[11]. [Sailapati, ‘the mountain lord,’ the Himālaya.]
[12]. This is not the literal interpretation, but the purpose for which it is applied. Chaori is the term always appropriated to the place of nuptials: singar means ‘ornament.’
[13]. [There is a tradition that a Hūna Rāja was present at the Swayamvara, or choosing of the bridegroom by the bride, Durlabha Devi, sister of the Rāja of Nādol in Mārwār, early in the eleventh century A.D. But the rank of the family does not warrant the belief that he and other distant Rājas were present (BG, i. Part i. 162 f.).]
[14]. [Nārada, one of the Prajāpati and seven great Rishis, who invented the vīna or lute, and paid a visit to Pātāla, the lower regions.]
[15]. [See a photograph of a fine panel from a temple at Deogarh, in the Lalitpur subdivision of the Jhānsi District, United Provinces, representing Vishnu reclining on the serpent Ananta, the symbol of eternity, with the other gods watching from above (Smith, HFA, 163).]
[16]. [An account of the Indian embassy to Augustus is given by Strabo (xv. 73, with the notes of M‘Crindle, Ancient India in Classical Literature, 77 ff.; O. de Beauvoir Priaulx, Indian Travels of Apollonius of Tyana (1873), 65 ff.). It was suggested by d’Anville that the king named Porus who sent the embassy was a Rāna of Ujjain who claimed descent from the Porus who was defeated by Alexander the Great. But the only foundation for this guess is that the embassy included a man from Barygaza, the modern Broach, who committed suicide by means of fire. There is no truth in the story that Seleucus sent Greek auxiliaries to the Pawār monarch of Ujjain, and the statements in the text lack authority.]
[17]. This is deposited in the museum of the Royal Asiatic Society.