff., 344, 356 ff., 362, 364, 366, 367, 379, 380, 391, 404, 412, 420, 440, 442, 448, 456, 458, 475, 478, 500, 503, 505.
Barbars, 66.
Beauty, 26, 29, 58, 88, 283, 455.
Bhadamadrá, 246.
Bhadra, 52.
Bhaga, 124, 243.
Bhagírath, 53, 54, 55, 82, 220, 372.
Bhágírathí, 56.
Bharadvája, 4, 7, 9, 10, 158, 159, 193, 196, 197, 199, 200, 201, 501.
Bharat, 4, 9, 10, 32, 81, 83, 84, 88, 89, 94, 97, _passim_.
Bharatas, 550.
Bhárunda, 178.
Bhásí, 246.
Bhásakarna, 420.
Bhava, 78.
Bhímá, 198.
Bhogavatí, 12 note, 267, 375.
Bhrigu, 40, 63, 73, 81, 85, 86, 88, 133, 220.
Brahmá, 6, 7, 10, 19, 25, 26, 33, 38, 39, 42, 46, 48, 54, 56, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 68, 74, 75, 77, 81, _passim_.
Brahmadatta, 46, 47.
Brahmádikas, 133 note.
Bhrahmamálas, 548.
Budha, 287.
Buddhist, 219.
Cancer, 109.
Ceylon, 375 note.
Chaitra, 91.
Chaitraratha, 41, 178, 199, 267, 279, 315, 493.
Chakraván, 376.
Champá, 30.
Chanda, 448.
Chandála, 69, 70.
Chandra, 464.
Chatushtom, 24.
Chitrá, 111, 250, 283.
Chitrakúta, 4, 9, 160, 161, 197, 200, 201, 202, 209, 235, 236, 317, 416, 501.
Chitraratha, 132.
Cholas, 549.
Chúli, 47.
Chyavan, 81, 220.
Dadhimukh, 426.
Dadhivakra, 364 note.
Daitya, 125, 152, 211, 246, 289, 306, 371, 418.
Daksha, 36, 78, 228, 245, 257, 396.
Dánav, 255, 270, 306, 307, 311, 371, 372, 382, 432, 443, 477.
Dandak, 9, 99, 103, 117, 124, 126, 130, 166, 181, 199, 211, 238, 271, 374.
Dandaká, 5.
Danú, 245, 246, 313.
Dapple skin, 64, 65.
Dardar, 110, 198.
Dardur, 448.
Darímukha, 371.
Dasárna, 374.
Dasáratha, 3, 9, 12, 14, 16, 18 ff., 25, 26, 29, 30, 32, 34, 41, 61, 62, 77, 79, 80 ff., 91, 92, 95, _passim_.
Dasyus, 444.
Devamídha, 82.
Devántak, 479, 480.
Devarát, 77, 82, 86.
Devasakhá, 378.
Devavatí, 515.
Dhanvantari, 57 note.
Dhanyamáliní, 481.
Dharmabhrit, 240.
Dharmapál, 14.
Dharmáranya, 46.
Dharmavardhan, 179.
Dhritaráshtrí, 246.
Dhrishtaketu, 82.
Dhrishti, 14, 202.
Dhruvasandhi, 81, 219.
Dhúmra, 371, 448.
Dhúmráksha, 433 note, 465, 466.
Dhúmrásva, 60, 481.
Dhundhumár, 81, 171, 219.
Dikshá, 44.
Dilípa, 5 note, 53, 54, 56, 82, 171, 190, 220.
Diti, 58, 59, 245, 246, 323.
Dragon, 101.
Dridhanetra, 68.
Drishti, 202.
Drona, 464.
Drumakulya, 444.
Dundubhi, 333, 335, 338.
Durdhar, 420.
Durdharsha, 433 note.
Durjaya, 256 note.
Durmukha, 432, 433 note.
Durvásas, 521.
Dúshan, 5, 250, 254, 255, 256, 258, 259, 261, 264, 265, 267-271, 294, 461, 502.
Dwida, 364 note.
Dwijihva, 474.
Dwivid, 371, 428, 430, 449, 451, 475, 483, 484.
Dwivida, 28.
Dyumatsena, 129.
Ekapádakas, 549.
Ekasála, 179.
Fame, 26, 283.
Fate, 42, 68, 70, 71, 81, 119, 122, 123, 130, 181, 182, 195, 256, 293, 296, 309, 343, 349, 351, 354, 386, 404, 415, 439, 492.
Fire, 2, 30, 45, 49, 218, 374.
Fortune, 2, 58, 90, 94, 124, 146, 160, 188, 242, 244, 283, 449, 453.
Fire-god, 74, 124, 328.
Gádhi, 40, 48, 63, 64, 67, 68.
Gaja, 364 note, 371, 429, 449, 459.
Gálava, 518.
Gandhamádan, 28, 159, 381, 429, 446, 476.
Gandharva, 199, 256, 258, 259, 278, 285, 351, 396, 425, 437, 441, 454, 466, 468, 491.
Gandharvas, 267, 270, 281, 283, 306, 307, 308, 318, 364, 370, 375, 377, 388, 394, 409, 420, 432, 449, 455, 472.
Gandharví, 246, 265.
Gangá, 7, 9, 37, 38, 45, 48, 49, _passim_.
Garga, 133.
Garud, 28, 29, 53, 246, 271, 373, 453, 465, 470, 475.
Gautam, 60, 61, 62, 505.
Gautama, 236.
Gaváksha, 364 note, 429, 449, 468, 475, 476.
Gavaya, 364 note, 371, 429, 448, 468.
Gaya, 482.
Gayá, 216.
Gáyatrí, 243.
Ghoralohamukhas, 548.
Ghritáchí, 46, 198, 367.
Girivraja, 46, 176.
Glory, 301.
Godávarí, 245, 247, 248, 249, 282, 303, 310, 374, 500.
Gokarna, 54.
Golabh, 351.
Gomatí, 151, 179, 448, 502, 503.
Gopa, 199.
Guha, 4, 9, 152-156, 162, 192, 193, 194, 208, 501.
Guhyakas, 378.
Háhá, 198.
Haihayas, 81, 219.
Hanúmán, 5, 9, 10, 28, 324 ff., 328, 332, 337, 340, 350, 355, 359, 360, 363, 364 note, 368, 371, 374, 378 ff., 392 ff., 411 ff., 424 ff., 449, 456.
Hara, 448.
Harí, 246.
Hárítas, 66.
Haryasva, 82.
Hástinapura, 176.
Hastiprishthak, 179.
Havishyand, 68.
Hayagriva, 346, 376.
Hemá, 198, 382.
Hemachandra, 60.
Heti, 515.
Himálaya, 3, 14, 45, 48, 49, 50, 53, 54, 61, 67, 76, 81, 88.
Himaváu, 380.
Hiranyakasipu, 391 note, 407.
Hiranyanábha, 500.
Hládini, 55, 178.
Honour, 283.
Hotri, 24.
Hrasvaromá, 82.
Huhú, 198.
Ikshumatí, 80, 176.
Ikshváku, 2, 11, 13, 18, 24, 25, 35, 59, 60, 69, 70, 71, 73, 81, 82, 83, 90, 94, 96, 103, 219, 390.
Ilval, 241.
Indra, 2, 5, 13, 14, 25, 28, 29, 36, 39, 40, 43 ff., 50, 56, _passim_.
Indrajánu, 371 note.
Indrajít, 420, 432, 436, 437, 441, 455, 459 ff., 482, 485.
Indrasatru, 433 note.
Indrasira, 178.
Irávatí, 246.
Jábáli, 505.
Jahnu, 55.
Jáhnaví, 49, 55, 154.
Jamadagni, 85, 86, 87, 119.
Jámbaván, 371, 374, 388, 391, 393, 402, 425, 428, 429, 439, 446, 448, 456, 464, 483, 503.
Jambudvip, 51, 373.
Jambumálí, 418, 419, 420, 459, 460.
Jambuprastha, 179.
Jámbuvatu, 364 note.
Janak, 4, 8, 9, 21, 45, 60, 61, 62, 77-85, 88, 090, _passim_.
Janamejaya, 171.
Janasthán, 225, 251, 254, 255, 264, 265, 271, 281, 282, 294, 295, 298, 308, 404, 439, 454, 463, 474, 493, 500.
Játarúpa, 373.
Jatáyu, 5.
Jatáyus, 245, 247, 280, 288, 290, 308, 385 ff., 500, 502.
Java, 231.
Jáváli, 20, 80, 174, 217, 218, 219, 222.
Jayá, 36.
Jayanta, 14, 175.
Jumna, 109, 501, 502.
Jupiter, 144.
Justice, 3, 35, 42, 149, 243, 346, 454.
Jyotishtom, 24.
Kabandha, 5, 9, 310-316, 446, 500.
Kadrú, 246.
Kadrumá, 246.
Kaikasí, 516.
Kaikeyí, 3, 4, 9, 27, 32, 88, 96-103, _passim_.
Kailása, 38, 85, 92, 96, 110, 111, 267, 286, 357, 364, 368, 369, 373, 378, 421, 431.
Kakustha, 35, 37, 82, 109, 110, 123, 137, 142, 147, 149, 151, 153, 192, 208, 211, 220, 311.
Kalá, 378.
Kálak, 246.
Kálaká, 245, 246.
Kálakámuka, 256 note.
Kálamahí, 372.
Kalinda, 178.
Kálindí, 81, 160, 220.
Kalinga, 179.
Kalingas, 549,
Kalmáshapáda, 82, 220.
Káma 37, 38, 42, 283, 286, 296.
Kámboja, 13, 66.
Kámbojas, 66.
Kámpili, 47
Kandu, 118, 380, 440.
Kandarpa, 37, 74, 75, 76, 250, 269.
Kanva, 440.
Kanyákubja, 47.
Kapil, 51, 52, 53.
Kapivati, 179.
Kardam, 245.
Karnaprávaranas, 548.
Kártikeya, 243.
Kárttavírya, 518.
Kási, 21, 102.
Kásíkosalas, 548.
Kasyap, 15, 16, 20, 30, 57-59, 80, 81, 86, 87, 91, 92, 118, 219, 215, passim.
Kátyáyan, 505.
Kátyáyana, 80, 174.
Kausalyá, 3, 23, 27, 30, 31, 79, 84, 88, 93, 94, 97, 98, 100, _passim_.
Kausámbí, 46.
Kausikas, 549.
Kausikí, 48, 372.
Káverí, 375.
Kaustubha, 58.
Kávya, 40.
Kekaya, 21, 84, 88, 90, 137, 139, 174, 175.
Kerala, 190.
Keralas, 549.
Kesarí, 371.
Kesini, 49, 50.
Khara, 9, 225, 250 ff., 281, 288, 290, 294, 295, 433, 446, 451, 461, 477, 493.
Kinnars, 270, 306, 308, 318, 321, 373, 425.
Kimpurushas, 28 note.
Kirátas, 66, 549.
Kírtirát, 82.
Kirtirátha, 82.
Kishkindhá, 5, 333, 334, 336, 338, 339, 351, 357, 362, 369, 385, 449, 464, 500.
Kosal, 11, 102, 273, 307, 359, 418.
Kosala, 151, 173.
Krathan, 448.
Kratu, 245.
Krauncha, 310, 378, 476.
Kraunchi, 246.
Krisásva, 36, 41, 43.
Krishna, 497.
Krishnagiri, 448.
Krishnveni, 374.
Krita, 57, 395.
Krodhavasá, 245, 246.
Kshatriyas, 246, 346.
Kukshi, 81, 219.
Kulingá, 176.
Kumbha, 484.
Kumbhakarna, 10, 250, 399, 411, 435 ff., 441, 470 ff.
Kúmuda, 364 note, 448.
Kunjar, 375, 392.
Kuru(s), North, 198, 203, 315.
Kurujángal, 176.
Kusa, 10, 46, 48, 63, 526.
Kusadhwaj, 80, 82, 88.
Kusámba, 46.
Kusanábha, 46, 47, 48, 63.
Kusásva, 60.
Kusik, 33, 35, 36, 38, 44, 56, 62, 63, 68, 70 ff., 83.
Kutíká, 179.
Kutikoshtiká, 179.
Kuvera, 23, 88, 109, 110, 111, 112, 198, 199, 204, 232, 267, 378, 422, 431, 432, 483.
Lakshman, 4, 8, 11, 32, 36, 38, 40, 41, 44, 45, 56, 61, 79, 80, 82-84, 88, 91, 94, 97, 98, _passim_.
Lakshmí, 88, 116, 146, 227, 400, 453, 462, 497.
Lamba, 397.
Lanká, 5, 10, 265, 267, 284, 286, 293, 295-297, 367, 387, 397, 411, 423 ff., 439, 456 ff.
Lankatankatá, 515.
Lava, 10, 526.
Lohitya, 179.
Lokapálas, 485.
Lomapád, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 30.
Mádhaví, 520.
Madhu, 26, 51, 57, 87, 95.
Madhúka, 245.
Madhushyand, 68, 74.
Madrakas, 550.
Magadh, 46, 102.
Mágadnas, 548.
Maghá, 83.
Mahábír, 82.
Mahábala, 433 note.
Mahábhárat, 520, 524, 551, 554.
Mahádeva, 61, 515.
Mahákapála, 256 note, 260.
Mahámáli, 256 note.
Mahándhrak, 82.
Mahápadma, 14, 52.
Mahápárásva, 433, 436, 455, 478, 480, 487.
Mahárath, 68.
Maháromá, 82.
Mahárun, 368.
Mahásaila, 368.
Mahendra, 28, 59, 86, 87, 88, 140, 167, 213, 243, 244, 307, 336, 344, 364, 368, 370, 375, 490, 531, 554.
Maheswar, 369, 498.
Mahí, 372.
Máhishmatí, 518.
Mahishikas, 549.
Mahodar, 433 note, 450, 455, 474, 478 ff.
Mahodaya, 46, 70, 71, 488.
Maináka, 10, 394, 500 note.
Mainda, 28, 364 note, 371, 428, 430, 439, 449, 451, 458, 482, 483.
Makaráksha, 485 note.
Malaja, 39.
Málavas, 548.
Malaya, 198, 324, 328, 375, 379, 430.
Málí, 515, 516.
Máliní, 175, 539.
Malyaván, 454, 455.
Mályavat, 515, 516.
Mánas, 38.
Mandakarni, 240.
Mandákiní, 200, 201, 203, 209, 234, 235, 304, 322, 416 note.
Mandalí, 556.
Mandar, 57, 163, 285, 362, 368, 372, 399, 402, 421, 485, 491, 493, 525.
Mandarí, 444.
Mándhátá, 81, 219, 347, 518.
Mándavi, 84.
Mándavya, 226 note.
Mandehas, 373.
Mandodarí, 402, 492, 500, 516.
Mandra, 14.
Manibhadra, 441.
Manthará, 40, 96, 97, 99, 187.
Manu, 11, 12, 13, 81, 103, 151, 179, 219, 245, 246, 347, 490, 505, 537, 555.
Marícha, 58.
Márícha, 5, 9, 35, 39, 40, 44, 266, 271-280, 298.
Maríchi, 81, 91, 219, 245.
Maríchipas, 270, 271.
Márkandeya, 80, 174.
Mars, 93, 144, 339, 404, 445, 467, 489.
Maru, 82, 220.
Maruts, 25, 54, 59, 403, 517, 547, 555.
Máshas, 270, 271.
Mátali, 109, 142, 489, 491, 493.
Matanga, 14, 246, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 336, 337, 380.
Mátangí, 246.
Mátarisva, 389.
Matsya, 102, 523, 537, 549.
Maya, 293, 382, 432, 488.
Máyá, 293, 521.
Máyáví, 333, 334, 379.
Meghamáli, 256 note.
Meghanáda, 10.
Mekhal, 374.
Mená, 49, 394 note.
Menaká, 74.
Mercury, 144, 339, 467.
Meru, 4, 49, 92, 109, 110, 142, 182, 232, 236, 254, 291, 315, 368, 370, 377, 380, 418, 493.
Merusavarni, 382.
Mina, 32.
Misrakesí, 199.
Mithi, 82.
Míthilá, 9 note, 21, 45, 60, 61, 78, 81, 83, 84, 85.
Mitraghna, 459.
Mlechchhas, 66, 537, 550.
Modesty, 26.
Moon, 30, 42, 58, 109 ff., 124, 218, 227, 243, 276, 367, 413, 414, 488.
Mriga, 14.
Mrigamandá, 246.
Mrigí, 246.
Mudgalya, 174.
Nábhág, 82, 220.
Nágadantá, 198.
Nágas, 12, 55, 66, 68, 145, 270, 273, 395, 409, 413, 420, 427, 518.
Nahush, 82, 95, 171, 190, 220, 307.
Nairrit, 430.
Nala, 10, 340, 364 note, 428, 444, 445, 448, 449, 468, 475, 483.
Nalá, 246.
Naliní, 55, 203, 204, 267, 436.
Namuchi, 39, 261, 264, 275, 336.
Nandá, 415.
Nandan, 26, 175, 200, 267, 279, 315, 316, 426.
Nandi, 249, 421.
Nandigráma, 4, 6, 9, 224, 502, 503.
Nandísvara, 471.
Nandivardhan, 82.
Nárad, 1, 2, 8, 9, 124, 199, 543.
Narak, 479.
Narántak, 479.
Náráyan, 25, 26, 95, 393, 474, 497, 516, 517, 522, 535, 559.
Narmadá, 374, 448, 518.
Nikumbha, 432, 433 note, 437, 459, 484.
Níla, 28, 340, 352, 360, 364 note, 371, 374, 428, 429, 430, 446, 448, 449, 456, 458, 459, 469, 472, 475, 482.
Nimi, 77, 82.
Nisakar, 389, 390.
Nishádas, 4, 152, 192, 196, 271, 501, 537.
Ocean, 10, 95, 144, 285, 286, 336, 346, 387.
Oshthakarnakas, 548.
Pahlavas, 66.
Páka, 252, 297, 498.
Pampá, 5, 9, 235, 293, 314-321, 327.
Panas, 371, 428, 448, 464.
Panasa, 455 note.
Panchajan, 376.
Panchála, 176, 539.
Panchápsaras, 240.
Panchavata, 9.
Panchavatí, 244, 245, 247.
Pándyas, 375, 549.
Parásara, 517.
Parasuráma, 119 note, 523, 531.
Paravíráksha, 256 note.
Páriyátra, 376, 448.
Parjanya, 112, 174, 261, 448.
Párvati, 249 note, 515, 542.
Paulastya, 472.
Paulomí, 29, 370.
Pávaní, 55.
Phálguní, 83.
Pináka, 67.
Pitris, 550.
Prabháva, 363.
Prachetas, 1, 245.
Praghas, 420, 459, 460.
Prágvat, 179.
Prahasta, 399, 418, 419, 421, 422, 432 ff., 441, 451, 452, 455, 456, 471, 481.
Praheti, 515.
Prahláda, 391.
Prajangha, 459, 460.
Prajápati, 133 note, 554, 560.
Pralamba, 175.
Pramátha, 256 note.
Pramathí, 260, 448.
Pramati, 455 note.
Prasenajit, 81, 219.
Prasravan, 304, 357, 380, 383, 415, 426.
Prasthalas, 550.
Prasussruka, 82, 220.
Pratindhak, 82.
Pravargya, 22.
Prayág, 158, 159, 196.
Prithu, 81, 219.
Prithusyáma, 256 note.
Proshthapadá, 32.
Pulah, 245.
Pulastya, 35, 245, 254, 268, 288, 408, 515.
Pulindas, 550.
Puloma, 370.
Punarvasu, 93.
Pundaríká, 199.
Pundras, 548, 549.
Punjikasthalá, 436, 552.
Puranda, 522.
Purandara, 384, 522.
Purúravas, 286, 544, 545.
Purusha, 256 note, 559.
Purushádak, 82, 220.
Purushottam, 498, 517.
Púshá, 124.
Pushpak, 10, 80, 286, 499, 519.
Pushya, 32, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 109, 126.
Rabhasa, 433 note.
Rághava, 5 note.
Raghu, 5, 9, 22, 32 ff., 50, 56, 61, _passim_.
Raghunandana, 522.
Ráhu, 93, 223, 261, 272, 303, 351, 480.
Rain, Lord of, 92, 222.
Rájagriha, 174, 175.
Ráma, _passim_.
Rámáyana, 8 note, 10, 11, 541, 542.
Rambhá, 75, 232, 448.
Ramaná, 199.
Rasmiketu, 433 note, 459.
Rávan, 5, 9, 10, 25, 26, 32, 35, _passim_.
Renuká, 63, 119.
Richíka, 48, 73, 86.
Right, 42, 68.
Riksharajas, 386, 442.
Rikshaván, 448.
Rishabh, 373, 375, 429, 446, 476, 483.
Rishtikas, 549.
Rishyamúka, 9, 314, 315, 316, 318 ff., 332, 335, 339, 340, 353, 380, 500.
Rishyasring, 15-24, 29, 30.
Rohiní, 4, 112, 223, 227, 246, 251, 282, 287, 367, 404, 413, 445.
Rohitas, 376, 558.
Rudhirásana, 256 note.
Rudra, 49, 57, 67, 77, 78, 162, 249, 257, 264, 283, 296, 378, 413, 483.
Rudras, 246, 558.
Rukminí, 517.
Rumá, 346, 349, 350, 363, 366, 367, 371, 385, 403.
Ruman, 371.
Sachí, 29, 202, 234, 238, 276, 286, 297, 370, 408, 415, 494, 519, 522.
Sádhyas, 490, 555, 558, 559.
Sagar, 11, 50 ff., 82, 119, 137, 171, 441.
Sahadeva, 60.
Sahya, 429, 430.
Saivya, 104, 107, 171, 533.
Sakas, 66, 550.
Sakra, 75, 234, 307, 313, 336, 344, 448, 464.
Sálmalí, 176, 539.
Sályakartan, 178.
Sáman, 186, 326, 359.
Sambar, 479.
Sambara, 99, 100.
Sampáti, 5, 9, 246, 364 note, 385, 387 ff., 412, 455 note, 459, 460, 464.
Samprakshálas, 235.
Sanatkumár, 15, 16.
Sandhyá, 515.
Sanháras, 36.
Sanhráda, 474.
Sanischar, 283.
Sankan, 82.
Sankar, 57, 335.
Sánkásyá, 80, 81, 82, 83.
Sankha, 555.
Sankhan, 220, 432.
Sanrochan, 448.
Sansray, 245.
Sántá, 16, 19, 29, 30, 31.
Sarabh, 364 note, 439, 476.
Sarabhanga, 9, 233, 234, 235, 236, 265, 502.
Saradandá, 176, 539.
Saramá, 452, 453.
Sáran, 446, 447, 455.
Sarandib, 375 note.
Sáranga, 556.
Sarasvatí, 178, 372, 516, 522.
Sárdúla, 441, 449, 450.
Sárdúlí, 246.
Sarjú, 11, 20, 22, 36, 37, 38, 50, _passim_.
Sárvabhauma, 429.
Sarvartírtha, 179.
Sasivindhus, 81, 219.
Satabali, 371, 377, 379, 380.
Satadrú, 178, 539.
Satahradá, 231.
Satánanda, 62, 63, 77, 79, 80, 81, 84.
Satrughna, 32, 83, 84, 88, 89, 97, _passim_.
Satrunjay, 504.
Satyaván, 129.
Satyavatí, 48.
Sávitrí, 129, 227.
Savarí, 315, 316, 317.
Saumanas, 373.
Sávarní, 377.
Seven Rishis, 23.
Sesha, 245.
Siddhárth, 14, 137, 138, 175.
Siddhas, 28 note, 540, 559.
Síghraga, 82, 220.
Silá, 178.
Silávahá, 178.
Sindhu, 13, 21, 55, 102, 372, 376, 443.
Sinhiká, 10, 396.
Sisir(a), 372, 555.
Sítá, 4 ff., 55, 78, 79, 83, 84, 88, 93, _passim_.
Siva, 4, 36, 42, 54, 55, 57, 67, 78, 82, 85, 86, 109, 110, 205, 523, 524, 543, 554.
Skanda, 554.
Soma, 52, 58, 198, 267, 378, 554.
Somadatta, 60.
Somadá, 47.
Somagiri, 376, 378.
Sona, 45, 48, 372.
Sringavera, 4, 192, 196, 223, 501, 502.
Srinjay, 60.
Srutakírti, 84.
Sthánu, 25, 37, 245.
Sthánumatí, 179.
Sthúláksha, 256 note, 260.
Sthúlasiras, 313.
Subáhu, 364 note.
Suchakshu, 55.
Suchandra, 60.
Suchi, 238.
Sudámá, 178.
Sudáman, 81, 176.
Sudarsan, 82, 83, 220, 373, 378, 448.
Sudarsandwíp, 374.
Sudhanvá, 82.
Sudhriti, 82.
Súdras, 6, 13, 246.
Sugríva, 5, 6, 9, 28, 29, 314, 316, 318, 324 ff., 337, 339, 344, 346 ff., 371, 375 ff., 412, 414, 422, 424, 430, 439 ff., 446, 450, 519, 545.
Suka, 442, 446, 447, 455 ff.
Sukesa, 515, 516.
Suketu, 39, 82.
Sukí, 246.
Sukra, 124, 210, 279, 384, 429.
Sumáli, 515, 516.
Sumágadhí, 46.
Sumantra, 15, 16, 19, 21, 80, 92, _passim_.
Sumati, 49, 50, 59, 60.
Sumitrá, 27, 30, 32, 88, 94, _passim_.
Sun, 93, 109, 110, 124, 243.
Sunábha, 425.
Sunahsepha, 72, 73, 74
Sunda, 35, 39.
Sunetra, 364 note.
Suparna, 53, 125, 231, 343, 349, 388.
Supársva, 388.
Supátala, 364 note.
Suptaghna, 433 note.
Surá, 58.
Surabhí, 183, 246.
Surapati, 522.
Suras, 58.
Surasá, 246, 395.
Suráshtra, 21, 102, 376.
Súrasenas, 550.
Súrpanakhá, 5, 9, 249 ff., 267 ff., 288, 502.
Súrya, 555.
Súryáksha, 364 note.
Súryasatru, 433 note.
Súryaván, 375.
Susandhi, 81, 219.
Sushen, 28, 351, 364 note, 376, 379, 380.
Sutanu, 199.
Sutíkshna, 9, 234, 236, 237, 240, 241.
Suváhu, 35, 44, 45, 146.
Suvarat, 220.
Suvela, 450, 456, 457.
Suvíra, 21, 102.
Suyajna, 20, 132.
Svayambhu, 394.
Svayamprabhá, 382.
Svetáranya, 264.
Swarga, 54, 101, 202, 493.
Swarnaromá, 82.
Sweta, 448.
Syáma, 160.
Syandiká, 151.
Syenagámí, 256 note, 260.
Syení, 246.
Tádaká, 38, 39, 40, 41.
Tádakeya, 266.
Taittiríya, 132.
Takshak, 432.
Takshaka, 267.
Tálajanghas, 81, 219.
Tamasá, 7, 147, 148, 149.
Támrá, 245, 246.
Támraparní, 375.
Tapan, 459, 555.
Tára, 364 note, 379 ff.
Tárá, 9, 336, 349 ff., 355, 359, 362, 363, 366, 367, 369, 371, 385, 403, 449, 546.
Tárak, 430.
Tárkshya, 214.
Ten-necked, 250.
Thirty-three Gods, 51.
Thousand-eyed, 41, 59, 60, 74, 75, 76, 86, 90, 112, 252, 297, 504.
Three-eyed God, 86.
Thunderer, 234.
Titan, 58, 67, 72, 79, 109, 114, 124.
Toran, 179.
Town-Destroyer, 59, 60.
Trident, 68.
Trident-wielding, 54, 57.
Trijat, 133.
Trijatá, 410, 463.
Trikúta, 456, 457, 500, 515.
Trinavindu, 515.
Trípathagá, 56.
Tripur, 306.
Tripura, 85, 86.
Trisanku, 68-72, 81, 144, 219, 429.
Trisirá, 9.
Trisirás, 256 note, 260, 261, 264, 267, 271, 478, 479, 480, 502.
Tumburu, 198, 199, 232.
Uchchaihsravas, 58, 522.
Udayagiri, 379 note.
Udávasu, 82.
Ujjiháná, 179.
Ukthya, 24.
Umá, 49, 54, 205, 249 note, 471, 542, 543.
Upasad, 22.
Upasunda, 35.
Upendra, 74, 559.
Urmilá, 47, 83, 84, 88, 228.
Urvasí, 286, 544, 545.
Usanas, 382.
Utkal, 374.
Uttániká, 179, 539.
Váhli, 13.
Váhlíka, 376.
Vahni, 555.
Vaidyut, 375.
Vaijayanta, 99, 179, 522.
Vaikhánasas, 270, 271, 374.
Vainateya, 388.
Vaisravan, 265, 285, 378, 414, 515.
Vaisyas, 246.
Vaitaraní, 293.
Vajra, 376.
Vajradanshtra, 432, 433 note, 466, 467.
Válmíki, 1, 7-11, 161, 519, 542.
Vámadeva, 14, 79, 80, 91, 174, 222, 505.
Vámana, 14, 523.
Vána, 81, 219.
Vanáyu, 13.
Vangas, 102.
Varadas, 550.
Varun, 1 note, 28, 42, 67, 88, 109, 124, 228, 243, 272, 293, 338, 377, 383, 448, 471, 518.
Varásya, 256 note.
Varútha, 179.
Vásav, 92.
Vásava, 236, 522.
Vasishtha, 14, 15, 19-22, 25, 32, _passim_.
Vásudeva, 51, 52.
Vásuki, 57, 267, 375, 432, 518, 522.
Vasus, 14, 46, 246, 283, 377, 403, 522, 554.
Vasvaukasárá, 203.
Vátápi, 241, 280.
Váyu, 59, 243, 369, 427, 428, 555.
Vedas, 1 note, 3, 12, 22, 70, 89, 109, 125, 147, 184, 229, 559.
Vedasrutí, 151.
Vedavatí, 470, 517.
Vegadarsí, 429, 446, 483.
Vená, 448, 537.
Vibhándak, 15, 16, 17, 18, 25.
Vibhíshan, 6, 10, 250, 273, 415, 422, 423, 433 ff., 449 ff., 472, 483, 487 ff., 516.
Vibudh, 82.
Vidarbha, 46, 49.
Vidarbhas, 549.
Videha, 79 ff., 129, 130, 142, 166, 195, 227.
Videhan, 9, 79, 95, 104, 119, 125, _passim_.
Videhas, 548.
Vidyádharí, 203 note.
Vidyujjihva, 450.
Vidyunmáli, 364 note.
Vidyutkesa, 515.
Vihangama, 256 note.
Vijay, 14, 36, 175, 505.
Vikatá, 409.
Vikrit, 245.
Vikukshi, 81, 219.
Vinata, 179, 379, 380, 388, 448.
Vinatá, 53, 125, 246.
Vindhya, 14, 51, 242, 364, 370, 374, 380.
Vindu, 55.
Vipásá, 176, 539.
Vírabáhu, 364 note.
Virádha, 5, 9, 229, 232, 404, 446, 502.
Viráj, 124.
Viramatsya, 178.
Virochan, 40, 43.
Virtue, 223, 272.
Virúpáksha, 52, 420, 433, 459, 460, 487.
Visákhás, 144, 430.
Visálá, 56, 57, 59, 60, 62.
Vishnu, 1 note, 2, 3, 25, 32, 40, _passim_.
Visravas, 35, 309, 408, 515, 516.
Visváchi, 198.
Visvajit, 24.
Visvakarmá, 28, 42, 198, 376, 387, 444, 445, 448, 499, 500, 515, 556.
Visvámitra, 9, 32 ff., 39, 41, 44, 45, _passim_.
Visvarúpa, 353.
Visvas, 377.
Visvávasu, 198.
Visvedevas, 162.
Vitardan, 474.
Vivasvat, 81, 171, 219, 245, 386, 532.
Vrana, 444.
Vrihadratha, 82.
Vrihaspati, 28, 31, 95, 124, 210, 307, 464, 517.
Vritra, 125, 264, 288, 387, 487, 491, 536.
Vulture-king, 9.
War-god, 124, 476.
Wind, 30, 218.
Wind-god, 10, 36, 42, 68, 325, 326, 379, 392 ff., 417 ff., 449, 470, 478, 481, 488, 502, 503.
Yavadwípa, 372.
Yajnakopa, 433 note, 459.
Yajush, 326.
Yajnasatru, 256 note.
Yaksha, 236 note, 306, 318, 363, 375, 394, 420, 422, 425, 431, 454, 458, 468.
Yáma, 68, 71, 112, 117, 124, 140, 166, 171, 241, 248, 262, 275, 287, 313, 343 ff., 432, 437, 449, 472, 475, 496, 518, 554.
Yamuná, 158, 159, 160, 178, 214, 223, 372.
Yámun, 372.
Yavanas, 66, 550.
Yayáti, 82, 95, 107, 119, 163, 186, 307, 344.
Yudhájit, 84, 88, 180, 190.
Yúpáksha, 420, 472.
Yuvanásva, 81, 219.
FOOTNOTES
1 The MSS. vary very considerably in these stanzas of invocation: many lines are generally prefixed in which not only the poet, but those who play the chief parts in the poem are panegyrized. It is self-apparent that they are not by the author of the Rámáyan himself.
2 "Válmíki was the son of Varuna, the regent of the waters, one of whose names is Prachetas. According to the _Adhyátmá Rámáyana_, the sage, although a Bráhman by birth, associated with foresters and robbers. Attacking on one occasion the seven Rishis, they expostulated with him successfully, and taught him the _mantra_ of Ráma reversed, or _Mará, Mará_, in the inaudible repetition of which he remained immovable for thousands of years, so that when the sages returned to the same spot they found him still there, converted into a _valmík_ or ant-hill, by the nests of the termites, whence his name of Válmíki."
WILSON. _Specimens of the Hindu Theatre, Vol. I. p. 313_.
"Válmíki is said to have lived a solitary life in the woods: he is called both a _muni_ and a _rishi_. The former word properly signifies an anchorite or hermit; the latter has reference chiefly to wisdom. The two words are frequently used promiscuously, and may both be rendered by the Latin _vates_ in its earliest meaning of _seer_: Válmíki was both poet and seer, as he is said to have sung the exploits of Ráma by the aid of divining insight rather than of knowledge naturally acquired." SCHLEGEL.
3 Literally, _Kokila_, the Koïl, or Indian Cuckoo. Schlegel translates "luscinium."
4 Comparison with the Ganges is implied, that river being called the purifier of the world.
5 "This name may have been given to the father of Válmíki allegorically. If we look at the derivation of the word (_pra_, before, and _chetas_, mind) it is as if the poet were called the son of Prometheus, the Forethinker." SCHLEGEL.
6 Called in Sanskrit also _Bála-Kánda_, and in Hindí _Bál-Kánd_, _i.e._ the Book describing Ráma's childhood, _bála_ meaning a boy up to his sixteenth year.
7 A divine saint, son of Brahmá. He is the eloquent messenger of the Gods, a musician of exquisite skill, and the inventor of the _víná_ or Indian lute. He bears a strong resemblance to Hermes or Mercury.
8 This mystic syllable, said to typify the supreme Deity, the Gods collectively, the Vedas, the three spheres of the world, the three holy fires, the three steps of Vishnu etc., prefaces the prayers and most venerated writings of the Hindus.
9 This colloquy is supposed to have taken place about sixteen years after Ráma's return from his wanderings and occupation of his ancestral throne.
10 Called also Srí and Lakshmí, the consort of Vishnu, the Queen of
Beauty as well as the Dea Fortuna. Her birth "from the full-flushed wave" is described in Canto XLV of this Book.
11 One of the most prominent objects of worship in the Rig-veda, Indra
was superseded in later times by the more popular deities Vishnu and Siva. He is the God of the firmament, and answers in many respects to the Jupiter Pluvius of the Romans. See _Additional Notes_.
12 The second God of the Trimúrti or Indian Trinity. Derived from the
root _vis_ to penetrate, the meaning of the name appears to be _he who penetrates or pervades all things_. An embodiment of the preserving power of nature, he is worshipped as a Saviour who has nine times been incarnate for the good of the world and will descend on earth once more. See _Additional Notes_ and Muir's Sanskrit Texts _passim_.
13 In Sanskrit _devarshi_. Rishi is the general appellation of sages,
and another word is frequently prefixed to distinguish the degrees. A _Brahmarshi_ is a theologian or Bráhmanical sage; a Rájarshi is a royal sage or sainted king; a _Devarshi_ is a divine or deified sage or saint.
_ 14 Trikálajna_. Literally _knower of the three times_. Both Schlegel
and Gorresio quote Homer's.
{~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMICRON WITH DASIA AND OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH PSILI AND OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}' {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}' {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH OXIA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}' {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}.
"That sacred seer, whose comprehensive view,
The past, the present, and the future knew."
The Bombay edition reads _trilokajna,_ _who knows the three worlds_ (earth, air and heaven.) "It is by _tapas_ (austere fervour) that rishis of subdued souls, subsisting on roots, fruits and air, obtain a vision of the three worlds with all things moving and stationary." MANU, XI. 236.
15 Son of Manu, the first king of Kosala and founder of the solar
dynasty or family of the Children of the Sun, the God of that luminary being the father of Manu.
16 The Indians paid great attention to the art of physiognomy and
believed that character and fortune could be foretold not from the face only but from marks upon the neck and hands. Three lines under the chin like those at the mouth of a conch (_Sankha_) were regarded as a peculiarly auspicious sign indicating, as did also the mark of Vishnu's discus on the hand, one born to be a _chakravartin_ or universal emperor. In the palmistry of Europe the line of fortune, as well as the line of life, is in the hand. Cardan says that marks on the nails and teeth also show what is to happen to us: "Sunt etiam in nobis vestigia quædam futurorum eventuum in unguibus atque etiam in dentibus." Though the palmy days of Indian chiromancy have passed away, the art is still to some extent studied and believed in.
17 Long arms were regarded as a sign of heroic strength.
18 "Veda means originally knowing or knowledge, and this name is given
by the Bráhmans not to one work, but to the whole body of their most ancient sacred literature. Veda is the same word which appears in the Greek {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}, I know, and in the English wise, wisdom, to wit. The name of Veda is commonly given to four collections of hymns, which are respectively known by the names of Rig-veda, Yajur-veda, Sáma-veda, and Atharva-veda."
"As the language of the Veda, the Sanskrit, is the most ancient type of the English of the present day, (Sanskrit and English are but varieties of one and the same language,) so its thoughts and feelings contain in reality the first roots and germs of that intellectual growth which by an unbroken chain connects our own generation with the ancestors of the Aryan race,--with those very people who at the rising and setting of the sun listened with trembling hearts to the songs of the Veda, that told them of bright powers above, and of a life to come after the sun of their own lives had set in the clouds of the evening. These men were the true ancestors of our race, and the Veda is the oldest book we have in which to study the first beginnings of our language, and of all that is embodied in language. We are by nature Aryan, Indo-European, not Semitic: our spiritual kith and kin are to be found in India, Persia, Greece, Italy, Germany: not in Mesopotamia, Egypt, or Palestine."
_Chips from a German Workshop_, Vol. I. pp. 8. 4.
19 As with the ancient Persians and Scythians, Indian princes were
carefully instructed in archery which stands for military science in general, of which, among Hindu heroes, it was the most important branch.
20 Chief of the three queens of Dasaratha and mother of Ráma.
21 From _hima_ snow, (Greek {~GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}-{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}, Latin hiems) and _álaya_ abode,
the Mansion of snow.
22 The moon (_Soma_, _Indu_, _Chandra_ _etc._) is masculine with the
Indians as with the Germans.
23 Kuvera, the Indian Plutus, or God of Wealth.
24 The events here briefly mentioned will be related fully in the
course of the poem. The first four cantos are introductory, and are evidently the work of a later hand than Valmiki's.
25 "Chandra, or the Moon, is fabled to have been married to the
twenty-seven daughters of the patriarch Daksha, or Asviní and the rest, who are in fact personifications of the Lunar Asterisms. His favourite amongst them was Rohiní to whom he so wholly devoted himself as to neglect the rest. They complained to their father, and Daksha repeatedly interposed, till, finding his remonstrances vain, he denounced a curse upon his son-in-law, in consequence of which he remained childless and became affected by consumption. The wives of Chandra having interceded in his behalf with their father, Daksha modified an imprecation which he could not recall, and pronounced that the decay should be periodical only, not permanent, and that it should alternate with periods of recovery. Hence the successive wane and increase of the Moon. _Padma_, _Purána_, _Swarga-Khanda,_ Sec. II. _Rohiní_ in Astronomy is the fourth lunar mansion, containing five stars, the principal of which is Aldebaran." WILSON, _Specimens of the Hindu Theatre. Vol. I. p._ 234.
The Bengal recension has a different reading:
"Shone with her husband like the light
Attendant on the Lord of Night."
26 The garb prescribed for ascetics by Manu.
27 "Mount Meru, situated like Kailása in the lofty regions to the north
of the Himálayas, is celebrated in the traditions and myths of India. Meru and Kailása are the two Indian Olympi. Perhaps they were held in such veneration because the Sanskrit-speaking Indians remembered the ancient home where they dwelt with the other primitive peoples of their family before they descended to occupy the vast plains which extend between the Indus and the Ganges." GORRESIO.
28 The third God of the Indian Triad, the God of destruction and
reproduction. See _Additional Notes_.
29 The epithet _dwija_, or _twice-born_, is usually appropriate to
Bráhmans, but is applicable to the three higher castes. Investiture with the sacred thread and initiation of the neophyte into certain religious mysteries are regarded as his regeneration or second birth.
30 His shoes to be a memorial of the absent heir and to maintain his
right. Kálidása (Raghuvansa, XII. 17.) says that they were to be _adhidevate_ or guardian deities of the kingdom.
31 Jatáyu, a semi-divine bird, the friend of Ráma, who fought in
defence of Sítá.
32 Raghu was one of the most celebrated ancestors of Ráma whose
commonest appellation is, therefore, Rághava or descendant of Raghu. Kálidása in the _Raghuransa_ makes him the son of Dilípa and great-grandfather of Ráma. See _Idylls from the Sanskrit_, "Aja" and "Dilípa."
33 Dundhubi.
34 Literally _ten yojanas_. The yojana is a measure of uncertain length
variously reckoned as equal to nine miles, five, and a little less.
35 Ceylon.
36 The Jonesia Asoka is a most beautiful tree bearing a profusion of
red blossoms.
_ 37 Brahmá_, the Creator, is usually regarded as the first God of the
Indian Trinity, although, as Kálidása says:
"Of Brahmá, Vishnu, Siva, each may be
First, second, third, amid the blessed Three."
Brahmá had guaranteed Rávan's life against all enemies except man.
38 Ocean personified.
39 The rocks lying between Ceylon and the mainland are still called
Ráma's Bridge by the Hindus.
40 "The Bráhmans, with a system rather cosmogonical than chronological,
divide the present mundane period into four ages or _yugas_ as they call them: the Krita, the Tretá, the Dwápara, and the Kali. The Krita, called also the Deva-yuga or that of the Gods, is the age of truth, the perfect age, the Tretá is the age of the three sacred fires, domestic and sacrificial; the Dwápara is the age of doubt; the Kali, the present age, is the age of evil." GORRESIO.
41 The ancient kings of India enjoyed lives of more than patriarchal
length as will appear in the course of the poem.
42 Súdras, men of the fourth and lowest pure caste, were not allowed to
read the poem, but might hear it recited.
43 The three _slokes_ or distichs which these twelve lines represent
are evidently a still later and very awkward addition to the introduction.
44 There are several rivers in India of this name, now corrupted into
_Tonse_. The river here spoken of is that which falls into the Ganges a little below Allahabad.
45 "In Book II, Canto LIV, we meet with a saint of this name presiding
over a convent of disciples in his hermitage at the confluence of the Ganges and the Jumna. Thence the later author of these introductory cantos has borrowed the name and person, inconsistently indeed, but with the intention of enhancing the dignity of the poet by ascribing to him so celebrated a disciple." SCHLEGEL.
46 The poet plays upon the similarity in sound of the two words:
_soka_, means grief, _sloka_, the heroic measure in which the poem is composed. It need scarcely be said that the derivation is fanciful.
47 Brahmá, the Creator, is usually regarded as the first person of the
divine triad of India. The four heads with which he is represented are supposed to have allusion to the four corners of the earth which he is sometimes considered to personify. As an object of adoration Brahmá has been entirely superseded by Siva and Vishnu. In the whole of India there is, I believe, but one temple dedicated to his worship. In this point the first of the Indian triad curiously resembles the last of the divine fraternity of Greece, Aïdes the brother of Zeus and Poseidon. "In all Greece, says Pausanias, there is no single temple of Aïdes, except at a single spot in Elis." See Gladstone's Juventus Mundi, p. 253.
48 The _argha_ or _arghya_ was a libation or offering to a deity, a
Bráhman, or other venerable personage. According to one authority it consisted of water, milk, the points of Kúsa-grass, curds, clarified butter, rice, barley, and white mustard, according to another, of saffron, bel, unbroken grain, flowers, curds, dúrbá-grass, kúsa-grass, and sesamum.
49 Sítá, daughter of Janak king of Míthilá.
50 "I congratulate myself," says Schlegel in the preface to his, alas,
unfinished edition of the Rámáyan, "that, by the favour of the Supreme Deity, I have been allowed to begin so great a work; I glory and make my boast that I too after so many ages have helped to confirm that ancient oracle declared to Válmíki by the Father of Gods and men:
Dum stabunt montes, campis dum flumina current,
Usque tuum toto carmen celebrabitur orbe."
51 "The sipping of water is a requisite introduction of all rites:
without it, says the Sámha Purána, all acts of religion are vain." COLEBROOKE.
52 The _darhha_ or _kusa_ (Pea cynosuroides), a kind of grass used in
sacrifice by the Hindus as _cerbena_ was by the Romans.
53 The direction in which the grass should be placed upon the ground as
a seat for the Gods, on occasion of offerings made to them.
54 Parasuráma or Ráma with the Axe. See Canto LXXIV.
55 Sítá. Videha was the country of which Míthilá was the capital.
56 The twin sons of Ráma and Sítá, born after Ráma had repudiated Sítá,
and brought up in the hermitage of Válmíki. As they were the first rhapsodists the combined name Kusílava signifies a reciter of poems, or an improvisatore, even to the present day.
57 Perhaps the bass, tenor, and treble, or quick, slow and middle
times. we know but little of the ancient music of the Hindus.
58 Eight flavours or sentiments are usually enumerated, love, mirth,
tenderness, anger, heroism, terror, disgust, and surprise; tranquility or content, or paternal tenderness, is sometimes considered the ninth. WILSON. See the _Sáhitya Darpana_ or _Mirror of Composition_ translated by Dr. Ballantyne and Bábú Pramadádása Mittra in the _Bibliotheca Indica._
59 Saccharum Munja is a plant from whose fibres is twisted the sacred
string which a Bráhman wears over one shoulder after he has been initiated by a rite which in some respects answers to confirmation.
60 A description of an Asvamedha or Horse Sacrifice is given in Canto
XIII. of this Book.
61 This exploit is related in Canto XL.
62 The Sarjú or Ghaghra, anciently called Sarayú, rises in the
Himalayas, and after flowing through the province of Oudh, falls into the Ganges.
63 The ruins of the ancient capital of Ráma and the Children of the Sun
may still be traced in the present Ajudhyá near Fyzabad. Ajudhyá is the Jerusalem or Mecca of the Hindus.
64 A legislator and saint, the son of Brahmá or a personification of
Brahmá himself, the creator of the world, and progenitor of mankind. Derived from the root _man_ to think, the word means originally _man_, the thinker, and is found in this sense in the Rig-veda.
Manu as a legislator is identified with the Cretan Minos, as progenitor of mankind with the German Mannus: "Celebrant carminibus antiquis, quod unum apud illos memoriæ et annalium genus est, Tuisconem deum terra editum, et filium Mannum, originem gentis conditoresque." TACITUS, _Germania_, Cap. II.
65 The Sál (Shorea Robusta) is a valuable timber tree of considerable
height.
66 The city of Indra is called Amarávatí or Home of the Immortals.
67 Schlegel thinks that this refers to the marble of different colours
with which the houses were adorned. It seems more natural to understand it as implying the regularity of the streets and houses.
68 The _Sataghní_ _i.e. centicide_, or slayer of a hundred, is
generally supposed to be a sort of fire-arms, or the ancient Indian rocket; but it is also described as a stone set round with iron spikes.
69 The Nágas (serpents) are demigods with a human face and serpent
body. They inhabit Pátála or the regions under the earth. Bhogavatí is the name of their capital city. Serpents are still worshipped in India. See Fergusson's _Tree and Serpent Worship_.
70 The fourth and lowest pure caste whose duty was to serve the three
first classes.
71 By forbidden marriages between persons of different castes.
72 Váhlí or Váhlíka is Bactriana; its name is preserved in the modern
Balkh.
73 The Sanskrit word Sindhu is in the singular the name of the river
Indus, in the plural of the people and territories on its banks. The name appears as _Hidku_ in the cuneiform inscription of Darius' son of Hystaspes, in which the nations tributary to that king are enumerated.
The Hebrew form is _Hodda_ (Esther, I. 1.). In Zend it appears as _Hendu_ in a somewhat wider sense. With the Persians later the signification of _Hind_ seems to have co-extended with their increasing acquaintance with the country. The weak Ionic dialect omitted the Persian _h_, and we find in Hecatæus and Herodotus {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} and {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH DASIA~} {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH OXIA~}. In this form the Romans received the names and transmitted them to us. The Arabian geographers in their ignorance that Hind and Sind are two forms of the same word have made of them two brothers and traced their decent from Noah. See Lassen's Indische Alterthumskunde Vol. I. pp. 2, 3.
74 The situation of Vanáyu is not exactly determined: it seems to have
lain to the north-west of India.
75 Kámboja was probably still further to the north-west. Lassen thinks
that the name is etymologically connected with _Cambyses_ which in the cuneiform inscription of Behistun is written Ka(m)bujia.
76 The elephants of Indra and other deities who preside over the four
points of the compass.
77 "There are four kinds of elephants. 1 _Bhaddar_. It is well
proportioned, has an erect head, a broad chest, large ears, a long tail, and is bold and can bear fatigue. 2 _Mand_. It is black, has yellow eyes, a uniformly sized body, and is wild and ungovernable. 3 _Mirg_. It has a whitish skin, with black spots. 4 _Mir_. It has a small head, and obeys readily. It gets frightened when it thunders." _Aín-i-Akbarí._. Translated by H. Blochmann, Aín 41, _The Imperial Elephant Stables_.
78 Ayodhyá means _not to be fought against_.
79 Attendants of Indra, eight Gods whose names signify fire, light and
its phenomena.
80 Kasyap was a grandson of the God Brahmá. He is supposed to have
given his name to Kashmír = Kasyapa-míra, Kasyap's Lake.
81 The people of Anga. "Anga is said in the lexicons to be Bengal; but
here certainly another region is intended situated at the confluence of the Sarjú with the Ganges, and not far distant from Dasaratha's dominions." GORRESIO. It comprised part of Behar and Bhagulpur.
82 The Koïl or _kokila_ (Cuculus Indicus) as the harbinger of spring
and love is a universal favourite with Indian poets. His voice when first heard in a glorious spring morning is not unpleasant, but becomes in the hot season intolerably wearisome to European ears.
83 "Sons and Paradise are intimately connected in Indian belief. A man
desires above every thing to have a son to perpetuate his race, and to assist with sacrifices and funeral rites to make him worthy to obtain a lofty seat in heaven or to preserve that which he has already obtained." GORRESIO.
84 One of the Pleiades and generally regarded as the model of wifely
excellence.
85 The Hindu year is divided into six seasons of two months each,
spring, summer, rains, autumn, winter, and dews.
86 It was essential that the horse should wander free for a year before
immolation, as a sign that his master's paramount sovereignty was acknowledged by all neighbouring princes.
87 Called also Vidcha, later Tirabhukti, corrupted into the modern
Tirhut, a province bounded on the west and east by the Gaudakí and Kausikí rivers, on the south by the Ganges, and on the north by the skirts of the Himálayas.
88 The celebrated city of Benares. See Dr. Hall's learned and
exhaustive Monograph in the _Sacred City of the Hindus_, by the Rev. M. A. Sherring.
89 Kekaya is supposed to have been in the Panjáb. The name of the king
was Asvapati (Lord of Horses), father of Dasaratha's wife Kaikeyí.
90 Surat.
91 Apparently in the west of India not far from the Indus.
92 "The Pravargya ceremony lasts for three days, and is always
performed twice a day, in the forenoon and afternoon. It precedes the animal and Soma sacrifices. For without having undergone it, no one is allowed to take part in the solemn Soma feast prepared for the gods." Haug's _Aitareya Bráhmanam_. Vol. II. p. 41. note _q.v._
_ 93 Upasads_. "The Gods said, Let us perform the burnt offerings called
Upasads (_i.e._ besieging). For by means of an _Upasad_, _i.e._ besieging, they conquer a large (fortified) town."--_Ibid._ p. 32.
94 The Soma plant, or Asclepias Acida. Its fermented juice was drunk in
sacrifice by the priests and offered to the Gods who enjoyed the intoxicating draught.
95 "Tum in cærimoniarum intervallis Brachmanæ facundi, sollertes,
crebros sermones de rerum causis instituebant, alter alterum vincendi cupidi. This public disputation in the assembly of Bráhmans on the nature of things, and the almost fraternal connexion between theology and philosophy deserves some notice; whereas the priests of some religions are generally but little inclined to show favour to philosophers, nay, sometimes persecute them with the most rancorous hatred, as we are taught both by history and experience.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} This sloka is found in the MSS. of different recensions of the Rámáyan, and we have, therefore, the most trustworthy testimony to the antiquity of philosophy among the Indians." SCHLEGEL.
96 The _Angas_ or appendices of the Vedas, pronunciation, prosody,
grammar, ritual, astronomy, and explanation of obscurities.
97 In Sanskrit _vilva_, the _Ægle Marmelos_. "He who desires food and
wishes to grow fat, ought to make his Yúpa (sacrificial post) of Bilva wood." Haug's _Aítareya Bráhmanam. Vol. II._ p. 73.
98 The _Mimosa Catechu_. "He who desires heaven ought to make his Yúpa
of Khádira wood."--_Ibid._
99 The _Butea Frondosa_. "He who desires beauty and sacred knowledge
ought to make his Yúpa of Palása wood."--_Ibid._
100 The _Cardia Latifolia_.
101 A kind of pine. The word means literally the tree of the Gods.
Compare the Hebrew {~HEBREW LETTER AYIN~}{~HEBREW LETTER TSADI~}{~HEBREW LETTER YOD~} {~HEBREW LETTER YOD~}{~HEBREW LETTER HE~}{~HEBREW LETTER VAV~}{~HEBREW LETTER HE~} "trees of the Lord."
102 The Hindus call the constellation of Ursa Major the Seven Rishis or
Saints.
103 A minute account of these ancient ceremonies would be out of place
here. "Ágnishtoma is the name of a sacrifice, or rather a series of offerings to fire for five days. It is the first and principal part of the Jyotishtoma, one of the great sacrifices in which especially the juice of the Soma plant is offered for the purpose of obtaining Swarga or heaven." GOLDSTÜCKER'S DICTIONARY. "The _Ágnishtoma_ is Agni. It is called so because they (the gods) praised him with this Stoma. They called it so to hide the proper meaning of the word: for the gods like to hide the proper meaning of words."
"On account of four classes of gods having praised Agni with four Stomas, the whole was called _Chatushtoma_ (containing four Stomas)."
"It (the Ágnishtoma) is called _Jyotishtoma_, for they praised Agni when he had risen up (to the sky) in the shape of a light (_jyotis_)."
"This (Ágnishtoma) is a sacrificial performance which has no beginning and no end." HAUG'S _Aitareya Bráhmanam_.
The Atirátra, literally _lasting through the night_, is a division of the service of the Jyotishtoma.
The Abhijit, _the everywhere victorious_, is the name of a sub-division of the great sacrifice of the Gavámanaya.
The Visvajit, or _the all-conquering_, is a similar sub-division.
Áyus is the name of a service forming a division of the Abhiplava sacrifice.
The _Aptoryám_, is the seventh or last part of the Jyotishtoma, for the performance of which it is not essentially necessary, but a voluntary sacrifice instituted for the attainment of a specific desire. The literal meaning of the word would be in conformity with the _Praudhamanoramá_, "a sacrifice which procures the attainment of the desired object." GOLDSTÜCKER'S DICTIONARY.
"The _Ukthya_ is a slight modification of the Ágnishtoma sacrifice. The noun to be supplied to it is _kratu_. It is a Soma sacrifice also, and one of the seven Sansthas or component parts of the Jyotishtoma. Its name indicates its nature. For _Ukthya_ means 'what refers to the Uktha,' which is an older name for Shástra, _i.e._ recitation of one of the Hotri priests at the time of the Soma libations. Thus this sacrifice is only a kind of supplement to the Ágnishtoma." HAUG. _Ai. B._
104 "Four classes of priests were required in India at the most solemn
sacrifices. 1. The officiating priests, manual labourers, and acolytes, who had chiefly to prepare the sacrificial ground, to dress the altar, slay the victims, and pour out the libations. 2. The choristers, who chant the sacred hymns. 3. The reciters or readers, who repeat certain hymns. 4. The overseers or bishops, who watch and superintend the proceedings of the other priests, and ought to be familiar with all the Vedas. The formulas and verses to be muttered by the first class are contained in the
Yajur-veda-sanhitá. The hymns to be sung by the second class are in the Sama-veda-sanhitá. The Atharva-veda is said to be intended for the Brahman or overseer, who is to watch the proceedings of the sacrifice, and to remedy any mistake that may occur. The hymns to be recited by the third class are contained in the Rigveda," _Chips from a German Workshop._
105 The Maruts are the winds, deified in the religion of the Veda like
other mighty powers and phenomena of nature.
106 A Titan or fiend whose destruction has given Vishnu one of his
well-known titles, Mádhava.
107 The garden of Indra.
108 One of the most ancient and popular of the numerous names of Vishnu.
The word has been derived in several ways, and may mean _he who moved on the (primordial) waters_, or _he who pervades or influences men or their thoughts_.
109 The Horse-Sacrifice, just described.
110 To walk round an object keeping the right side towards it is a mark
of great respect. The Sanskrit word for the observance is _pradakshiná_, from pra pro, and _daksha_ right, Greek {~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER XI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}, Latin dexter, Gaelic deas-il. A similar ceremony is observed by the Gaels.
"In the meantime she traced around him, with wavering steps, the propitiation, which some have thought has been derived from the Druidical mythology. It consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the _deasil_ walking three times round the person who is the object of the ceremony, taking care to move according to the course of the sun."
SCOTT. _The Two Drovers._
111 The _Amrit_, the nectar of the Indian Gods.
_ 112 Gandharvas_ (Southey's Glendoveers) are celestial musicians
inhabiting Indra's heaven and forming the orchestra at all the banquets of the principal deities.
_ 113 Yakshas_, demigods attendant especially on Kuvera, and employed by
him in the care of his garden and treasures.
_ 114 Kimpurushas_, demigods attached also to the service of Kuvera,
celestial musicians, represented like centaurs reversed with human figures and horses' heads.
_ 115 Siddhas_, demigods or spirits of undefined attributes, occupying
with the _Vidyádharas_ the middle air or region between the earth and the sun.
Schlegel translates: "Divi, Sapientes, Fidicines, Præpetes, illustres Genii, Præconesque procrearunt natos, masculos, silvicolas; angues porro, Hippocephali Beati, Aligeri, Serpentesque frequentes alacriter generavere prolem innumerabilem."
116 A mountain in the south of India.
117 The preceptor of the Gods and regent of the planet Jupiter.
118 The celestial architect, the Indian Hephæstus, Mulciber, or Vulcan.
119 The God of Fire.
120 Twin children of the Sun, the physicians of Swarga or Indra's
heaven.
121 The deity of the waters.
122 Parjanya, sometimes confounded with Indra.
123 The bird and vehicle of Vishnu. He is generally represented as a
being something between a man and a bird and considered as the sovereign of the feathered race. He may be compared with the Simurgh of the Persians, the 'Anká of the Arabs, the Griffin of chivalry, the Phoenix of Egypt, and the bird that sits upon the ash Yggdrasil of the Edda.
124 This Canto will appear ridiculous to the European reader. But it
should be remembered that the monkeys of an Indian forest, the "bough-deer" as the poets call them, are very different animals from the "turpissima bestia" that accompanies the itinerant organ-grinder or grins in the Zoological Gardens of London. Milton has made his hero, Satan, assume the forms of a cormorant, a toad, and a serpent, and I cannot see that this creation of semi-divine Vánars, or monkeys, is more ridiculous or undignified.
125 The consort of Indra, called also Sachí and Indrání.
126 The _Michelia champaca_. It bears a scented yellow blossom:
"The maid of India blest again to hold
In her full lap the Champac's leaves of gold."
_Lallah Rookh._
127 Vibhándak, the father of Rishyasring
128 A hemisloka is wanting in Schlegel's text, which he thus fills up in
his Latin translation.
129 Rishyasring, a Bráhman, had married Sántá who was of the Kshatriya
or Warrior caste and an expiatory ceremony was necessary on account of this violation of the law.
130 "The poet no doubt intended to indicate the vernal equinox as the
birthday of Ráma. For the month _Chaitra_ is the first of the two months assigned to the spring; it corresponds with the latter half of March and the former half of April in our division of the year. _Aditi_, the mother of the Gods, is lady of the seventh lunar mansion which is called _Punarvasu_. The five planets and their positions in the Zodiac are thus enumerated by both commentators: the Sun in Aries, Mars in Capricorn, Saturn in Libra, Jupiter in Cancer, Venus in Pisces.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} I leave to astronomers to examine whether the parts of the description agree with one another, and, if this be the case, thence to deduce the date. The Indians place the nativity of Ráma in the confines of the second age (tretá) and the third (dwápara): but it seems that this should be taken in an allegorical sense.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} We may consider that the poet had an eye to the time in which, immediately before his own age, the aspects of the heavenly bodies were such as he has described." SCHLEGEL.
131 The regent of the planet Jupiter.
132 Indra = Jupiter Tonans.
133 "_Pushya_ is the name of a month; but here it means the eighth
mansion. The ninth is called _Asleshá_, or the snake. It is evident from this that Bharat, though his birth is mentioned before that of the twins, was the youngest of the four brothers and Ráma's junior by eleven months." SCHLEGEL.
134 A fish, the Zodiacal sign _Pisces_.
135 One of the constellations, containing stars in the wing of Pegasus.
136 Ráma means the Delight (of the World); Bharat, the Supporter;
Lakshman, the Auspicious; Satrughna, the Slayer of Foes.
137 Schlegel, in the _Indische Bibliothek_, remarks that the proficiency
of the Indians in this art early attracted the attention of Alexander's successors, and natives of India were so long exclusively employed in this service that the name Indian was applied to any elephant-driver, to whatever country he might belong.
138 The story of this famous saint is given at sufficient length in
Cantos LI-LV.
This saint has given his name to the district and city to the east of Benares. The original name, preserved in a land-grant on copper now in the Museum of the Benares College, has been Moslemized into Ghazeepore (the City of the Soldier-martyr).
139 The son of Kusik is Visvámitra.
140 At the recollection of their former enmity, to be described
hereafter.
141 The Indian nectar or drink of the Gods.
142 Great joy, according to the Hindu belief, has this effect, not
causing each particular hair to stand on end, but gently raising all the down upon the body.
143 The Rákshasas, giants, or fiends who are represented as disturbing
the sacrifice, signify here, as often elsewhere, merely the savage tribes which placed themselves in hostile opposition to Bráhmanical institutions.
144 Consisting of horse, foot, chariots, and elephants.
145 "The Gandharvas, or heavenly bards, had originally a warlike
character but were afterwards reduced to the office of celestial musicians cheering the banquets of the Gods. Dr. Kuhn has shown their identity with the Centaurs in name, origin and attributes." GORRESIO.
146 These mysterious animated weapons are enumerated in Cantos XXIX and
XXX. Daksha was the son of Brahmá and one of the Prajápatis, Demiurgi, or secondary authors of creation.
147 Youths of the Kshatriya class used to leave unshorn the side locks
of their hair. These were called _Káka-paksha_, or raven's wings.
148 The Rákshas or giant Rávan, king of Lanká.
149 "The meaning of Asvins (from _asva_ a horse, Persian asp, Greek
{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}, Latin _equus_, Welsh ech) is Horsemen. They were twin deities of whom frequent mention is made in the Vedas and the Indian myths. The Asvins have much in common with the Dioscuri of Greece, and their mythical genealogy seems to indicate that their origin was astronomical. They were, perhaps, at first the morning star and evening star. They are said to be the children of the sun and the nymph Asviní, who is one of the lunar asterisms personified. In the popular mythology they are regarded as the physicians of the Gods." GORRESIO.
150 The word Kumára (a young prince, a Childe) is also a proper name of
Skanda or Kártikeya God of War, the son of Siva and Umá. The babe was matured in the fire.
151 "At the rising of the sun as well as at noon certain observances,
invocations, and prayers were prescribed which might under no circumstances be omitted. One of these observances was the recitation of the Sávitrí, a Vedic hymn to the Sun of wonderful beauty." GORRESIO.
_ 152 Tripathaga_, _Three-path-go,_ flowing in heaven, on earth, and
under the earth. See Canto XLV.
153 Tennyson's "Indian Cama," the God of Love, known also by many other
names.
_ 154 Umá_, or _Parvatí_, was daughter of Himálaya, Monarch of mountains,
and wife of Siva. See Kálidasa's _Kumára Sambhava_, or _Birth of the War-God_.
_ 155 Sthánu_. The Unmoving one, a name of Siva.
156 "The practice of austerities, voluntary tortures, and mortifications
was anciently universal in India, and was held by the Indians to be of immense efficacy. Hence they mortified themselves to expiate sins, to acquire merits, and to obtain superhuman gifts and powers; the Gods themselves sometimes exercised themselves in such austerities, either to raise themselves to greater power and grandeur, or to counteract the austerities of man which threatened to prevail over them and to deprive them of heaven.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Such austerities were called in India _tapas_ (burning ardour, fervent devotion) and he who practised them _tapasvin_." GORRESIO.
_ 157 The Bodiless one._
158 "A celebrated lake regarded in India as sacred. It lies in the lofty
region between the northern highlands of the Himálayas and mount Kailása, the region of the sacred lakes. The poem, following the popular Indian belief, makes the river Sarayú (now Sarjú) flow from the Mánasa lake; the sources of the river are a little to the south about a day's journey from the lake. See Lassen, _Indische Alterthumshunde_, page 34." GORRESIO. _Manas_ means mind; _mánasa_, mental, mind-born.
_ 159 Sarovar_ means best of lakes. This is another of the poet's
fanciful etymologies.
160 The confluence of two or more rivers is often a venerated and holy
place. The most famous is Prayág or Allahabad, where the Sarasvatí by an underground course is believed to join the Jumna and the Ganges.
161 The botanical names of the trees mentioned in the text are Grislea
Tormentosa, Shorea Robusta, Echites Antidysenterica, Bignonia Suaveolens, OEgle Marmelos, and Diospyrus Glutinosa. I have omitted the _Kutaja_ (Echites) and the _Tinduka_ (Diospyrus).
162 Here we meet with a fresh myth to account for the name of these
regions. _Malaja_ is probably a non-Aryan word signifying a hilly country: taken as a Sanskrit compound it means _sprung from defilement_. The word _Karúsha_ appears to have a somewhat similar meaning.
163 "This is one of those indefinable mythic personages who are found in
the ancient traditions of many nations, and in whom cosmogonical or astronomical notions are generally figured. Thus it is related of Agastya that the Vindhyan mountains prostrated themselves before him; and yet the same Agastya is believed to be regent of the star Canopus." GORRESIO.
He will appear as the friend and helper of Ráma farther on in the poem.
164 The famous pleasure-garden of Kuvera the God of Wealth.
165 "The whole of this Canto together with the following one, regards
the belief, formerly prevalent in India, that by virtue of certain spells, to be learnt and muttered, secret knowledge and superhuman powers might be acquired. To this the poet has already alluded in Canto xxiii. These incorporeal weapons are partly represented according to the fashion of those ascribed to the Gods and the different orders of demi-gods, partly are the mere creations of fancy; and it would not be easy to say what idea the poet had of them in his own mind, or what powers he meant to assign to each." SCHLEGEL.
166 "In Sanskrit _Sankára_, a word which has various significations but
the primary meaning of which is _the act of seizing_. A magical power seems to be implied of employing the weapons when and where required. The remarks I have made on the preceding Canto apply with still greater force to this. The MSS. greatly vary in the enumeration of these _Sankáras_, and it is not surprising that copyists have incorrectly written the names which they did not well understand. The commentators throw no light upon the subject." SCHLEGEL. I have taken the liberty of omitting four of these which Schlegel translates "Scleromphalum, Euomphalum, Centiventrem, and Chrysomphalum."
167 I omit, after this line, eight _slokes_ which, as Schlegel allows,
are quite out of place.
168 This is the fifth of the _avatárs_, descents or incarnations of
Vishnu.
169 This is a solar allegory. Vishnu is the sun, the three steps being
his rising, culmination, and setting.
170 Certain ceremonies preliminary to a sacrifice.
171 A river which rises in Budelcund and falls into the Ganges near
Patna. It is called also _Hiranyaráhu_, Golden-armed, and _Hiranyaráha_, Auriferous.
172 The modern Berar.
173 According to the Bengal recension the first (Kusámba) is called
Kusásva, and his city Kausásví. This name does not occur elsewhere. The reading of the northern recension is confirmed by Foê Kouê Ki; p. 385, where the city _Kiaoshangmi_ is mentioned. It lay 500 _lis_ to the south-west of _Prayága_, on the south bank of the Jumna. _Mahodaya_ is another name of Kanyakubja: _Dharmáranya_, the wood to which the God of Justice is said to have fled through fear of Soma the Moon-God was in Magadh. Girivraja was in the same neighbourhood. See Lasson's I, A. Vol. I. p. 604.
174 That is, the City of the Bent Virgins, the modern Kanauj or Canouge.
175 Literally, Given by _Brahma_ or devout contemplation.
176 Now called Kosí (Cosy) corrupted from Kausikí, daughter of Kus]a.
"This is one of those personifications of rivers so frequent in the Grecian mythology, but in the similar myths is seen the impress of the genius of each people, austere and profoundly religious in India, graceful and devoted to the worship of external beauty in Greece." GORRESIO.
177 One of the names of the Ganges considered as the daughter of Jahnu.
See Canto XLIV.
178 The Indian Crane.
179 Or, rather, geese.
180 A name of the God Siva.
181 Garuda.
182 Ikshváku, the name of a king of Ayodhyá who is regarded as the
founder of the Solar race, means also a _gourd_. Hence, perhaps, the myth.
183 "The region here spoken of is called in the Laws of Manu
_Madhyadesa_ or the middle region. 'The region situated between the Himálaya and the Vindhya Mountains {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} is called _Madhyadesa_, or the middle region; the space comprised between these two mountains from the eastern to the western sea is called by sages Áryávartta, _the seat of honourable men_.' (MANU, II, 21, 22.) The Sanskrit Indians called themselves Áryans, which means _honourable_, _noble_, to distinguish themselves from the surrounding nations of different origin." GORRESIO.
184 Said to be so called from the Jambu, or Rose Apple, abounding in it,
and signifying according to the Puránas the central division of the world, the known world.
185 Here used as a name of Vishnu.
186 Kings are called the husbands of their kingdoms or of the earth;
"She and his kingdom were his only brides." _Raghuvansa._
"Doubly divorced! Bad men, you violate
A double marriage, 'twixt my crown and me,
And then between me and my married wife."
King Richard II. Act V. Sc. I.
187 The thirty-three Gods are said in the _Aitareya Bráhmana_, Book I.
ch. II. 10. to be the eight Vasus, the eleven Rudras, the twelve Ádityas, Prajápati, either Brahmá or Daksha, and Vashatkára or deified oblation. This must have been the actual number at the beginning of the Vedic religion gradually increased by successive mythical and religious creations till the Indian Pantheon was crowded with abstractions of every kind. Through the reverence with which the words of the Veda were regarded, the immense host of multiplied divinities, in later times, still bore the name of the Thirty-three Gods.
188 "One of the elephants which, according to an ancient belief popular
in India, supported the earth with their enormous backs; when one of these elephants shook his wearied head the earth trembled with its woods and hills. An idea, or rather a mythical fancy, similar to this, but reduced to proportions less grand, is found in Virgil when he speaks of Enceladus buried under Ætna:"
"adi semiustum fulmine corpus
Urgeri mole hac, ingentemque insuper Ætnam
Impositam, ruptis flammam expirare caminis;
Et fessum quoties mutat latus, intre mere omnem
iam, et coelum subtexere fumo."
Æneid. Lib. III. GORRESIO.
189 "The Devas and Asuras (Gods and Titans) fought in the east, the
south, the west, and the north, and the Devas were defeated by the Asuras in all these directions. They then fought in the north-eastern direction; there the Devas did not sustain defeat. This direction is _aparájitá_, _i.e._ unconquerable. Thence one should do work in this direction, and have it done there; for such a one (alone) is able to clear off his debts." HAUG'S _Aitareya Bráhmanam_, Vol. II, p. 33.
The debts here spoken of are a man's religious obligations to the Gods, the Pitaras or Manes, and men.
190 Vishnu.
191 "It appears to me that this mythical story has reference to the
volcanic phenomena of nature. Kapil may very possibly be that hidden fiery force which suddenly unprisons itself and bursts forth in volcanic effects. Kapil is, moreover, one of the names of Agni the God of Fire." GORRESIO.
192 Garud was the son of Kasyap and Vinatá.
193 Garud.
194 A famous and venerated region near the Malabar coast.
195 That is four fires and the sun.
196 Heaven.
197 Wind-Gods.
198 Siva.
199 The lake Vindu does not exist. Of the seven rivers here mentioned
two only, the Ganges and the Sindhu or Indus, are known to geographers. Hládiní means the Gladdener, Pávaní the Purifier, Naliní the Lotus-Clad, and Suchakshu the Fair-eyed.
200 The First or Golden Age.
201 Diti and Aditi were wives of Kasyap, and mothers respectively of
Titans and Gods.
202 One of the seven seas surrounding as many worlds in concentric
rings.
203 Sankar and Rudra are names of Siva.
204 "Sárngin, literally _carrying a bow of horn_, is a constantly
recurring name of Vishnu. The Indians also, therefore, knew the art of making bows out of the hons of antelopes or wild goats, which Homer ascribes to the Trojans of the heroic age." SCHLEGEL.
205 Dhanvantari, the physician of the Gods.
206 The poet plays upon the word and fancifully derives it from _apsu_,
the locative case plural of _ap_, water, and _rasa_, taste.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} The word is probably derived from _ap_, water, and _sri_, to go, and seems to signify _inhabitants of the water_, nymphs of the stream; or, as Goldstücker thinks (Dict. s.v.) these divinities were originally personifications of the vapours which are attracted by the sun and form into mist or clouds.
207 "_Surá_, in the feminine comprehends all sorts of intoxicating
liquors, many kinds of which the Indians from the earliest times distilled and prepared from rice, sugar-cane, the palm tree, and various flowers and plants. Nothing is considered more disgraceful among orthodox Hindus than drunkenness, and the use of wine is forbidden not only to Bráhmans but the two other orders as well.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} So it clearly appears derogatory to the dignity of the Gods to have received a nymph so pernicious, who ought rather to have been made over to the Titans. However the etymological fancy has prevailed. The word _Sura_, a God, is derived from the indeclinable _Swar_ heaven." SCHLEGEL.
208 Literally, high-eared, the horse of Indra. Compare the production of
the horse from the sea by Neptune.
209 "And Kaustubha the best
Of gems that burns with living light
Upon Lord Vishnu's breast."
_Churning of the Ocean._
210 "That this story of the birth of Lakshmí is of considerable
antiquity is evident from one of her names _Kshírábdhi-tanayá_, daughter of the Milky Sea, which is found in _Amarasinha_ the most ancient of Indian lexicographers. The similarity to the Greek myth of Venus being born from the foam of the sea is remarkable."
"In this description of Lakshmí one thing only offends me, that she is said to have four arms. Each of Vishnu's arms, single, as far as the elbow, there branches into two; but Lakshmí in all the brass seals that I possess or remember to have seen has two arms only. Nor does this deformity of redundant limbs suit the pattern of perfect beauty." SCHLEGEL. I have omitted the offensive epithet.
211 Purandhar, a common title of Indra.
212 A few verses are here left untranslated on account of the subject
and language being offensive to modern taste.
213 "In this myth of Indra destroying the unborn fruit of Diti with his
thunderbolt, from which afterwards came the Maruts or Gods of Wind and Storm, geological phenomena are, it seems, represented under mythical images. In the great Mother of the Gods is, perhaps, figured the dry earth: Indra the God of thunder rends it open, and there issue from its rent bosom the Maruts or exhalations of the earth. But such ancient myths are difficult to interpret with absolute certainty." GORRESIO.
214 Wind.
215 Indra, with _mahá_, great, prefixed.
216 The Heavenly Twins.
217 Not banished from heaven as the inferior Gods and demigods sometimes
were.
218 Kumárila says: "In the same manner, if it is said that Indra was the
seducer of Ahalyá this does not imply that the God Indra committed such a crime, but Indra means the sun, and Ahalyá (from ahan and lí) the night; and as the night is seduced and ruined by the sun of the morning, therefore is Indra called the paramour of Ahalyá." MAX MULLER, _History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p. 530_.
219 "The preceding sixteen lines have occurred before in Canto XLVIII.
This Homeric custom of repeating a passage of several lines is strange to our poet. This is the only instance I remember. The repetition of single lines is common enough." SCHLEGEL.
220 Divine personages of minute size produced from the hair of Brahmá,
and probably the origin of
"That small infantry
Warred on by cranes."
221 Sweet, salt, pungent, bitter, acid, and astringent.
222 "Of old hoards and minerals in the earth, the king is entitled to
half by reason of his general protection, and because he is the lord paramount of the soil." MANU, Book VIII. 39.
223 Ghí or clarified butter, "holy oil," being one of the essentials of
sacrifice.
224 "A Bráhman had five principal duties to discharge every day: study
and teaching the Veda, oblations to the manes or spirits of the departed, sacrifice to the Gods, hospitable offerings to men, and _a gift of food to all creatures_. The last consisted of rice or other grain which the Bráhman was to offer every day outside his house in the open air. MANU, Book III. 70." GORRESIO.
225 These were certain sacred words of invocation such a _sváhá_,
_vashat_, etc., pronounced at the time of sacrifice.
226 "It is well known that the Persians were called Pahlavas by the
Indians. The _Sakas_ are nomad tribes inhabiting Central Asia, the Scythes of the Greeks, whom the Persians also, as Herodotus tells us, called Sakæ just as the Indians did. Lib. VII 64 {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH DASIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH VARIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~} {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH VARIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}. {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}. The name Yavans seems to be used rather indefinitely for nations situated beyond Persia to the west.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} After the time of Alexander the Great the Indians as well as the Persians called the Greeks also Yavans." SCHLEGEL.
Lassen thinks that the Pahlavas were the same people as the {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} of Herodotus, and that this non-Indian people dwelt on the north-west confines of India.
227 See page 13, note 6.
228 Barbarians, non-Sanskrit-speaking tribes.
229 A comprehensive term for foreign or outcast races of different faith
and language from the Hindus.
230 The Kirátas and Hárítas are savage aborigines of India who occupy
hills and jungles and are altogether different in race and character from the Hindus. Dr. Muir remarks in his Sanskrit Texts, Vol. I. p. 488 (second edition) that it does not appear that it is the object of this legend to represent this miraculous creation as the origin of these tribes, and that nothing more may have been intended than that the cow called into existence large armies, of the same stock with particular tribes previously existing.
231 The Great God, Siva.
232 Nandi, the snow-white bull, the attendant and favourite vehicle of
Siva.
233 "The names of many of these weapons which are mythical and partly
allegorical have occurred in Canto XXIX. The general signification of the story is clear enough. It is a contest for supremacy between the regal or military order and Bráhmanical or priestly authority, like one of those struggles which our own Europe saw in the middle ages when without employing warlike weapons the priesthood frequently gained the victory." SCHLEGEL.
For a full account of the early contests between the Bráhmans and the Kshattriyas, see Muir's Original Sanskrit Texts (Second edition) Vol. I. Ch. IV.
234 "Trisanku, king of Ayodhyá, was seventh in descent from Ikshváku,
and Dasaratha holds the thirty-fourth place in the same genealogy. See Canto LXX. We are thrown back, therefore, to very ancient times, and it occasions some surprise to find Vasishtha and Visvámitra, actors in these occurences, still alive in Rama's time."
235 "It does not appear how Trisanku, in asking the aid of Vasishtha's
sons after applying in vain to their father, could be charged with resorting to another _sákhá_ (School) in the ordinary sense of that word; as it is not conceivable that the sons should have been of another Sákhá from the father, whose cause they espouse with so much warmth. The commentator in the Bombay edition explains the word _Sákhantaram_ as Yájanádiná rakshántaram, 'one who by sacrificing for thee, etc., will be another protector.' Gorresio's Gauda text, which may often be used as a commentary on the older one, has the following paraphrase of the words in question, ch. 60, 3. Múlam utsrijya kasmát tvam sákhásv ichhasi lambitum. 'Why, forsaking the root, dost thou desire to hang upon the branches?' " MUIR, Sanskrit Texts, Vol. I., p. 401.
236 A Chandála was a man born of the illegal and impure union of a Súdra
with a woman of one of the three higher castes.
237 "The Chandála was regarded as the vilest and most abject of the men
sprung from wedlock forbidden by the law (Mánavadharmasástra, Lib. X. 12.); a kind of social malediction weighed upon his head and rejected him from human society." GORRESIO.
238 This appellation, occuring nowhere else in the poem except as the
name of a city, appears twice in this Canto as a name of Vasishtha.
239 "The seven ancient rishis or saints, as has been said before, were
the seven stars of Ursa Major. The seven other new saints which are here said to have been created by Visvámitra should be seven new southern stars, a sort of new Ursa. Von Schlegel thinks that this mythical fiction of new stars created by Visvámitra may signify that these southern stars, unknown to the Indians as long as they remained in the neighbourhood of the Ganges, became known to them at a later date when they colonized the southern regions of India." GORRESIO.
240 "This cannot refer to the events just related: for Visvámitra was
successful in the sacrifice performed for Trisanku. And yet no other impediment is mentioned. Still his restless mind would not allow him to remain longer in the same spot. So the character of Visvámitra is ingeniously and skilfully shadowed forth: as he had been formerly a most warlike king, loving battle and glory, bold, active, sometimes unjust, and more frequently magnanimous, such also he always shows himself in his character of anchorite and ascetic." SCHLEGEL.
241 Near the modern city of Ajmere. The place is sacred still, and the
name is preserved in the Hindí. Lassen, however, says that this Pushkala or Pushkara, called by the Grecian writers {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}, the earliest place of pilgrimage mentioned by name, is not to be confounded with the modern Pushkara in Ajmere.
242 "Ambarísha is the twenty-ninth in descent from Ikshváku, and is
therefore separated by an immense space of time from Trisanku in whose story Visvámitra had played so important a part. Yet Richíka, who is represented as having young sons while Ambarísha was yet reigning being himself the son of Bhrigu and to be numbered with the most ancient sages, is said to have married the younger sister of Visvámitra. But I need not again remark that there is a perpetual anachronism in Indian mythology." SCHLEGEL..
"In the mythical story related in this and the following Canto we may discover, I think, some indication of the epoch at which the immolation of lower animals was substituted for human sacrifice.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} So when Iphigenia was about to be sacrificed at Aulis, one legend tells us that a hind was substituted for the virgin." GORRESIO.
So the ram caught in the thicket took the place of Isaac, or, as the Musalmáns say, of Ishmael.
243 The Indian Cupid.
244 "The same as she whose praises Visvámitra has already sung in Canto
XXXV, and whom the poet brings yet alive upon the scene in Canto LXI. Her proper name was _Satyavatí_ (Truthful); the patronymic, Kausikí was preserved by the river into which she is said to have been changed, and is still recognized in the corrupted forms Kusa and Kusí. The river flows from the heights of the Himálaya towards the Ganges, bounding on the east the country of Videha (Behar). The name is no doubt half hidden in the _Cosoagus_ of Pliny and the _Kossounos_ of Arrian. But each author has fallen into the same error in his enumeration of these rivers (Condochatem, Erannoboam, Cosoagum, Sonum). The Erannoboas, (Hiranyaváha) and the Sone are not different streams, but well-known names of the same river. Moreover the order is disturbed, in which on the right and left they fall into the Ganges. To be consistent with geography it should be written: Erannoboam sive Sonum, Condochatem (Gandakí), Cosoagum." SCHLEGEL.
245 "Daksha was one of the ancient Progenitors or Prajápatis created by
Brahmá. The sacrifice which is here spoken of and in which Sankar or Siva (called also here Rudra and Bhava) smote the Gods because he had not been invited to share the sacred oblations with them, seems to refer to the origin of the worship of Siva, to its increase and to the struggle it maintained with other older forms of worship." GORRESIO.
246 Sítá means a furrow.
"Great Erectheus swayed,
That owed his nurture to the blue-eyed maid,
But from the teeming furrow took his birth,
The mighty offspring of the foodful earth."
Iliad, Book II.
247 "The whole story of Sítá, as will be seen in the course of the poem
has a great analogy with the ancient myth of Proserpine." GORRESIO.
248 A different lady from the Goddess of the Jumna who bears the same
name.
249 This is another fanciful derivation, _Sa_--with, and _gara_--poison.
_ 250 Purushádak_ means a cannibal. First called _Kalmáshapáda_ on
account of his spotted feet he is said to have been turned into a cannibal for killing the son of Vasishtha.
251 "In the setting forth of these royal genealogies the Bengal
recension varies but slightly from the Northern. The first six names of the genealogy of the Kings of Ayodhyá are partly theogonical and partly cosmogonical; the other names are no doubt in accordance with tradition and deserve the same amount of credence as the ancient traditional genealogies of other nations." GORRESIO.
252 The tenth of the lunar asterisms, composed of five stars.
253 There are two lunar asterisms of this name, one following the other
immediately, forming the eleventh and twelfth of the lunar mansions.
254 This is another Ráma, son of Jamadagni, called Parasuráma, or Ráma
with the axe, from the weapon which he carried. He was while he lived the terror of the Warrior caste, and his name recalls long and fierce struggles between the sacerdotal and military order in which the latter suffered severely at the hands of their implacable enemy.
255 "The author of the _Raghuvansa_ places the mountain Mahendra in the
territory of the king of the Kalingans, whose palace commanded a view of the ocean. It is well known that the country along the coast to the south of the mouths of the Ganges was the seat of this people. Hence it may be suspected that this Mahendra is what Pliny calls 'promontorium Calingon.' The modern name, _Cape Palmyras_, from the palmyras Borassus flabelliformis, which abound there agrees remarkably with the description of the poet who speaks of the groves of these trees. _Raghuvansa_, VI. 51." SCHLEGEL.
256 Siva.
257 Siva. God of the Azure Neck.
258 Satrughna means slayer of foes, and the word is repeated as an
intensive epithet.
259 Alluding to the images of Vishnu, which have four arms, the four
princes being portions of the substance of that God.
260 Chief of the insignia of imperial dignity.
261 Whisks, usually made of the long tails of the Yak.
262 Chitraratha, King of the Gandharvas.
263 The Chandrakánta or Moonstone, a sort of crystal supposed to be
composed of congealed moonbeams.
264 A customary mark of respect to a superior.
265 Ráhu, the ascending node, is in mythology a demon with the tail of a
dragon whose head was severed from his body by Vishnu, but being immortal, the head and tail retained their separate existence and being transferred to the stellar sphere became the authors of eclipses; the first especially by endeavouring to swallow the sun and moon.
266 In eclipse.
267 The seventh of the lunar asterisms.
268 Kausalyá and Sumitrá.
269 A king of the Lunar race, and father of Yayáti.
270 Literally _the chamber of wrath,_ a "_growlery_," a small, dark,
unfurnished room to which it seems, the wives and ladies of the king betook themselves when offended and sulky.
271 In these four lines I do not translate faithfully, and I do not
venture to follow Kaikeyí farther in her eulogy of the hump-back's charms.
272 These verses are evidently an interpolation. They contain nothing
that has not been already related: the words only are altered. As the whole poem could not be recited at once, the rhapsodists at the beginning of a fresh recitation would naturally remind their hearers of the events immediately preceding.
273 The _sloka_ or distich which I have been forced to expand into these
nine lines is evidently spurious, but is found in all the commented MSS. which Schlegel consulted.
274 Manmatha, Mind-disturber, a name of Káma or Love.
275 This story is told in the Mahábhárat. A free version of it may be
found in _Scenes from the Rámáyan, etc._
276 Only the highest merit obtains a home in heaven for ever. Minor
degrees of merit procure only leases of heavenly mansions terminable after periods proportioned to the fund which buys them. King Yayáti went to heaven and when his term expired was unceremoniously ejected, and thrown down to earth.
277 See _Additional Notes_, THE SUPPLIANT DOVE.
278 Indra, called also Purandara, Town-destroyer.
279 Indra's charioteer.
280 The elephant of Indra.
281 A star in the spike of Virgo: hence the name of the mouth Chaitra or
Chait.
282 The Rain-God.
283 In a former life.
284 One of the lunar asterisms, represented as the favourite wife of the
Moon. See p. 4, note.
285 The Sea.
286 The Moon.
287 The comparison may to a European reader seem a homely one. But
Spenser likens an infuriate woman to a cow "That is berobbed of her youngling dere." Shakspeare also makes King Henry VI compare himself to the calf's mother that "Runs lowing up and down, Looking the way her harmless young one went." "Cows," says De Quincey, "are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young, when deprived of them, and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these gentle creatures."
288 The commentators say that, in a former creation, Ocean grieved his
mother and suffered in consequence the pains of hell.
289 As described in Book I Canto XL.
290 Parasúráma.
291 The Sanskrit word _hasta_ signifies both _hand_, and the trunk of
"The beast that bears between his eyes a serpent for a head."
292 See P. 41.
293 The first progeny of Brahmá or Brahmá himself.
294 These are three names of the Sun.
295 See P. 1.
296 The saints who form the constellation of Ursa Major.
297 The regent of the planet Venus.
298 Kuvera.
_ 299 Bali_, or the presentation of food to all created beings, is one of
the five great sacraments of the Hindu religion: it consists in throwing a small parcel of the offering, _Ghee_, or rice, or the like, into the open air at the back of the house.
300 In mythology, a demon slain by Indra.
301 Called also Garud, the King of the birds, offspring of Vinatá. See
p. 53.
302 See P. 56.
303 See P. 43.
304 The story of Sávitrí, told in the Mahábhárat, has been admirably
translated by Rückert, and elegantly epitomized by Mrs. Manning in _India, Ancient and Mediæval_. There is a free rendering of the story in _Idylls from the Sanskrit_.
305 Fire for sacrificial purposes is produced by the attrition of two