Page 161.

Now, Lakshmaṇ, as our cot is made,

Must sacrifice be duly paid.

The rites performed in India on the completion of a house are represented in modern Europe by the familiar “house-warming.”

Page 169.

I longed with all my lawless will

Some elephant by night to kill.

One of the regal or military caste was forbidden to kill an elephant except in battle.