Footnote 49:[(return)] The six acts of a king are peace, war, marching, halting, sowing dissention, and seeking protection.
Footnote 50:[(return)] Tard-mrigam. Formerly Prajapati, assuming the Form of a deer, followed his daughter from lust, and Rudra, armed with a trident, pursued Prajapati and struck off his head. That deer-head of Prajapati severed from the trunk, became the star, or rather constellation, called Mrigasiras.
Footnote 51:[(return)] Abode of Varuna in the original.
Footnote 52:[(return)] Garuda.
Footnote 53:[(return)] Pavana, the God of the wind.
Footnote 54:[(return)] There is a difference of reading here. Some texts read fifty seven.
Footnote 55:[(return)] A difference of reading is observable here.
Footnote 56:[(return)] As a purificatory ceremony, called the Achamana. To this day, no Hindu can perform any ceremony without going through the Achamana in the first instance.
Footnote 57:[(return)] Lit. an engine killing a hundred. Perhaps, some kind of rude cannon.
Footnote 58:[(return)] Perhaps, brands or torches steeped in wax, intended to be thrown in a burning state, amongst the foe. Readers of Indian history know how Lord Lake was repulsed from Bharatpore by means of huge bales of cotton, steeped in oil, rolled from the ramparts of that town, in a burning state, towards the advancing English.