h is Aldebaran." WILSON, _Specimens
of the Hindu Theatre. Vol. I. p._ 234.

The Bengal recension has a different reading:

"Shone with her husband like the light
Attendant on the Lord of Night."

26 The garb prescribed for ascetics by Manu.

27 "Mount Meru, situated like Kailasa in the lofty regions to the north
of the Himalayas, is celebrated in the traditions and myths of
India. Meru and Kailasa are the two Indian Olympi. Perhaps they were
held in such veneration because the Sanskrit-speaking Indians
remembered the ancient home where they dwelt with the other
primitive peoples of their family before they descended to occupy
the vast plains which extend between the Indus and the Ganges."
GORRESIO.

28 The third God of the Indian Triad, the God of destruction and
reproduction. See _Additional Notes_.

29 The epithet _dwija_, or _twice-born_, is usually appropriate to
Brahmans, but is applicable to the three higher castes. Investiture
with the sacred thread and initiation of the neophyte into certain
religious mysteries are regarded as his regeneration or second
birth.

30 His shoes to be a memorial of the absent heir and to maintain his
right. Kalidasa (Raghuvansa, XII. 17.) says that they were to be
_adhidevate_ or guardian deities of the kingdom.

31 Jatayu, a semi-divine bird, the friend of Rama, who fought in
defence of Sita.

32 Raghu was one of the most celebrated ancestors of Rama whose
commonest appellation is, therefore, Raghava or descendant of Raghu.
Kalidasa in the _Raghuransa_ makes him the son of Dilipa and
great-grandfather of Rama. See _Idylls from the Sanskrit_, "Aja" and
"Dilipa."

33 Dundhubi.

34 Literally _ten yojanas_. The yojana is a measure of uncertain length
variously reckoned as equal to nine miles, five, and a little less.

35 Ceylon.

36 The Jonesia Asoka is a most beautiful tree bearing a profusion of
red blossoms.

_ 37 Brahma_, the Creator, is usually regarded as the first God of the
Indian Trinity, although, as Kalidasa says:

"Of Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, each may be
First, second, third, amid the blessed Three."

Brahma had guaranteed Ravan's life against all enemies except man.

38 Ocean personified.

39 The rocks lying between Ceylon and the mainland ar