ἀργαλέας βιότοιο μεταλλάσσοντα κελεύθους.
I have adopted the readings of Ritter and Preller, in their Historia Philosophiæ, in preference to those of M. Lévêque. It is clear that Empedocles supposed himself to be a Vidyádhara fallen from heaven in consequence of a curse. As I observed in an article in the Calcutta Review of 1875, “The Bhagavad Gítá and Christianity,” his personality is decidedly Indian.
[9] Cp. Odyssey IX. 27, 28.
[10] Comprising the modern provinces of Allahabad, Agra, Delhi and Oude.
[11] For anṛityata I should like to read anartyata.
[12] i. e., one who has obtained a prize.
[13] Badarínátha is a place sacred to Vishṇu in the Himálayas. The Badarínátha peaks, in British Gurwhal, form a group of six summits, from 22,000 to 23,400 feet above the sea. The town of Badarínátha is 55 miles north-east of Śrínagar, on the right bank of the Vishṇuganga, a feeder of the Alakananda. The temple is situated in the highest part of the town, and below it a tank, supplied by a sulphureous thermal spring, is frequented by thousands of pilgrims. The temple is 10,294 feet above the sea. (Akbar, an Eastern Romance, by Dr. Van Limburg-Brouwer, with an introduction by Clements Markham, p. 1, note.)
[14] Prajá means subjects and also offspring.
[15] The word artha means wealth, and also meaning.
[16] The story of Anangaprabhá may be the origin of the seventh Novel of the IInd day in the Decameron of Boccacio.