[14] Pulinda, name of a savage tribe.
[15] Mr. Growse remarks: “In Hindi the word Nágasthala would assume the form Nágal; and there is a village of that name to this day in the Mahában Pargana of the Mathurá District.”
[16] A common way of carrying money in India at the present day.
[17] Compare the last Scene of the Toy Cart in the 1st volume of Wilson’s Hindu Theatre.
[18] The esculent white lotus (Sanskrit kumuda) expands its petals at night, and closes them in the daytime.
[19] In Sanskrit poetry horripilation is often said to be produced by joy. I have here inserted the words “from joy” in order to make the meaning clear.
[20] Literally drunk in.
[21] Alluding to his grey hairs. In all eastern stories the appearance of the first grey hair is a momentous epoch. The point of the whole passage consists in the fact that jará, old age, is feminine in form. Cp. the perturbation of King Samson in Hagen’s Helden-Sagen, Vol. I, p. 26, and Spence Hardy’s Manual of Buddhism (1860) pp. 129 and 130.
[22] There is a pun between the name of the king Udayana and prosperity (udaya).