[33]. [The lyrical drama of Jayadeva, Gītagovinda, dates from the twelfth century A.D. (Macdonell, Hist. Sanskrit Literature, 344 f.).]
[34]. I have often been struck with a characteristic analogy in the sculptures of the most ancient Saxon cathedrals in England and on the Continent, to Kanhaiya and the Gopis. Both may be intended to represent divine harmony. Did the Asi and Jits of Scandinavia, the ancestors of the Saxons, bring them from Asia?
[35]. [The Janamashtami, Krishna’s birthday, is celebrated on the 8th dark half of Sāwan (July-August).]
[36]. Trans. Royal Asiatic Society, vol. i. p. 146.
[37]. [Rādha was daughter of Vrishabhānu.]
[38]. Madho in the dialect of Vraj.
[39]. We meet with various little philosophical phenomena used as similes in this rhapsody of Jayadeva. These aërolites, mentioned by a poet the contemporary of David and Solomon, are but recently known to the European philosopher. [But one was worshipped at Rome in B.C. 204.]
[40]. This is, in allusion to the colour of Krishna, a dark blue.
[41]. The Indian Pluto; she is addressing the Yamuna.
[42]. Thus the ancient statues do not present merely the sculptor’s fancy in the zone of bells with which they are ornamented.