218 Kumarila says: "In the same manner, if it is said that Indra was the
seducer of Ahalya this does not imply that the God Indra committed
such a crime, but Indra means the sun, and Ahalya (from ahan and li)
the night; and as the night is seduced and ruined by the sun of the
morning, therefore is Indra called the paramour of Ahalya." MAX
MULLER, _History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p. 530_.

219 "The preceding sixteen lines have occurred before in Canto XLVIII.
This Homeric custom of repeating a passage of several lines is
strange to our poet. This is the only instance I remember. The
repetition of single lines is common enough." SCHLEGEL.

220 Divine personages of minute size produced from the hair of Brahma,
and probably the origin of

"That small infantry
Warred on by cranes."

221 Sweet, salt, pungent, bitter, acid, and astringent.

222 "Of old hoards and minerals in the earth, the king is entitled to
half by reason of his general protection, and because he is the lord
paramount of the soil." MANU, Book VIII. 39.

223 Ghi or clarified butter, "holy oil," being one of the essentials of
sacrifice.

224 "A Brahman had five principal duties to discharge every day: study
and teaching the Veda, oblations to the manes or spirits of the
departed, sacrifice to the Gods, hospitable offerings to men, and _a
gift of food to all creatures_. The last consisted of rice or other
grain which the Brahman was to offer every day outside his house in
the open air. MANU, Book III. 70." GORRESIO.

225 These were certain sacred words of invocation such a _svaha_,
_vashat_, etc., pronounced at the time of sacrifice.

226 "It is well known that the Persians were called Pahlavas by the
Indians. The _Sakas_ are nomad tribes inhabiting Central Asia, the
Scythes of the Greeks, whom the Persians also, as Herodotus tells
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