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i. e. , the Himálaya mountain. This was, in a sense true: and yet, she prevaricated.

This epithet refers to his story-telling abundance. Shiwa is credited with the invention of all the stories in literature.

Pronounce to rhyme with "stunned." (As these names will constantly recur, I have, for the benefit of the English reader, cut them down, retaining only their core. At length, they are names of the moon and sun, meaning respectively the Friend of the Lotuses, and the Fierce fire of the Sun.)

Notwithstanding the system of very early marriage, cases of this kind are common in the old stories: as is necessary: for in fairy tales, unmarried heroines and heroes are sine quibus non .

This refers to a story in the Panchatantra , well known in Europe as the fable of the fox who had lost his tail.

i. e. , of virginity.

i. e. , the God of Love.

v. the Kumára Sambhawa , for a full account of Párwati's wooing.

Dusk and Dawn.

The special duty of a king, according to the old Hindoo sages, is to hunger and thirst after earth, like Ovid's Eresichthon.

The monsoon which travels N.E.

One of the heroes in the Mahabhárata.

The preceptor of the gods; as we should say, a Solon.

i. e. , Maheshwara.

i. e. , Spring. Káma and Madhu – Love and Spring – are sworn friends in Hindoo mythology: an obvious poetical allegory, like the ver and Venus of the old Romans.

i. e. , women.

An astrological term, which in modern Marathi, well known to the god, means a marriage.