72:1b 'This cannot refer to the events just related: for Vis'vmitra was successful in the sacrifice performed for Tris'anku. 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 Vis'vmitra 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.
72:2b Near the modern city of Ajmere. The place is sacred still, and the name is preserved in the Hind. Lassen, however, says that this Pushkala or Pushkara, called by the Grecian writers Πευκελἀίτις, the earliest place of pilgrimage mentioned by name, is not to be confounded with the modern Pushkara in Ajmere.
73:1 Ambarisha is the twenty-ninth in descent from Ikshvku, and is therefore separated by an immense space of time from Tris'anku in whose story Vis'vmitra had played so important a part. Yet Richka, who is represented as having young sons while Ambarsha 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 Vis'vmitra. 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....
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 Musalmns say, of Ishmael.