[10] The Recorder, who keeps account of all the sins that each soul must answer for, at the end of every birth.
[11] i.e. son of a nobleman, the term used by a queen in addressing her husband.
[12] i.e. a wife who makes a god of her husband: the highest of all possible praises. Sawitri is the Hindoo Alcestis.
[13] Sati, which means a good woman, is always understood by Europeans to refer to what is only the last manifestation of her quality, the burning herself on her dead lord's pyre. But the term does not necessarily contain any reference to that stern climax of her virtue.
[14] Another name for Yama, the god of death, which we may here take as equivalent to "Justice."
[15] i.e. the God of Love and his principal wife.
[16] As we might say, bachelor, but the Hindoo expression is stricter, meaning, one who has taken a vow of virginity.
[17] The two wives of Love.
[18] i.e. Ganesha.
[19] See Preface.