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372:1 I reduce the unwieldy numbers of the original to more modest figures.
372:2 Saray now Sarj is the river on which Ayodhy was built.
372:3 Kaus'iki is a river which flows through Behar, commonly called Kosi.
372:4 Bhagirath's daughter is Ganga or the Ganges. The legend is told at length in Book I. Canto XLIV "The Descent of Gang".
372:5 A mountain not identified.
372:6 The Jumna. The river is personified as the twin sister of Yama, and hence regarded as the daughter of the Sun.
372:7 The Sarasvat (corruptly called Sursooty, is supposed to join the Ganges and Jumna at Prayg or Allahabad. It rises in the mountains bounding the north-east part of the province of Delhi, and running in a south-westerly direction becomes lost in the sands of the great desert.
372:8 The Sindhu is the Indus, the Sanskrit "s" becoming "h" in Persian and being in this instance dropped by the Greeks.
372:1b The Sone which rises in the district of Nagpore and falls into the Ganges above Patna.
372:2b Mahi* is a river rising in Malwa and falling into the gulf of Cambay after a westerly course of 280 miles.
372:3b There is nothing to show what parts of the country the poet intended to denote as silk-producing and silver-producing.
372:4b Yavadwipa means the island of Yava, wherever that may be.
372:5b S'is'ir is said to be a mountain ridge projecting from the base of Meru on the south. WILSON'S "Vishnu Purna", ed. Hall, Vol. II. p. 117.
372:6b This appears to be some mythical stream and not the well-known Sone. The name means red-coloured.
373:1 A fabulous thorny rod of the cotton tree used for torturing the wicked in hell. The tree gives its name, Slmali, to one of the seven Dwpas, or great divisions of the known continent: and also to a hell where the wicked are tormented with the pickles of the tree.
373:2 The king of the feathered creation.
373:3 Visvakarm, the Muleiher of the Indian heaven.
373:4 \"The terrific fiends named Mandehas attempt to devour the sun: for Brahm denounced this curse upon them, that without the power to perish they should die every day (and revive by night) and therefore a fierce contest occurs (daily) between them and the sun."
Wilson'S Vishnu Purna. Vol.II. p. 250.
373:5 Said in the Vishnu Purna to be a ridge projecting from the base of Meru to the north.
373:6 Kinnars are centaurs reversed, beings with equine head and human bodies.
373:7 Yakshas are demi-gods attendant on "Ruyera"* the God of wealth.
373:1b Aurva was one of the descendants of Bhrigu From his wrath proceeded a flame that threatened to destroy the world, had not Aurva cast it into the ocean where it remained concealed, and having the face of a horse. The legend is told in the "Mahbharat". I. 6*3*02.
373:2b The word Jtarupa means gold.
373:3b The celebrated mythological serpent king Sesha, called also Ananta or the infinite, represented as bearing the earth on one of his thousand heads.
373:4b Jambudwpa is in the centre of the seven great "dwpas" or continents into which the world is divided, and in the centre of Jambudwpa is the golden p. 374 mountain Meru 84,000 yojans high, and crowned by the great city of Brahm, Sse WILSON'S "Vishnu Purna", Vol II, p. 110.
374:1 Vaikhnases are a race of hermit saints said to have sprung from the nails of Prajpati.
374:2 \"The wife of Eratu, Samnnti, brought forth the sixty thousand Vlakhilyas, pigmy sages, no bigger than a joint of the thumb, chaste, pious, resplendent as the rays of the Sun" WlLSOK'S Vishnu Purna.
374:3 The continent in which Sudarsan or Meru stands, "i. e." Jambudwip.
374:4 The names of some historical peoples which occur in this Canto and in the Cantos describing the south and north will he found in the Additional Notes.
They are bare lists, not susceptible of a metrical version.