the three worlds with all things moving and stationary."
MANU, XI. 236.

15 Son of Manu, the first king of Kosala and founder of the solar
dynasty or family of the Children of the Sun, the God of that
luminary being the father of Manu.

16 The Indians paid great attention to the art of physiognomy and
believed that character and fortune could be foretold not from the
face only but from marks upon the neck and hands. Three lines under
the chin like those at the mouth of a conch (_Sankha_) were regarded
as a peculiarly auspicious sign indicating, as did also the mark of
Vishnu's discus on the hand, one born to be a _chakravartin_ or
universal emperor. In the palmistry of Europe the line of fortune,
as well as the line of life, is in the hand. Cardan says that marks
on the nails and teeth also show what is to happen to us: "Sunt
etiam in nobis vestigia quaedam futurorum eventuum in unguibus atque
etiam in dentibus." Though the palmy days of Indian chiromancy have
passed away, the art is still to some extent studied and believed
in.

17 Long arms were regarded as a sign of heroic strength.

18 "Veda means originally knowing or knowledge, and this name is given
by the Brahmans not to one work, but to the whole body of their most
ancient sacred literature. Veda is the same word which appears in
the Greek {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}, I know, and in the English wise, wisdom, to wit. The
name of Veda is commonly given to four collections of hymns, which
are respectively known by the names of Rig-veda, Yajur-veda,
Sama-veda, and Atharva-veda."

"As the language of the Veda, the Sanskrit, is the most ancient type
of the English of the present day, (Sanskrit and English are but
varieties of one and the same language,) so its thoughts and
feelings contain in reality the first roots and germs of that
intellectual growth which by an unbroken chain connects our own
generation with the ancestors of the Aryan race,--with those very
people who at the rising and setting of the sun listened with
trembling hearts to the songs of the Veda, that told them of bright
powers above, and of a life to come after the sun of their own lives
had set in the clo