[4] Cp. Hamlet Act V, Sc. II, 1. 223; Julius Cæsar Act V, Sc. I, 1 71 and ff.
[5] See Vol. I, p. 441. Dante seems to have considered that dreams immediately before morning were true. See Inferno, XXVI, 7; and Purgatorio, IX, 13–18. Fraticelli quotes from Horace—
Quirinus
Post mediam noctem visus cum somnia vera.
[6] I read párśvasthitam̱ for pársvaśtham̱. The former is found in the three India Office MSS. and in the Sanskrit College MS.
[7] The word, which means “wrinkles,” also means “strong.”
[8] The three India Office MSS. read kritvaiva for kritveva.
[9] Asitagiri.
[10] This passage is full of lurking puns. It may mean “full of world-upholding kings of the snakes, and of many Kapilas.”