[566] vi. 37-38, 46.
[567] Cfr. for this subject the first and second chapters of the first book.
[568] i. 949, 974.
[569] i. 1671, 1980, et seq.
[570] iv. 16.
[571] Râmây. vii. 104, 105.
[572] Cfr. concerning this subject in particular, the first chapter of the first book, the chapter on the Wolf and that on the Frog.
[573] iii. 8.
[574] Cfr. the discussion concerning the gandharvâs in the chapter on the Ass.
[575] Râmây. vi. 82.—This nymph becomes grâhî, because she had once struck a holy Brâhman with her chariot. The same reason is assigned for the malediction which falls upon King Nahushas, who became an enormous serpent; this serpent squeezed the hero Bhîmas in its mortal coils; his brother, Yudhishṭhiras, runs up, and answers in a highly satisfactory manner to the abstruse philosophical questions addressed to him by the serpent, which then releases Bhîmas, casts off its skin, and ascends in the form of Nahushas to heaven; Mbh. iii. 12, 356, et seq.