Kasyap was a grandson of the God Brahma. He is supposed to have
given his name to Kashmir = Kasyapa-mira, Kasyap's Lake.

81 The people of Anga. "Anga is said in the lexicons to be Bengal; but
here certainly another region is intended situated at the confluence
of the Sarju with the Ganges, and not far distant from Dasaratha's
dominions." GORRESIO. It comprised part of Behar and Bhagulpur.

82 The Koil or _kokila_ (Cuculus Indicus) as the harbinger of spring
and love is a universal favourite with Indian poets. His voice when
first heard in a glorious spring morning is not unpleasant, but
becomes in the hot season intolerably wearisome to European ears.

83 "Sons and Paradise are intimately connected in Indian belief. A man
desires above every thing to have a son to perpetuate his race, and
to assist with sacrifices and funeral rites to make him worthy to
obtain a lofty seat in heaven or to preserve that which he has
already obtained." GORRESIO.

84 One of the Pleiades and generally regarded as the model of wifely
excellence.

85 The Hindu year is divided into six seasons of two months each,
spring, summer, rains, autumn, winter, and dews.

86 It was essential that the horse should wander free for a year before
immolation, as a sign that his master's paramount sovereignty was
acknowledged by all neighbouring princes.

87 Called also Vidcha, later Tirabhukti, corrupted into the modern
Tirhut, a province bounded on the west and east by the Gaudaki and
Kausiki rivers, on the south by the Ganges, and on the north by the
skirts of the Himalayas.

88 The celebrated city of Benares. See Dr. Hall's learned and
exhaustive Monograph in the _Sacred City of the Hindus_, by the Rev.
M. A. Sherring.

89 Kekaya is supposed to have been in the Panjab. The name of the king
was Asvapati (Lord of Horses), father of Dasaratha's wife Kaikeyi.

90 Surat.

91 Apparently in the west of India not far from the Indus.

92 "The Pravargya ceremony lasts for three days, and is always
performed twice a day, in the forenoon and afternoon. It precedes
the animal and Soma sacrifices. For without having undergone it, no
one is allowed to take part in the solemn Soma feast prepared for
the gods." Haug's _Aitareya Brahmanam_. Vol. II. p. 41. note _q.v._

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