[FN#18] The nectar of immortality.
[FN#19] Called "The Jap."
[FN#20] The compound form of Sanskrit words.
[FN#21] "Kamalapatraksha"
[FN#22] These are all divine or deified orders of the Hindoo Pantheon.
[FN#23] "Hail to Thee, God of Gods! Be favourable!"
[FN#24] The wind.
[FN#25] "Not peering about,"anapeksha.
[FN#26] The Calcutta edition of the Mahabharata has these three
opening
lines.
[FN#27] This is the nearest possible version of
Kshetrakshetrajnayojnanan
yat tajnan matan mama.
[FN#28] I omit two lines of the Sanskrit here, evidently interpolated by
some Vedantist.
[FN#29] Wombs.
[FN#30] I do not consider the Sanskrit verses here-which are somewhat
freely rendered--"an attack on the authority of the Vedas," with Mr
Davies,
but a beautiful lyrical episode, a new "Parable of the fig-tree."
[FN#31] I omit a verse here, evidently interpolated.
[FN#32] "Of the Asuras,"lit.
[FN#33] I omit the ten concluding shlokas, with Mr Davis.
[FN#34] Rakshasas and Yakshas are unembodied but capricious beings
of
great power, gifts, and beauty, same times also of benignity.
[FN#35] These are spirits of evil wandering ghosts.
[FN#36] Yatayaman, food which has remained after the watches of the
night. In India this would probably "go bad."