[154] p. 104. l. 15. A line is omitted here, which seems to want a parallel to make up the sloka. Bopp has omitted it in his translation.
[155] p. 105. l. 21. —Sudra like. The lowest caste who are not privileged, and indeed have no disposition in the native barrenness of their minds to study the sacred Vedas.
[156] p. 105. l. 25. As the storks the rice of offering. We follow Bopp in refining these birds from birds of coarser prey.
NOTES TO
THE DELUGE.
[157] See the very valuable papers of this gentleman in the Bombay Transactions.
[158] The editor remarks, that the name Manuja, Man-born, as the appellative of the human race, is derived from Manu, as likewise Mánawas, masc. Man—Mánawi, fem. Woman: from thence the Gothic Mann, which we have preserved. Manu is thus the representative of Man.