A Mine of Faults

by F. W. Bain

[[10]] Dusk and Dawn.

[[11]] The special duty of a king, according to the old Hindoo sages, is to hunger and thirst after earth, like Ovid's Eresichthon.

[[12]] The monsoon which travels N.E.

[[13]] One of the heroes in the Mahabhárata.

[[14]] The preceptor of the gods; as we should say, a Solon.

[[15]] i.e., Maheshwara.

[[16]] i.e., Spring. Káma and Madhu—Love and Spring—are sworn friends in Hindoo mythology: an obvious poetical allegory, like the ver and Venus of the old Romans.

[[17]] i.e., women.

[[18]] An astrological term, which in modern Marathi, well known to the god, means a marriage.