46 ([return])
[ Most editions read hema-punkha and silasita in the instrumental plural; the correct reading is their nominative plural forms.]
47 ([return])
[ Sayaka means here, as explained by Nilakantha, a sword, and not a shaft.]
48 ([return])
[ From the colour of his steeds.]
49 ([return])
[ Nilakantha spends much learning and ingenuity in making out that sixty-five years in this connection means thirty-two years of ordinary human computation.]
50 ([return])
[ Some texts read,—‘One large meteor fell.’