[[19]] i.e. Maheshwara himself, who burned Love with fire from his eye.
[[20]] Max Müller, to whom students of the Rig-Weda owe so much, was nevertheless essentially mistaken in saying that the word weda means knowledge. It does not mean knowledge, in our sense of the word, scientific, Baconian, Aristotelian; an idea quite alien to that of the old hotris. By weda they meant magical knowledge, spells; which being sung or muttered had power to compel the deities: thus the Brahman who possessed the "knowledge" (in the phrase of the Brahmanas, yah ewam weda) was the master of the world.
[[21]] i.e. the dark half of the lunar month.
[[22]] There is a pun in her name, which as applied to the moon, means a store of digits, but also signifies an ocean of wiles.
[[23]] It is singular that Rákshasas in Hindoo story, like Ogres in the West, are always represented as simpletons and ninnies.
[[24]] i.e. Indra.
A FETTER OF THE SOUL
Up my longing eyes I tossed
Heaven to seek me in the skies:
Then I found them, and was lost
Gazing down, in other eyes.
But was it Heaven they found, or was it Hell?
Lord of the Moony Tire, I cannot tell.
RUDRA
A FETTER OF THE SOUL