370:1b The numbers are unmanageable in English verse. The poet speaks of hundreds of "arbudas"; and an "arbuda" is a hundred millions.
370:2b Anuhlda or Anuhrda is one of the four sons of the mighty Hiranyakasipu, an Asur or a Daitya son of Kasyapa and Diti and killed by Vishnu in his incarnation of the Man-Lion "Narasinha". According to the Bhgavata Purna the Daitya or Asur Hiranyakasipu and Hiranyksha his brother, both killed by Vishnu, were born again as Rvan and Kumbhakarna his brother.'
370:3b Putoma, a demon, was the father-in-law of Indra who destroyed him in order to avert an imprecation. Paulomit is a patronymic denoting Sachi the daughter of Puloma.
371:1 \"Observe the variety of colours which the poem attributes to all these inhabitants of the different mountainous regions, some white, others yellow, &c. Such dif- ferent colours were perhaps peculiar and distinctive characteristics of those various races." Gorressio.
371:2 Sushen.
371:3 Tara.
371:4 Kesari was the husband of Hanumnn's mother, and is here called his father.
371:5 \"I here unite under one heading two animals of p. 372 but which from some gross resemblances, probably helped by an equivoque in the language, are closely affiliated in the Hindoo myth.....a reddish colour of the skin, want of symmetry and ungainliness of form, strength in hugging with the fore paws or arms, the faculty of climbing, shortness of tail(?), sensuality, capacity of instruction in dancing and in music, are all characteristics which more or less distinguish and meet in bears as well as in monkeys In the "Rmyanam", the wise Jmnavant, the Odysseus of the expedition of Lank, is called now king of the bears (rikshaparthivah), now great monkey ("Mahkapih"). DeGubernatis: "Zoological Mythology", Vol. II. p. 97.