_the
seat of honourable men_.' (MANU, II, 21, 22.) The Sanskrit Indians
called themselves Aryans, which means _honourable_, _noble_, to
distinguish themselves from the surrounding nations of different
origin." GORRESIO.

184 Said to be so called from the Jambu, or Rose Apple, abounding in it,
and signifying according to the Puranas the central division of the
world, the known world.

185 Here used as a name of Vishnu.

186 Kings are called the husbands of their kingdoms or of the earth;
"She and his kingdom were his only brides." _Raghuvansa._

"Doubly divorced! Bad men, you violate
A double marriage, 'twixt my crown and me,
And then between me and my married wife."

King Richard II. Act V. Sc. I.

187 The thirty-three Gods are said in the _Aitareya Brahmana_, Book I.
ch. II. 10. to be the eight Vasus, the eleven Rudras, the twelve
Adityas, Prajapati, either Brahma or Daksha, and Vashatkara or
deified oblation. This must have been the actual number at the
beginning of the Vedic religion gradually increased by successive
mythical and religious creations till the Indian Pantheon was
crowded with abstractions of every kind. Through the reverence with
which the words of the Veda were regarded, the immense host of
multiplied divinities, in later times, still bore the name of the
Thirty-three Gods.

188 "One of the elephants which, according to an ancient belief popular
in India, supported the earth with their enormous backs; when one of
these elephants shook his wearied head the earth trembled with its
woods and hills. An idea, or rather a mythical fancy, similar to
this, but reduced to proportions less grand, is found in Virgil when
he speaks of Enceladus buried under AEtna:"

"adi semiustum fulmine corpus
Urgeri mole hac, ingentemque insuper AEtnam
Impositam, ruptis flammam expirare caminis;
Et fessum quoties mutat latus, intre mere omnem
iam, et coelum subtexere fumo."

AEneid. Lib. III. GORRESIO.

189 "The Devas and Asuras (Gods and Titans) fought in the east, the
south, the west, and the north, and the Devas were defeated by the
Asuras in all these directions. They then fought in the
north-eastern direction; there the Devas did not sustain defeat.
This direction is _aparajita_, _i.e._ u