Gorresio.
The wood in which Skanda or Kártikeva was brought up:
“The Warrior-God
Whose infant steps amid the thickets strayed
Where the reeds wave over the holy sod.”
See also [Book I, Canto XXIX].
Righteous because he never transgresses his bounds, and
“over his great tides
Fidelity presides.”
Budha, not to be confounded with the great reformer Buddha, is the son of Soma or the Moon, and regent of the planet Mercury. Angára is the regent of Mars who is called the red or the fiery planet. The encounter between Michael and Satan is similarly said to have been as if