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P. 5, 1. 13.--न पुनरस्माकं तु With the use here of the two adversative

particles, cf. S'âkuntala, Act VII.“किंतु अछ्छरासंबन्धेण उण इमस्स

बालभस्स जणणो इधज्जेव देवगुरुणो तपो वणे पसूदा" p. 176, 114, Calc.

Ed. 1860.

P. 6, 1. 2.-रुद्रेणेदमुमाकृतव्यातिकरे &c. The duality in unity of Śiva

and his wife Pârvatî is represented as having but two sides

between them the left side of Śiva being the same as the

person of Pârvatì, and vice versa, that is, Śiva and Pârvatî are one

individual, the left portion of whose body is female (representing

the goddess), and the right one male (representing the god).

And as Siva is fond of music and dancing, he is represented as

dancing and singing with his consort thus united with him

P. 6, 1. 4-बहुधा. construe with भिन्नरूचैः

P. 6, 1. 9.-विभाव्यताम् ‘Let (the Queen) be made to understand,

i.e. let her be informed, &c

P. 7, 1, 2. -मन्दायणीदोरे. Mandâkinî is a name that usually signifies 'the river of the air or heaven' (the Ganges or a feeder of

it before it reaches the plains?); but it is also the name of an

actual river flowing, according to the Vâyu Purâņa, from the

Riksha mountain. (See Vishņu Purâņa, p. 184. n. 70.) There

is no doubt that the Mandâkinî of the present passage is a river

of the Deccan, And further, it is probable that it may here

stand for the Narmadâ, in conformity with a practice, still very

common all over India, of designating any sacred river by the

most sacred river-name, as Gangâ, &c. The apparent difficulty,

however, would disappear by our reading with G, ण्म्मदा-कूले]

for “ मन्दायणी"[दोरे].

P. 7, 1. 7-जलमिव समुद्रशुक्तौ. Referring to the notion that drops of

rain fallen under the auspices of the asterism or star Arclurus

into the sea-shells produce pearls.