51:1 Said to be so called from the Jambu, or Rose Apple, abounding in it, and signifying according to the Purna, the central division of the world, the known world.
51:1b Here used as a name of Vishnu.
51:2b Kings are called the husbands of their kingdoms or of the earth; 'She and his kingdom were his only brides.' "Raghuvans'a".
'Doubly divorced! Bad men, you violate
A double marriage, 'twixt my crown and me,
And then between me and my married wife.'
King Richard II. Act V. Sc. I.
51:3b The thirty-three Gods are said in the "Aitareya. Brhmana".Book 1. ch. II. 10. to be the eight Vasus, the eleven Rudras, the twelve dityas, Prajpati, either Brahm or Daksha, and Vashatkra or deitied oblation. This must have been the actual number at the beginning of the Vedic religion gradually increased by successive mythical and religious creations till the Indian Pantheon was crowded with abstractions of every kind. Through the reverence with which the words of the Veda were regarded, the immense host of multiplied divinities, in later times, still bore the name of the Thirty-three Gods.
52:1 'One of the elephants which, according to an ancient belief popular in India, supported the earth with their enormous backs; when one of these elephants shook his wearied head the earth trembled with its woods and hills. An idea, or rather a mythical fancy, similar to this, but reduced to proportions less grand, is found in Virgil when he speaks of Enceladus buried under tna: