Within this world to stay.’
But to appeal to the moral sense of a goldsmith!
[36] Maha (great) raja (king): common address even to those who are not royal.
[37] The name means, ‘Quietistic Disposition.’
[38] August. In the solar-lunar year of the Hindu the months are divided into fortnights—light and dark.
[39] A flower, whose name frequently occurs in Sanskrit poetry.
[40] The stars being men’s souls raised to the sky for a time proportioned to their virtuous deeds on earth.
[41] A measure of length, each two miles.
[42] The warm region below.
[43] Hindus admire only glossy black hair; the ‘bonny brown hair’ loved by our ballads is assigned by them to low-caste men, witches, and fiends.