[[2]] Cp. also I. 154, 155, and elsewhere. It should be observed that learned doctors differ as to the interpretation of the three strides: but this is not the place to examine their views.
[[3]] From this point of view, the period of Night would be the reign of Tamas, one of the three great categories of that philosophy: the Quality of Darkness, as opposed to Light, Ignorance, as opposed to Knowledge, Evil, as opposed to Good, the World Below, as opposed to the World Above.
[[4]] From the Bhagwad-Gitá: IT is never born and never dies.
CONTENTS.
[Note.—As the story belongs, by its title, both to Sun and Moon, it should be observed, that the Night and the two Twilights, Dusk and Dawn, apply to both in opposite ways. The Moon rises when the Sun sets, reigns over the Night when he is buried in Darkness, and either sets or vanishes when he is risen in his light. For the Moon is the type of Night, or this lower world (ihaloka), but the Sun, of Day, that is, of the other.]
NIGHT.
I. [A Lotus of the Day]
II. [By Beat of Drum]
III. [An Eclipse of the Sun]
IV. [Inspiration]
V. [Nightwalker]
VI. [A Lotus of the Night]
VII. [The Silver Swans]
VIII. [The Land of the Lotus]
IX. [Recognition]
X. [Separation]
XI. [The Lord of the Beasts]
XII. [The Other Body]
XIII. [A Light in Darkness]
XIV. [Illusion]
XV. [The Dead of Night]
XVI. [Before Dawn]