[221] (a) Brilliant; (b) Durgā.
[222] Summary of p. 277.
[223] The Commentary says: ‘A house is whitened to welcome anyone. The face (or mouth) is the dwelling of Sarasvatī.’
[224] Mandāra, one of the trees of Paradise.
[225] The month June–July.
[226] Staff.
[227] (a) A tilaka, or mark of ashes; (b) abundance of tilaka trees white with blossoms.
[228] Read Kauçalasya.
[229] Cf. ‘Dulce rudimentum meditantis lilia quondam naturæ, cum sese opera ad majora pararet.’—Rapin, on the convolvulus. V. Hallam, ‘Hist. of Lit.,’ Pt. iv., ch. v.
[230] Vishṇu Purāṇa, Wilson, 1865, vol. ii., p. 297.