3. Here the night-lily closing at dawn.
3. 'Jap-tap: prayers, personal office, daily ritual,—(japa or offerings of water, tapas or 'rule').
8. The moon is brother to the poison, since both were produced at the Churning of the Ocean: a thief because he stole Tārā, the wife of Brihaspati: vomited (unclean) because he escapes from Rāhu's jaws at each eclipse; cruel because his rays are scorching fires to divided lovers; slayer of lilies, because the day-lotus wilts at night; yet in spite of these enormities, some merit makes him bright.
13. Saba guṇa mula amula: A thought akin to that of [LXIII].
Rādhā is here the typical Khaṇḍitā Nāyikā who reproaches her lover when he returns in the morning and has spent the night with some other flame.
6. 'He takes another girl on his knee
And tells her what he dosen't tell me.'
8. Fickle, like the 'rootless' of [LXXIII], 13. Lit. 'His heart is the essence of lightning.'