358:1 Mlyavat: "The name of this mountain appears to me to be erroneous, and I think that instead o£ Mlyavat should be read Malayavat, Malaya is a group of mountains situated exactly in that southern part of India where Rma now was. while Mlyavat is placed to the north east." Gorresio.
358:2 Mantles of the skin of the black antelope were the prescribed dress of ascetics and religious students.
358:3 The sacred cord worn as the badge of religious initiation by men of the three twice-born castes.
359:1 The hum with which students con their tasks.
359:2 I omit here a long general description of the rainy season which ("is"?) not found in the Bengal recension and appears to have been interpolated by a far inferior and much later hand than Valmiki's. It is composed in a metre different from that of the rest of the Canto, and contains figures of poetical rhetoric and commonplaces which are the delight of more recent poets.
359:3 Praushthapada or Bhadra, the modern *Bhaden*, corresponds to half of August and half of September.
359:4 The Sman or Sma-veda, the third of the four Vedas, is really merely a reproduction of parts of the Rig-veda, transposed and scattered about piece-meal, only 78 verses in the whole being, it is said, untraceable to the present recension of the Rig-veda.
359:5 shdha is the month corresponding to parts of June and July.
359:6 Bharat, who was regent during Rma's absence.
359:7 Or with Goriesio, following the gloss of another commentary: "Has completed every holy rite and accumulated stores of merit."