180 ([return])
[ Literally, ‘the fact of the Dhartarashtras having sunk (into distress).‘]
181 ([return])
[ Literally, ‘of persons whose coronal locks have undergone the sacred bath.‘]
182 ([return])
[ Praluvdhas is explained by Nilakantha differently. He supposes that Duryodhana here characterises Sikhandin to be a deceitful fowler or hunter in consequence of the deceit with which he caused Bhishma’s fall. This is far-fetched.]
183 ([return])
[ I adopt the Bombay reading.]
184 ([return])
[ The Bombay edition reads this verse differently and introduces another after it which does not occur in the Bengal texts.]