[251] Goçīrsha, a kind of fragrant sandal.

[252] V. Vishṇu Purāṇa, Bk. i., ch. iii. (For the description of Brahmā’s night.)

[253]

Tataḥ Saindhavako rājā kshudras, tāta, Jayadrathaḥ,

Varadānena Rudrasya sarvān naḥ samavārayat.

(‘Then the vile Sindh kinglet, Jayadratha, through the boon conferred by Rudra, O my son, kept us all back.’)—Mahābhārata, vii., 2574.

[254] Harivaṃça, 4906.

[255] The cakora, or Greek partridge, was said to have its eyes turned red in the presence of poison.

[256] Madirā, intoxicating, bewitching; so called because her eyes were madirāḥ.

[257] Daksha cursed the moon with consumption at the appeal of his forty-nine daughters, the moon’s wives, who complained of his special favour to the fiftieth sister.