270 ([return])
[ The terrible.]
271 ([return])
[ Amritasya yonim, literally, the origin or cause of immortality, i.e., he from whom immortality springs. Hence, as explained by Nilakantha, the phrase means the source of salvation, for those only that are emancipate became immortal as the Supreme Soul itself.]
272 ([return])
[ i.e., the five attributes perceivable by the five senses, with the five objects of Nature with which they are directly connected or in which they manifest themselves.]
273 ([return])
[ Having given it away to Rama, his disciple.]
274 ([return])
[ All these terms imply Death or the Destroyer.]