⁹⁸ A sacrificial post or pillar usually made of bamboos or the wood of the Khadira to which the victim at a sacrifice is bound. ⁹⁹ Fuel, wood, grass, &c., so employed for enkindling fire. ¹⁰⁰ A ladle or spoon. ¹⁰¹ The juice of a plant of the same name used for drinking purposes. ¹⁰² A wooden frame round the hole in which a sacrificial fire is lighted. ¹⁰³ Those who perform sacrifices. ¹⁰⁴ A kind of sacrifice. ¹⁰⁵ A measure of time equal to thirty Kalas or four minutes. ¹⁰⁶ A minute division of time, the sixtieth part of the twinkling of an eye. ¹⁰⁷ A measure of time the thirtieth part of a _Kala_ or eighteen twinklings of the eye. ¹⁰⁸ A division of time. ¹⁰⁹ A division of time, the thirtieth part of the day and night or an hour of forty-eight minutes. ¹¹⁰ A lunar day, one-thirtieth of a whole lunation. ¹¹¹ Three castes, Brāhmanas, or the priestly caste, Kshatriyas, the military caste and Vaishyas the mercantile caste. ¹¹² Three regions, heaven, earth and the region underneath the earth. ¹¹³ The three Vedas are Rik, Yajush and Saman. ¹¹⁴ Three fires are (1) _Dakshināgni_ or a kind of sacred fire that which is taken from the domestic or consecrated fire and is placed to the south (2) _Garhapatya_ or a perpetual domestic fire (3) _Ahavaniya_ _i.e._, a fire into which oblation is offered. ¹¹⁵ The three Kalas are the present, past and future. ¹¹⁶ The three-fold actions are those partaking of the quality of goodness, darkness, and ignorance respectively. ¹¹⁷ The three-fold means of attaining salvation are, the destruction of self, the acquisition of wealth and hard study. ¹¹⁸ The three-fold qualities are namely, those of goodness, darkness and ignorance. ¹¹⁹ Four classes of priests. ¹²⁰ Four stages of life namely that of a religious student, that of a householder, that of the anchorite, and that of the beggar. ¹²¹ (In anatomy) the blood before it receives the red particles, the Serum. ¹²² The meaning is; as the cloud increases by the help of smoke, light, water and air so the embryo is nourished by food, fire and water. The air mentioned here refers to the vital power. The soul enters in the shape of the vital power. CHAPTER XLI. THE INCARNATIONS OF VISHNU.