142 ([return])
[ A low caste Hindu, who catches and exhibits snakes and performs other such mean offices.]
143 ([return])
[ Meaning, in spite of themselves.]
144 ([return])
[ When the moon is in a certain lunar mansion, at the conclusion of the wet season.]
145 ([return])
[ In Hindustan, it is the prevailing wind of the hot weather.]
146 ([return])
[ Vishnu, as a dwarf, sank down into and secured in the lower regions the Raja Bali, who by his piety and prayerfulness was subverting the reign of the lesser gods; as Ramachandra he built a bridge between Lanka (Ceylon) and the main land; and as Krishna he defended, by holding up a hill as an umbrella for them, his friends the shepherds and shepherdesses from the thunders of Indra, whose worship they had neglected.]