ffering of ghee.

807 One of the Rakshas lords.

808 The brother Ravan.

809 Indra's elephant.

810 Ravan's palace appears to have occupied the whole extent of ground,
and to have contained within its outer walls the mansions of all the
great Rakshas chiefs. Ravan's own dwelling seems to have been
situated within the enchanted chariot Pushpak: but the description
is involved and confused, and it is difficult to say whether the
chariot was inside the palace or the palace inside the chariot.

811 Pushpak from _pushpa_ a flower. The car has been mentioned before in
Ravan's expedition to carry off Sita, Book III, Canto XXXV.

812 Lakshmi is the wife of Vishnu and the Goddess of Beauty and
Felicity. She rose, like Aphrodite, from the foam of the sea. For an
account of her birth and beauty, see Book I, Canto XLV.

813 Visvakarma is the architect of the Gods, the Hephaestos or Mulciber
of the Indian heaven.

814 Ravan in the resistless power which his long austerities had endowed
him with, had conquered his brother Kuvera the God of Gold and taken
from him his greatest treasure this enchanted car.

815 Like Milton's heavenly car, "Itself instinct with spirit."

816 Women, says Valmiki. But the Commentator says that automatic figures
only are meant. Women would have seen Hanuman and given the alarm.

817 Ravan had fought against Indra and the Gods, and his body was still
scarred by the wounds inflicted by the tusks of Indra's elephant and
by the fiery bolts of the Thunderer.

818 The Vasus are a class of eight deities, originally personifications
of natural phenomena.

819 The Maruts are the winds or Storm-Gods.

820 The Adityas originally seven deities of the heavenly sphere of whom
Varuna is the chief. The name Aditya was afterwards given to any
God, specially to Surya the Sun.

821 The Asvins are the Heavenly Twins, the Castor and Pollux of the
Hindus.

822 The poet forgets that Hanuman has reduced himself to the size of a
cat.

823 Sita "not of woman born," was found by King Janak as he was turning
up the ground in preparation for a sacrifice. See Book II, Canto
CXVIII.

824 The six _Angas_ or subordinate branches of the Vedas are 1.
_Siksha_, the science of proper articulation and pronunciation: 2.
_Chhandas_, metre: 3. _Vyakarana