[9] Professor Monier Williams refers us to Rámáyaṇa III, 75.
[10] So, in the 89th chapter of the Wiikina Saga, Heime goes off to join the robber chief Ingram. (Hagen’s Helden-Sagen, Vol. I. p. 242).
[11] The India office MS. No. 2166 reads mátsyanyáyabhayodayát.
[12] His name means “Wild man of the Stronghold” or “Demon of the Stronghold.”
[13] The passage is full of puns: vayas means “age” and “bird”; kṛishṇa “black” and also the god of that name; bhúbhṛit “king” and also “mountain.”
[14] Killed by Vishṇu in the form of a boar.
[15] Another play on words. It may mean “was the son of the Páṇḍava Bhíma.”
[16] I do not understand this allusion. Paṇḍit Ráma Chandra of Alwar points out that the reference is to one of the exploits of Arjuna Sahasrabáhu, often called Kártavíryya, which is related in the Uttara Káṇḍa of the Rámáyaṇa, Sarga 32.
[17] Anjana is a black pigment applied to the eyes.
[18] Vana might mean “water.”