[48]. [Kumāra probably means ‘easily dying.’]
[49]. It will be recollected that the moon with the Rajputs as with the Scandinavians is a male divinity. The Tatars, who also consider him a male divinity, pay him especial adoration in this autumnal month.
[50]. [Apsaras means ‘going in the waters, or in the waters of the clouds.’]
[51]. [The owl is a bird of ill omen, and does not seem to be associated with Lakshmi except in Bengal.]
[52]. The Hindu god of riches.
[53]. Yamala is the great god of the Finlanders (Clarke).
[54]. From go, ‘a cow’ [dhūli, ‘the dust raised by them as they return to the stall’].F
[55]. See anecdote in Chap. 21, which elucidates this practice of princes becoming herdsmen.
[56]. Matsya Purana. [Vishnu is generally said to wake on the Deothān, 11th light half of Kārttik.]
[57]. [Makara, a kind of shark or sea-monster, marks the 10th sign of the Zodiac, Capricorn.]