[65]. These are words which are expressed through great grief.
[66]. Kartika is taken to be the most lovely in appearance among the gods—the symbol of male beauty. He is the son of Siva and Doorgah.
[67]. Here, the reference is to the last of the three days in which the goddess Doorgah is worshipped; and the last day is taken to be one of great pain, because on that day she is to take her departure from her parents to go to her husband Siva.
[68]. Thickly prepared signifies many coverings of the bed placed one above another.
[69]. It is one of the names of Doorgah. The term signifies “full of rice,” or the Goddess of Plenty.
[70]. The face of her husband.
[71]. It sometimes happens, that during sleep the child either cries or laughs; that is called, the Deala of the child.
[72]. An ornament made of shell for the wrists of women.
[73]. That is, let her become a widow within three days, who has made me so.
[74]. The Sala is the native name of the tree Shorea robusta.