11:2b The Sarj or Ghaghra, anciently called Saray, rises in the Himalayas, and after flowing through the province of Oudb, falls into the Gauges.
12:1 The ruins of the ancient capital of Rama and the Children of the Sun may still be traced in the present Ajudhy near Fyzabad. Ajudhy is the Jerusalem or Mecca of the Hindus.
12:2 A legislator and saint, the son of Brahm or a personification of Brahm 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 memoriae et annalium genus est, Tuisconem deum terra editum, et fllium Mannum, originem gentis conditoresque.' Tacitus, \"Germania", Cap. Ii.
12:3 The Sl (Shorea Robusta) is a valuable timber tree of considerable height.
12:4 The city of Indra is called Amarvati or Home of the Immortals.
12:5 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.