mphalum."

167 I omit, after this line, eight _slokes_ which, as Schlegel allows,
are quite out of place.

168 This is the fifth of the _avatars_, descents or incarnations of
Vishnu.

169 This is a solar allegory. Vishnu is the sun, the three steps being
his rising, culmination, and setting.

170 Certain ceremonies preliminary to a sacrifice.

171 A river which rises in Budelcund and falls into the Ganges near
Patna. It is called also _Hiranyarahu_, Golden-armed, and
_Hiranyaraha_, Auriferous.

172 The modern Berar.

173 According to the Bengal recension the first (Kusamba) is called
Kusasva, and his city Kausasvi. This name does not occur elsewhere.
The reading of the northern recension is confirmed by Foe Koue Ki;
p. 385, where the city _Kiaoshangmi_ is mentioned. It lay 500 _lis_
to the south-west of _Prayaga_, on the south bank of the Jumna.
_Mahodaya_ is another name of Kanyakubja: _Dharmaranya_, the wood to
which the God of Justice is said to have fled through fear of Soma
the Moon-God was in Magadh. Girivraja was in the same neighbourhood.
See Lasson's I, A. Vol. I. p. 604.

174 That is, the City of the Bent Virgins, the modern Kanauj or Canouge.

175 Literally, Given by _Brahma_ or devout contemplation.

176 Now called Kosi (Cosy) corrupted from Kausiki, daughter of Kus]a.

"This is one of those personifications of rivers so frequent in the
Grecian mythology, but in the similar myths is seen the impress of
the genius of each people, austere and profoundly religious in
India, graceful and devoted to the worship of external beauty in
Greece." GORRESIO.

177 One of the names of the Ganges considered as the daughter of Jahnu.
See Canto XLIV.

178 The Indian Crane.

179 Or, rather, geese.

180 A name of the God Siva.

181 Garuda.

182 Ikshvaku, the name of a king of Ayodhya who is regarded as the
founder of the Solar race, means also a _gourd_. Hence, perhaps, the
myth.

183 "The region here spoken of is called in the Laws of Manu
_Madhyadesa_ or the middle region. 'The region situated between the
Himalaya and the Vindhya Mountains {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} is called _Madhyadesa_, or the
middle region; the space comprised between these two mountains from
the eastern to the western sea is called by sages Aryavartta,