[32]. Another point of resemblance to the Roman Saturnalia.
[33]. A hall so called in honour of Ganesa, or Janus, whose effigies adorn the entrance. [Janus probably = Dianus: Ganesa, ‘lord of the troops of inferior deities’ (gana).]
[36]. [See Hastings, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, viii. 868 f.]
[37]. It fell on the 18th March 1819.
[38]. [For festivals in honour of Gauri see IA, xxxv. (1906) 61.]
[39]. Personification of spring.
[40]. Here we have Gauri as the type of the earth.
[41]. [The Gardens of Adonis, for which see Sir J. Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, 3rd ed. i. 236 ff.]