[54] Properly Karnatak; karna in Sanskrit means an ear.
[55] Danta in Sanskrit is a tooth.
[56] Padma means a foot.
[57] A common Hindu phrase equivalent to our ‘I manage to get on.’
[58] Meaning marriage, maternity, and so forth.
[59] Yama is Pluto; ‘mother of Yama’ is generally applied to an old scold.
[60] Snake-land; the infernal region.
[61] A form of abuse given to Durga, who was the mother of Ganesha (Janus); the latter had an elephant’s head.
[62] Unexpected pleasure, according to the Hindus, gives a bristly elevation to the down of the body.
[63] The Hindus banish ‘flasks,’ et hoc genus omne, from these scenes, and perhaps they are right.