or Kartikeya God of War, the son of Siva and Uma. The babe
was matured in the fire.

151 "At the rising of the sun as well as at noon certain observances,
invocations, and prayers were prescribed which might under no
circumstances be omitted. One of these observances was the
recitation of the Savitri, a Vedic hymn to the Sun of wonderful
beauty." GORRESIO.

_ 152 Tripathaga_, _Three-path-go,_ flowing in heaven, on earth, and
under the earth. See Canto XLV.

153 Tennyson's "Indian Cama," the God of Love, known also by many other
names.

_ 154 Uma_, or _Parvati_, was daughter of Himalaya, Monarch of mountains,
and wife of Siva. See Kalidasa's _Kumara Sambhava_, or _Birth of the
War-God_.

_ 155 Sthanu_. The Unmoving one, a name of Siva.

156 "The practice of austerities, voluntary tortures, and mortifications
was anciently universal in India, and was held by the Indians to be
of immense efficacy. Hence they mortified themselves to expiate
sins, to acquire merits, and to obtain superhuman gifts and powers;
the Gods themselves sometimes exercised themselves in such
austerities, either to raise themselves to greater power and
grandeur, or to counteract the austerities of man which threatened
to prevail over them and to deprive them of heaven.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Such
austerities were called in India _tapas_ (burning ardour, fervent
devotion) and he who practised them _tapasvin_." GORRESIO.

_ 157 The Bodiless one._

158 "A celebrated lake regarded in India as sacred. It lies in the lofty
region between the northern highlands of the Himalayas and mount
Kailasa, the region of the sacred lakes. The poem, following the
popular Indian belief, makes the river Sarayu (now Sarju) flow from
the Manasa lake; the sources of the river are a little to the south
about a day's journey from the lake. See Lassen, _Indische
Alterthumshunde_, page 34." GORRESIO. _Manas_ means mind; _manasa_,
mental, mind-born.

_ 159 Sarovar_ means best of lakes. This is another of the poet's
fanciful etymologies.

160 The confluence of two or more rivers is often a venerated and holy
place. The most famous is Prayag or Allahabad, where the Sarasvati
by an underground course is believed to join the Jumna and the
Ganges.

161 The botanical names of the tree