245 ([return])
[ Dasatakasha-kkupa means the Kakup or direction presided by him of a thousand eyes; hence the East.]
246 ([return])
[ Instead of Vrishodara, the Bombay text reads Vrishottama, which I adopt.]
247 ([return])
[ In the first line of 31, the Bengal texts read Rajanam probably referring to Drupada. The correct reading, however, is Rujendra in the vocative case as in the Bombay edition.]
248 ([return])
[ I render this a little too freely. The form of the oath is, “Let that man lose, etc. whom Drona escapes today with life or whom Drona vanquishes today.”]
249 ([return])
[ This, in the Bengal texts, is a triplet.]