[101] Piçitāçna, a demon, or, according to the commentary here, a tiger.
[102] Lit., ‘creating a doubt of.’
[103] Cf. Emerson’s Essay on Experience: ‘Sleep lingers all our life-time about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.’
[104] Read, Çramā.
[105] Lit., ‘To have been an extract from.’
[106] Sacred to Indra, and burnt by Agni with the help of Arjuna and Kṛishṇa.
[107] Three horizontal lines.
[108] Truth in thought, word, and deed.
[109] Read, Nishpatatā.
[110] Nīlapānḍu, mottled blue and white. The Hindu penance is to be between five fires: four on earth and the sun above. V. Manu, vi. 23.