kinsfolk who are far away. They who hear this poem which
Valmiki made shall obtain all their desires and all their prayers
shall be fulfilled."

_ 1030 The Academy_, Vol. III., No 43, contains an able and interesting
notice of this work from the pen of the Professor of Sanskrit in the
University of Cambridge: "The _Uttarakanda_," Mr. Cowell remarks,
"bears the same relation to the _Ramayana_ as the Cyclic poems to
the _Iliad_. Just as the _Cypria_ of Stasinus, the _AEthiopis_ of
Arctinus, and the little _Iliad_ of Lesches completed the story of
the _Iliad_, and not only added the series of events which preceded
and followed it, but also founded episodes of their own on isolated
allusions in Homer, so the _Uttarakanda_ is intended to complete the
_Ramayana_, and at the same time to supplement it by intervening
episodes to explain casual allusions or isolated incidents which
occur in it. Thus the early history of the giant Ravana and his
family fills nearly forty Chapters, and we have a full account of
his wars with the gods and his conquest of Lanka, which all happened
long before the action of the poem commences, just as the _Cypria_
narrated the birth and early history of Helen, and the two
expeditions of the Greeks against Troy; and the latter chapters
continue the history of the hero Rama after his triumphant return to
his paternal kingdom, and the poem closes with his death and that of
his brothers, and the founding by their descendants of various
kingdoms in different parts of India."

1031 MUIR, _Sanskrit Texts,_ Part IV., pp. 414 ff.

1032 MUIR, _Sanskrit Texts_, Part IV., 391, 392.

1033 See _Academy_, III., 43.

_ 1034 Academy_, Vol. III., No. 43.

1035 E. B. Cowell. _Academy_, No. 43. The story of Sita's banishment will
be found roughly translated from the _Raghuvansa_, in the Additional
Notes.

1036 E. B. Cowell. _Academy_, Vol, III, No. 43.

1037 MUIR, _Sanskrit Texts_, Part IV., Appendix.

1038 Ghi: clarified butter. Gur: molasses.

1039 Haridwar (Anglice Hurdwar) where the Ganges enters the plain
country.

1040 Campbell in "Journ. As. Soc. Bengal," 1866, Part ii. p. 132; Latham,
"Descr. Eth." Vol. ii. p. 456; Tod, "Annals of Rajasthan," Vol. i.
p. 114.

1041 Said by the commentator to be an eastern people between the