15 ([return])
[ This sentence comprises 7, 8 and the first line of 9: I have followed the exact order of the original. The peculiarity of the Sanskrit construction is that the Nominative Pronoun is made to stand in apposition with a noun in the objective case. The whole of this Section contains many such sentences.]
16 ([return])
[ 10 and 11 also refer to Ajatasatru.]
17 ([return])
[ Ghatotkacha was the son of Hidimva by Bhimasena. Rakshasi women bring forth the very day they conceive, and their offspring attain to youth the very day they are born!
18 ([return])
[ Hayaraja, lit., the prince of steeds. He was an Asura, otherwise called Kesi, in the form of a steed.]
19 ([return])
[ i.e., without weapons of any kind.]