[114] This form of suicide is one of those recognised in India. So in Europe we read of fanatics who, with a suicidal ingenuity, have succeeded in crucifying themselves.
[115] The river of Jaganath in Orissa; it shares the honours of sanctity with some twenty-nine others, and in the lower regions it represents the classical Styx.
[116] Cupid. His wife Rati is the spring personified. The Hindu poets always unite love and spring, and perhaps physiologically they are correct.
[117] An incarnation of the third person of the Hindu Triad, or Triumvirate, Shiva the God of Destruction, the Indian Bacchus. The image has five faces, and each face has three eyes. In Bengal it is found in many villages, and the women warn their children not to touch it on pain of being killed.
[118] A village Brahman on stated occasions receives fees from all the villagers.
[119] The land of Greece.
[120] Savans, professors. So in the old saying, ‘Hanta, Pandit Sansara.’—Alas! the world is learned! This a little antedates the well-known schoolmaster.
[121] Children are commonly sent to school at the age of five. Girls are not taught to read, under the common idea that they will become widows if they do.
[122] Meaning the place of reading the four Shastras.
[123] A certain goddess who plays tricks with mankind. If a son when grown up act differently from what his parents did, people say that he has been changed in the womb.