[64] The Pankha, or large common fan, is a leaf of the Corypha umbraculifera, with the petiole cut to the length of about five feet, pared round the edges and painted to look pretty. It is waved by the servant standing behind a chair.
[65] The fabulous mass of precious stones forming the sacred mountain of Hindu mythology.
[66] ‘I love my love with an “S,” because he is stupid and not psychological.’
[67] Hindu mythology has also its Cerberus, Trisisa, the ‘three-headed’ hound that attends dreadful Yama (Pluto).
[68] Parceque c’est la saison des amours.
[69] The police magistrate, the Catual of Camoens.
[70] The seat of a Hindu ascetic.
[71] The Hindu scriptures.
[72] The Goddess of Prosperity.
[73] In the original the lover is not blamed; this would be the Hindu view of the matter; we might be tempted to think of the old injunction not to seethe a kid in the mother’s milk.