[2] I. q., Bheels.
[3] I read árúḍhaḥ.
[4] A MS. in the Sanskrit College reads sambhavaḥ for the sampadaḥ of Dr. Brockhaus’s text.
[5] Lustratio exercitus; waving lights formed part of the ceremony.
[6] It also means “drawing cords.”
[7] He is sometimes represented as bearing the entire world on one of his heads.
[8] One of these poison-damsels is represented as having been employed against Chandragupta in the Mudrá Rákshasa. Compare the XIth tale in the Gesta Romanorum, where an Indian queen sends one to Alexander the Great. Aristotle frustrates the stratagem.
[9] Jayastambha. Wilson remarks that the erection of these columns is often alluded to by Hindu writers, and explains the character of the solitary columns which are sometimes met with, as the Láṭ at Delhi, the pillars at Allahábád, Buddal, &c.
[10] Kalinga is usually described as extending from Orissa to Drávida or below Madras, the coast of the Northern Circars. It appears, however, to be sometimes the Delta of the Ganges. It was known to the ancients as Regio Calingarum, and is familiar to the natives of the Eastern Archipelago by the name of Kling. Wilson.
[11] The clouds are niḥsára void of substance, as being no longer heavy with rain. The thunder ceases in the autumn.