ing: enfold him in
thy bosom as a mother wraps her child in her robes.' " GORRESIO.

Page 462.

_Each glorious sign_
_That stamps the future queen is mine_.

We read in Josephus that Caesar was so well versed in chiromancy that when
one day a _soi-disant_ son of Herod had audience of him, he at once
detected the impostor because his hand was destitute of all marks of
royalty.

Page 466.

_In battle's wild Gandharva dance_.

"Here the commentator explains: 'the battle resembled the dance of the
Gandharvas,' in accordance with the notion of the Gandharvas entertained
in his day. They were regarded as celestial musicians enlivening with
their melodies Indra's heaven and the banquets of the Gods. But the
Gandharvas before becoming celestial musicians in popular tradition, were
in the primitive and true signification of the name heroes, spirited and
ardent warriors, followers of Indra, and combined the heroical character
with their atmospherical deity. Under this aspect the dance of the
Gandharvas may be a very different thing from what the commentator means,
and may signify the horrid dance of war." GORRESIO.

The Homeric expression is similar, "to dance a war-dance before Ares."

Page 470.

_By Anaranya's lips of old._

"The story of Anaranya is told in the Uttara Kanda of the Ramayana.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
Anaranya a descendant of Ixvaku and King of Ayodhya, when called upon to
fight with Ravana or acknowledge himself conquered, prefers the former
alternative; but his army is overcome, and he himself is thrown from his
chariot.

When Ravana triumphs over his prostrate foe, the latter says that he has
been vanquished not by him but by fate, and that Ravana is only the
instrument of his overthrow; and he predicts that Ravana shall one day be
slain by his descendant Rama." _Sanskrit Texts_, IV., Appendix.

Page 497.

"With regard to the magic image of Sita made by Indrajit, we may observe
that this thoroughly oriental idea is also found in Greece in Homer's
Iliad, where Apollo forms an image of AEneas to save that hero beloved by
the Gods: it occurs too in the AEneid of Virgil where Juno forms a
fictitious AEneas to save Turnus:

Tum dea nube cava tenuem sine viribus umbram
In faciem AEneae (visu mirabile monstrum)
Dardaniis ornat telis; clipeumque jubasque
Divini assimulat capitis; dat inania verba;
Dat sine mente sonum, gressusque effingit euntis.

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