[258] Lit., ‘without cause.’
[259] Lit., ‘going by machinery.’
[260] Trees of paradise.
[261] A pun on pīḍā, grief.
[262] A pun on pīḍā, a chaplet.
[263] Read īrshyāṃ, vyathāṃ, and roshaṃ, as the Calcutta edition.
[264] ‘All the rasas,’ the ten emotions of love, fear, etc., enumerated by writers on rhetoric.
[265] Because water was poured out to ratify a gift.
[266] Bhāshitā, literally, ‘addressed by’; or read, bhāvitā, ‘entering into the spirit of.’
[267] Read nirdākshiṇyayā.