[56]. The queen of heaven.
[57]. [Kunti escaped the fire and protected the children of Mādri, the other wife of Pāndu, who was burnt with him.]
[58]. Hari Krishna is the mediator and preserver of the Hindu Triad; his name alone is invoked in funeral rites (see p. [621]). The following extract from Dr. Wilkins’ translation of the Gīta will best disclose his attributes:—Krishna speaks: “I am the journey of the good; the comforter; the creator; the witness; the resting-place; the asylum; and the friend. I am generation and dissolution; the place where all things are deposited, and the inexhaustible soul of all nature. I am death and immortality; I am never-failing time; the preserver, whose face is turned on all sides. I am all grasping death; and I am the resurrection of those who are about to die.”
[59]. A name of Durga, the Hindu Juno.
[60]. The sacred lake in Tibet. [See C. A. Sherring, Western Tibet and the British Borderlands, 259 ff.]
[61]. Dhan is ‘riches,’ but is here used in the sense of glory; so that riches and glory are synonymous in term with the Hindu, as in practice in the west; the one may always command the other, at least that species of it for which nine-tenths of mankind contend, and are satisfied with obtaining.
[62]. Celestial queens.
[63]. Discovered by the author amongst the Rana’s archives.
[64]. [Dr. Tessitori writes that the correct version is:
“Mahārāja Ajmāl ri