[Savitri-vrata means ‘the vow to Savitri,’ and has no connexion with the _vata_ or banyan-tree. But the tree is worshipped in connexion with it on 15th light or dark fortnight of the month Jeth (_Census Report, Baroda_, 1901, i. 127).] Footnote 4.21.63: _Ap_, ‘water,’ and _sara_, ‘froth or essence.’ [The word means ‘going in the waters, or between the waters of the clouds.’] Footnote 4.21.64: The Romans held the calends of June (generally Jeth) sacred to the goddess Carna, significant of the sun. Carneus was the sun-god of the Celts, and a name of Apollo at Sparta, and other Grecian cities. The Karneia was a festival in honour of Apollo. Footnote 4.21.65: The story of the vigils of Parvati, preparatory to her being reunited to her lord, consequent to her sacrifice as _Sati_, is the counterpart of the Grecian fable of Cybele, her passion for, and marriage with, the youth Atys or _Papas_, the _Baba_, or universal father, of the Hindus. Footnote 4.21.66: How did a word of Persian growth come to signify ‘the boundless brake’ of the new world? Footnote 4.21.67: _Ari_, ‘a foe’; _manus_, ‘man.’ [Angro Mainyush, ‘destructive spirit.’] Footnote 4.21.68: [There is no reason to believe that snake-worship was not independently practised in India.] Footnote 4.21.69: This is the snake-race of India, the foes of the Pandus. Footnote 4.21.70: See p. 364. Footnote 4.21.71: I returned from three to five pieces of gold for the _rakhis_ sent by my adopted sisters; from one of whom, the sister of the Rana, I annually received this pledge by one of her handmaids; three of them I have yet in my possession, though I never saw the donor, who is now no more. I had, likewise, some presented through the family priest, from the Bundi queen-mother, with whom I have conversed for hours, though she was invisible to me; and from the ladies of rank of the chieftains’ families, but one of whom I ever beheld, though they often called upon me for the performance of brotherly offices in consequence of such tie. There is a delicacy in this custom, with which the bond uniting the cavaliers of Europe to the service of the fair, in the days of chivalry, will not compare. Footnote 4.21.72: Sacred to Vishnu, with the title of _Ananta_, or infinite—_Bhavishyottara_. (See _Asiatic Researches_, vol. iii. p. 291.) Here Vishnu appears as ‘lord of the manes.’ ----- CHAPTER 22