[377] अंशुः
[378] The Hindus have twelve ádityas, that is, “forms of the sun:” these appear to represent him as distinct in each month of the year.
[379] कला a digit, or 16th part of the moon’s diameter.
[380] नक्षत्र The Pauránic and popular enumeration of those mansions, or constellations is twenty-seven; Abhijit, the twenty-seventh, being considered as formed of portions of the two contiguous asterisms, and not distinct from them.—(Wilson’s Dict.)
[381] अष्ट दिशाः These eight cardinal points have each their regent, viz.:
| पूर्व | its regent is | Indra, | इन्द्रः |
| पश्चिम | — | Varuna, | वरुणः |
| दक्षिण | — | Yama, | यमः |
| उत्तर | — | Kuvéra, | कुवेरः |
| Between | S. and E. | the regent is | अग्नि or वड्निः |
| — | S. and W. | — | नैरॄतः |
| — | N. and W. | — | वायुः |
| — | N. and E. | — | ईशानः |
[382] भैरव “the formidable,” a name of Síva, but more especially an inferior manifestation or form of the deity, eight of which are called by the common name Bhái ravas, and have each a particular name, all alluding to terrific properties of mind or body.
[383] The edit. of Calcutta adds to Chamunda Set mantra.
[384] These are personified energies of the Gods, called Mátris, viz.: क्यलक, कालञ्जरी, कौमारी, वैष्णवी, बाभ्रवी, चमुण्डा, भवानी, पार्वती.