[6] Corresponding to "Wonderland."

[7] There are innumerable renderings of the Ramayana in the Indian languages.

[8] A kind of crisp unsweetened pancake taken like bread along with the other courses.

[9] Food while being eaten, and utensils or anything else touched by the hand engaged in conveying food to the mouth, are considered ceremonially unclean.

[10] The writer is the youngest of seven brothers. The sixth brother is here meant.

[11] Obsolete word meaning bee.

[12] The lane, a blind one, leads, at right angles to the front verandah, from the public main road to the grounds round the house.

[13] God of Death.

[14] Goddess of Learning.

[15] The Jupiter Pluvius of Hindu Mythology.