ections of the northern origin of the Kurus. It is probable,
he thinks, that some such reminiscences originally existed, and still
survived in the Vedic era, though there is no trace of their existence in
latter times." MUIR'S _Sanskrit Texts_, Vol. II. pp. 336, 337.

Page 428.

_Trust to these mighty Vanars._

The corresponding passage in the Bengal recension has "these silvans in
the forms of monkeys, vanarah kapirupinah." "Here it manifestly appears,"
says Gorresio, "that these hosts of combatants whom Rama led to the
conquest of Lanka (Ceylon) the kingdom and seat of the Hamitic race, and
whom the poem calls monkeys, were in fact as I have elsewhere observed,
inhabitants of the mountainous and southern regions of India, who were
wild-looking and not altogether unlike monkeys. They were perhaps the
remote ancestors of the Malay races."

Page 431.

_"Art thou not he who slew of old_
_The Serpent-Gods, and stormed their hold."_

All these exploits of Ravan are detailed in the _Uttarakanda_, and
epitomized in the Appendix.

Page 434.

_Within the consecrated hall_.

The Brahman householder ought to maintain three sacred fires, the
_Garhapatya_, the _Ahavaniya_ and the _Dakshina_. These three fires were
made use of in many Brahmanical solemnities, for example in funeral rites
when the three fires were arranged in prescribed order.

Page 436.

_Fair Punjikasthala I met._

"I have not noticed in the Uttara Kanda any story about the daughter of
Varuna, but the commentator on the text (VI 60, 11) explains the allusion
to her thus:

"The daughter of Varuna was Punjikasthali. On her account, a curse of
Brahma, involving the penalty of death, [was pronounced] on the rape of
women." MUIR, _Sanskrit Texts_, Part IV. Appendix.

Page 452.

_"__Shall no funereal honours grace_
_The parted lord of Raghu's race?__"_

"Here are indicated those admirable rites and those funeral prayers which
Professor Mueller has described in his excellent work, _Die
Todtenbestattung bei den Brahmanen_, Sita laments that the body of Rama
will not be honoured with those rites and prayers, nor will the Brahman
priest while laying the ashes from the pile in the bosom of the earth,
pronounce over them those solemn and magnificent words: 'Go unto the
earth, thy mother, the ample, wide, and blessed earth.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} And do thou, O
Earth, open and receive him as a friend with sweet greet