[30] The King of Birds. (The final a is mute.)
[31] i.e. long-sighted.
[32] Balibúk, an eater of daily offerings, is a common epithet of the crow.
[33] Meaning either black-wings, the dark half of the lunar month, or time-server.
[34] The combined form of Maheshwara and his "other half."
[35] A play on words, salt and beauty being the same (lawanya).
[36] Kalá means arts as well as digits.
[37] Every reader of Scott will recall the "kinless loons."
[38] i.e. initiation.
[39] The Greek [Greek: adyton], or sanctuary.