240 ([return])
[ This is a triplet in the Bengal texts.]
241 ([return])
[ 66 is a triplet in the Bengal texts.]
242 ([return])
[ Triyama, literally, consisting of three Yamas, a Yama being a watch of three hours. The first hour and a half of the night and the last hour and a half, being regarded as twilight, the night, truly as such, with the ancient Hindoos, consisted of only nine hours.]
243 ([return])
[ Literally, ‘of a thousand Yamas.‘]
244 ([return])
[ The moon is called the lord of lilies because the water-lily is seen to bloom at moonrise, just as the sun is called the lord of the lotuses because the lotus blooms at sun-rise. The direction presided over by Indra means the East.]