to have been created by Visvamitra should be seven new
southern stars, a sort of new Ursa. Von Schlegel thinks that this
mythical fiction of new stars created by Visvamitra may signify that
these southern stars, unknown to the Indians as long as they
remained in the neighbourhood of the Ganges, became known to them at
a later date when they colonized the southern regions of India."
GORRESIO.

240 "This cannot refer to the events just related: for Visvamitra was
successful in the sacrifice performed for Trisanku. And yet no other
impediment is mentioned. Still his restless mind would not allow him
to remain longer in the same spot. So the character of Visvamitra is
ingeniously and skilfully shadowed forth: as he had been formerly a
most warlike king, loving battle and glory, bold, active, sometimes
unjust, and more frequently magnanimous, such also he always shows
himself in his character of anchorite and ascetic." SCHLEGEL.

241 Near the modern city of Ajmere. The place is sacred still, and the
name is preserved in the Hindi. Lassen, however, says that this
Pushkala or Pushkara, called by the Grecian writers {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}, the
earliest place of pilgrimage mentioned by name, is not to be
confounded with the modern Pushkara in Ajmere.

242 "Ambarisha is the twenty-ninth in descent from Ikshvaku, and is
therefore separated by an immense space of time from Trisanku in
whose story Visvamitra had played so important a part. Yet Richika,
who is represented as having young sons while Ambarisha was yet
reigning being himself the son of Bhrigu and to be numbered with the
most ancient sages, is said to have married the younger sister of
Visvamitra. But I need not again remark that there is a perpetual
anachronism in Indian mythology." SCHLEGEL..

"In the mythical story related in this and the following Canto we
may discover, I think, some indication of the epoch at which the
immolation of lower animals was substituted for human sacrifice.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} So
when Iphigenia was