[251] Goçīrsha, a kind of fragrant sandal.
[252] V. Vishṇu Purāṇa, Bk. i., ch. iii. (For the description of Brahmā’s night.)
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.