[1] Cp. the falcon in Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale and the parallels quoted by Skeat in his Introduction to Chaucer’s Prioresses Tale &c., p. xlvii.
[2] An elaborate pun on dvija and śákhá.
[3] For the conception of the sun as an eye see Kuhn, Die Herabkunft des Feuers und des Göttertranks, pp. 52, 53. The idea is common in English poetry. See for instance Milton, P. L. V. 171, Spenser’s Faery Queene, I, 3, 4. For instances in classical poetry, see Ovid, Met. IV, 228, Ar. Nub. 286, Soph. Tr. 101.
[4] I read tvadvákyam with the Sanskrit College MS. and ahitáśanki tachcha in śl. 141 with the same MS.
[5] Cp. Aristophanes, Aves, pp. 169, 170.
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