[26] An instrument on which the keynote is strummed to accompany singing.
[27] A large proportion of words in the literary Bengali are derived unchanged from the Sanskrit.
[28] Servants call the master and mistress father, and mother, and the children brothers and sisters.
[29] Name of Vishnu in his aspect of slayer of the proud demon, Madhu.
[30] Nirada is a Sanscrit word meaning cloud, being a compound of nira = water and da = giver. In Bengali it is pronounced nirode.
[31] Betel-leaf and spices.
[32] Father of the well-known artists Gaganendra and Abanindra. Ed.
[33] In Bengali this word has come to mean an informal uninvited gathering.
[34] Systems of notation were not then in use. One of the most popular of the present-day systems was subsequently devised by the writer's brother here mentioned. Tr.
[35] The new bride of the house, wife of the writer's fourth brother, above-mentioned. Tr.