[The Heavenly Dame.]] Arundhatí, wife of one of the Seven Saints.
The Boar.] An Avatár, or incarnation of Vishṇu. In this form he preserved the world at the deluge.
[That thirsty bird.]] The Chátaka, supposed to drink nothing but rain-water.
[Proud Alaká.]] The capital of Kuvera, the God of Wealth.
"The maid of India blest again to hold
In her broad lap the Champac's leaves of gold."
Lalla Rookh.
[Angiras.]] One of the Seven Saints; the father of Vrihaspati, the teacher of the gods.
[Vast grew his body.]] Alluding to the Vámana, or Dwarf Avatár of Vishṇu, wrought to restrain the pride of the giant Bali, who had expelled the Gods from heaven. In that form he presented himself before the giant, and asked him for three paces of land to build a hut. Bali ridiculed and granted the request. The dwarf immediately grew to a prodigious size, so that he measured the earth with one pace, and the heavens with another.
[Sumeru.]] Another name of the sacred Mount Meru; or rather the same word, with su, good, prefixed.