feet he is said to have been turned into a
cannibal for killing the son of Vasishtha.

251 "In the setting forth of these royal genealogies the Bengal
recension varies but slightly from the Northern. The first six names
of the genealogy of the Kings of Ayodhya are partly theogonical and
partly cosmogonical; the other names are no doubt in accordance with
tradition and deserve the same amount of credence as the ancient
traditional genealogies of other nations." GORRESIO.

252 The tenth of the lunar asterisms, composed of five stars.

253 There are two lunar asterisms of this name, one following the other
immediately, forming the eleventh and twelfth of the lunar mansions.

254 This is another Rama, son of Jamadagni, called Parasurama, or Rama
with the axe, from the weapon which he carried. He was while he
lived the terror of the Warrior caste, and his name recalls long and
fierce struggles between the sacerdotal and military order in which
the latter suffered severely at the hands of their implacable enemy.

255 "The author of the _Raghuvansa_ places the mountain Mahendra in the
territory of the king of the Kalingans, whose palace commanded a
view of the ocean. It is well known that the country along the coast
to the south of the mouths of the Ganges was the seat of this
people. Hence it may be suspected that this Mahendra is what Pliny
calls 'promontorium Calingon.' The modern name, _Cape Palmyras_,
from the palmyras Borassus flabelliformis, which abound there agrees
remarkably with the description of the poet who speaks of the groves
of these trees. _Raghuvansa_, VI. 51." SCHLEGEL.

256 Siva.

257 Siva. God of the Azure Neck.

258 Satrughna means slayer of foes, and the word is repeated as an
intensive epithet.

259 Alluding to the images of Vishnu, which have four arms, the four
princes being portions of the substance of that God.

260 Chief of the insignia of imperial dignity.

261 Whisks, usually made of the long tails of the Yak.

262 Chitraratha, King of the Gandharvas.

263 The Chandrakanta or Moonstone, a sort of crystal supposed to be
composed of congealed moonbeams.

264 A customary mark of respect to a superior.

265 Rahu, the ascending node, is in mythology a demon with the tail of a
dragon whose head was severed from his body