ars as
well as in monkeys. In the _Ramayanam_, the wise Jamnavant, the
Odysseus of the expedition of Lanka, is called now king of the bears
(rikshaparthivah), now great monkey (_Mahakapih_)." DE GUBERNATIS:
_Zoological Mythology_, Vol. II. p. 97.

658 Gandhamadana, Angad, Tara, Indrajanu, Rambha, Durmukha, Hanuman,
Nala, Da mukha, Sarabha, Kumuda, Vahni.

659 Daityas and Danavas are fiends and enemies of the Gods, like the
Titans of Greek mythology.

660 I reduce the unwieldy numbers of the original to more modest
figures.

661 Sarayu now Sarju is the river on which Ayodhya was built.

662 Kausiki is a river which flows through Behar, commonly called Kosi.

663 Bhagirath's daughter is Ganga or the Ganges. The legend is told at
length in Book I Canto XLIV. _The Descent of Ganga_.

664 A mountain not identified.

665 The Jumna. The river is personified as the twin sister of Yama, and
hence regarded as the daughter of the Sun.

666 The Sarasvati (corruptly called Sursooty, is supposed to join the
Ganges and Jumna at Prayag or Allahabad. It rises in the mountains
bounding the north-east part of the province of Delhi, and running
in a south-westerly direction becomes lost in the sands of the great
desert.

667 The Sindhu is the Indus, the Sanskrit _s_ becoming _h_ in Persian
and being in this instance dropped by the Greeks.

668 The Sone which rises in the district of Nagpore and falls into the
Ganges above Patna.

669 Mahi is a river rising in Malwa and falling into the gulf of Cambay
after a westerly course of 280 miles.

670 There is nothing to show what parts of the country the poet intended
to denote as silk-producing and silver-producing.

671 Yavadwipa means the island of Yava, wherever that may be.

672 Sisir is said to be a mountain ridge projecting from the base of
Meru on the south. Wilson's _Vishnu Purana_, ed. Hall, Vol. II. p.
117.

673 This appears to be some mythical stream and not the well-known Sone.
The name means red-coloured.

674 A fabulous thorny rod of the cotton tree used for torturing the
wicked in hell. The tree gives its name, Salmali, to one of the
seven Dwipas, or great divisions of the known continent: and also to
a hell where the wicked are tormented with the pickles of the tree.

675 The king of the