agar. The
story is fully told in Book I, Cantos XLII, XLIII, and XLIV.

793 Kritu is the first of the four ages of the world, the golden age,
also called Satya.

_ 794 Parvata_ means a mountain and in the Vedas a cloud. Hence in later
mythology the mountains have taken the place of the clouds as the
objects of the attacks of Indra the Sun-God. The feathered king is
Garuda.

795 "The children of Surasa were a thousand mighty many-headed serpents,
traversing the sky." WILSON'S _Vishnu Purana_, Vol. II. p. 73.

796 She means, says the Commentator, pursue thy journey if thou can.

797 If Milton's spirits are allowed the power of infinite self-extension
and compression the same must be conceded to Valmiki's supernatural
beings. Given the power as in Milton the result in Valmiki is
perfectly consistent.

798 "Daksha is the son of Brahma and one of the Prajapatis or divine
progenitors. He had sixty daughters, twenty-seven of whom married to
Kasyapa produced, according to one of the Indian cosmogonies, all
mundane beings. Does the epithet, Descendant of Daksha, given to
Surasa, mean that she is one of those daughters? I think not. This
epithet is perhaps an appellation common to all created beings as
having sprung from Daksha." GORRESSIO.

799 Sinhika is the mother of Rahu the dragon's head or ascending node,
the chief agent in eclipses.

800 According to De Gubernatis, the author of the very learned,
ingenious, and interesting though too fanciful _Zoological
Mythology_. Hanuman here represents the sun entering into and
escaping from a cloud. The biblical Jonah, according to him,
typifies the same phenomenon. Sa'di, speaking of sunset, says _Yunas
andar-i-dihan-imahi shud_: Jonas was within the fish's mouth. See
ADDITIONAL NOTES.

801 The Buchanania Latifolia.

802 The Bauhinia Variegata.

803 Through the power that Ravan's stern mortifications had won for him
his trees bore flowers and fruit simultaneously.

804 Visvakarma is the architect of the Gods.

805 So in Paradise Lost Satan when he has stealthily entered the garden
of Eden assumes the form of a cormorant.

806 Priests who fought only with the weapons of religion, the sacred
grass used like the verbena of the Romans at sacred rites and the
consecrated fire to consume the o