[9] See note on page [305].

[10] Cp. Herodotus III. 119; Antigone, vv. 909–912. See also the Pentamerone of Basile, Vol. II, p. 131, and the Ucchanga Játaka, No. 67 in Dr. Fausböll’s edition.

[11] A mere pun.

[12] I read with a MS. in the Sanskrit College—bhayade há múrta iva sáhase.

[13] “Wish” is literally “chariot of the mind,” so here there is a pun.

[14] Both Śrí and the Amṛita came out of the sea when it was churned. Sudaśárha kúlena seems to be corrupt.

Book VIII.

Chapter XLIV.

Victory to the elephant-headed god,[1] who, reddening the sky with the vermilion dye shaken off by the wind of his flapping ears, seems to create sunset, even when it is not due.