ds.

736 The God of Wealth.

737 The nymphs of Paradise.

738 Kuvera the son of Visravas.

739 A class of demigods who, like the Yakshas, are the attendants of
Kuvera, and the guardians of his treasures.

740 Situated in the eastern part of the Himalaya chain, on the north of
Assam. The mountain was torn asunder and the pass formed by the
War-God Kartikeya and Parasurama.

741 "The Uttara Kurus, it should be remarked, may have been a real
people, as they are mentioned in the Aitareya Brahmana, VIII. 14.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~}
Wherefore the several nations who dwell in this northern quarter,
beyond the Himavat, the Uttara Kurus and the Uttara Madras are
consecrated to glorious dominion, and people term them the glorious.
In another passage of the same work, however, the Uttara Kurus are
treated as belonging to the domain of mythology." MUIR'S _Sanskrit
Texts_. Vol. I. p. 494. See ADDITIONAL NOTES.

742 The Moon-mountain.

743 The Rudras are the same as the storm winds, more usually called
Maruts, and are often associated with Indra. In the later mythology
the Rudras are regarded as inferior manifestations of Siva, and most
of their names are also names of Siva.

744 Canto IX.

745 Udayagiri or the hill from which the sun rises.

746 Asta is the mountain behind which the sun sets.

747 Himalaya, the Hills of Snow.

748 Canto XI.

749 Hanuman was the leader of the army of the south which was under the
nominal command of Angad the heir apparent.

750 The Bengal recension--Gorresio's edition--calls this Asur or demon the
son of Maricha.

751 The skin of the black antelope was the ascetic's proper garb.

752 Usanas is the name of a sage mentioned in the Vedas. In the epic
poems he is identified with Sukra, the regent of the planet Venus,
and described as the preceptor of the Asuras or Daityas, and
possessor of vast knowledge.

753 Hema is one of the nymphs of Paradise.

754 Merusavarni is a general name for the last four of the fourteen
Manus.

755 Svayamprabha, the "self-luminous," is according to DE GUBERNATIS the
moon: "In the _Svayamprabha_ too, we meet with the moon as a good
fairy who, from the golden palace which she reserves for her friend
Hema (the golden one:) is during a month the guide, in the vast
cavern of Hanum