[1] Some kindly critics of these stories have objected to the W, here or elsewhere. The answer to this is, that European scholars have taught everybody to pronounce everything wrong, by e.g. introducing into Sanskrit a letter that it does not contain. There is no V in Sanskrit, nor can any Hindoo, without special training, pronounce it: he says, for instance, walwe for valve.
[2] This "detached reflection" of Russia's national poet is endorsed by Dostoyeffsky, the greatest master of jealousy that the world has ever seen.
[3] The title has a secondary meaning (with reference to its place in the series), she that is loaded with the nectar of Maheshwara, i.e. the moon that he wears.
[4] No mere learning will remove them. Pundits, as a rule, end where they began, "lost in the gloom of uninspired research."
[5] The bowstring of Love's bow is made of a line of bees. Love was reduced to ashes by fire from Shiwa's extra eye, for audaciously attempting to subject that great ascetic to his own power.
[6] The real divinity of a Hindoo temple is not the images outside on its walls, but the symbol (whatever it be) inside.
[7] A common feature throughout India. Everywhere they went, the devotees of the Koràn used to smash and maim the Hindoo idols.
[8] What we should call, in such a case, mesmerism: the power of concentrated will. There is something in it, after all.
[9] (Pronounce daya as die, with accent on preceding o.) It means the rising of red dawn.