lassical Dictionary of India_.

491 Serpent-gods.

492 See p. 33.

493 The Sanskrit words for car and jewels begin with _ra_.

494 A race of beings of human shape but with the heads of horses, like
centaurs reversed.

495 The favourite wife of the Moon.

496 The planet Saturn.

497 Another favourite of the Moon; one of the lunar mansions.

498 The Rudras, agents in creation, are eight in number; they sprang
from the forehead of Brahma.

499 Maruts, the attendants of Indra.

500 Radiant demi-gods.

501 The mountain which was used by the Gods as a churning stick at the
Churning of the Ocean.

502 The story will be found in GARRETT'S _Classical Dictionary_. See
ADDITIONAL NOTES.

503 Mercury: to be carefully distinguished from Buddha.

504 The spirits of the good dwell in heaven until their store of
accumulated merit is exhausted. Then they redescend to earth in the
form of falling stars.

505 See The Descent of Ganga, Book I Canto XLIV.

506 See Book I Canto XXV.

_ 507 Asoka_ is compounded of _a_ not and _soka_ grief.

508 See Book I Canto XXXI.

509 An Asur or demon, king of Tripura, the modern Tipperah.

510 Siva.

511 See Book I, Canto LIX.

512 The preceptor of the Gods.

513 From the root _vid_, to find.

514 Ravan.

515 Or Curlews' Wood.

516 Iron-faced.

517 Kabandha means a trunk.

518 A class of mythological giants. In the Epic period they were
probably personifications of the aborigines of India.

519 Peace, war, marching, halting, sowing dissensions, and seeking
protection.

520 See Book I, Canto XVI.

521 Or as the commentator Tirtha says, Silapidhana, rock-covered, may be
the name of the cavern.

522 Pampa is said by the commentator to be the name both of a lake and a
brook which flows into it. The brook is said to rise in the hill
Rishyamuka.

523 Who was acting as Regent for Rama and leading an ascetic life while
he mourned for his absent brother.

524 The Indian Cuckoo.

525 The Cassia Fistula or Amaltas is a splendid tree like a giant
laburnum covered with a profusion of chains and tassels of gold. Dr.
Roxburgh well describes it as "uncommonly beautiful when in flower,
few trees surpassing it in the elegance of its numerous long
pendulous racemes of large bright-yellow flowers intermixed with t