[329] Easter full moon.
[330] As we have seen, Arjuna and an army accompanied the white horse which was sacrificed in the Mahábhárata.
[331] The spirits of ancestors.
[332] The Vedic deities.
[333] Pron. rah´va-na.
[334] He is called a Rakshasa king in the Ramayana. Ravana appears to be the Brahmanical conception of Vritra, the ruler of the Danavas or Asuras. Lanká is Ceylon.
[335] Father and mother.
[336] The fighting Rakshasas of the Mahábhárata are all males. Here the female—the mother of demons—is prominent, as in Beowulf and typical Scottish stories.
[337] A Gaelic axiom says, “Every weapon has its demon”.
[338] “The remains of the capital founded by Janaka, and thence termed Janakpur, are still to be seen, according to Buchanan, on the northern frontier at the Janeckpoor of the maps.”—Note to Professor H. H. Wilson's translation of the Uttara Rama Charita.