| [183] | Pain. |
| [184] | Death. |
| [185] | Tapa—lit. heat—here means the three kinds of pain,—natural, supernatural and that coming from spirits. The word tapa for pain refers to the physical phenomenon accompanying all pain—namely, heat in the part affected. And physical pain in any part of the body is invariably found to be accompanied with heat at that locality.—T |
| [186] | Misery. |
| [187] | Disease. |
| [188] | Decrepitude. |
| [189] | Grief. |
| [190] | Thirst. |
| [191] | Anger. |
| [192] | The reader will readily perceive that all this is allegorical, although the allegory is by no means on all fours. The entire fabric, it may truly be said, of Hinduism is upreared upon an allegorical foundation; but the allegory having been missed, it has degenerated itself into a system of degrading superstition.—T. |