In this ancient story we are made acquainted with the distant maritime wars which the princes of India carried on. Even supposing Ravana’s abode to be the insular Ceylon, he must have been a very powerful prince to equip an armament sufficiently numerous to carry off from the remote kingdom of Kosala the wife of the great king of the Suryas. It is most improbable that a petty king of Ceylon could wage equal war with a potentate who held the chief dominion of India; whose father, Dasaratha, drove his victorious car (_ratha_) over every region (_desa_), and whose intercourse with the countries beyond the Brahmaputra is distinctly to be traced in the Ramayana. [Dasaratha has no connexion with _desa_: the name means ‘he who possesses ten (_dasa_) chariots (_ratha_).’] Footnote 4.22.14: [_Prosopis spicigera._] Footnote 4.22.15: “A la première lune de chaque année, tous ces officiers, grands et petits, tenoient une assemblée générale à la cour du Tanjou, et y faisoient un sacrifice solennel: à la cinquième lune, ils s’assembloient à Lumtching, où ils sacrifioient au ciel, à la terre, aux esprits, et aux ancêtres. Il se tenoit encore une grande assemblée à Tai-lin dans l’automne, parce qu’alors les chevaux étoient plus gras, et on y faisoit en même-tems le dénombrement des hommes et des troupeaux; mais tous les jours le Tanjou sortoit de son camp, le matin pour adorer le soleil, et le soir la lune. Sa tente étoit placée à gauche, comme le côté le plus honorable chez ces peuples, et regardoit le couchant” (_Avant J.-C. 209; L’Histoire Générale des Huns_, vol. i. p. 24). Footnote 4.22.16: [There is no Skt. word _pola_, ‘gate’; the Hindi _pol_, _paul_ is Skt. _pura dvāra_, ‘city entrance.’] Footnote 4.22.17: [The words _pol_ and _pāl_ are not connected.] Footnote 4.22.18: Hence may be found a good etymology of _janizary_, the guardian of the _serai_, a title left by the lords of Eastern Rome for the Porte. [Turkish _yeni-tsheri_, ‘new soldiery.’] Footnote 4.22.19: In Sanskrit _gana_ (pronounced as _gun_), the _jinn_ of the Persians, transmuted to _genii_; here is another instance in point of the alternation of the initial, and softened by being transplanted from Indo-Scythia to Persia, as _Ganes_ was _Janus_ at Rome. [_Gana_ and _Jinn_, _Ganesa_ and _Janus_, have no connexion. Footnote 4.22.20: The _Casius Mons_ of Ptolemy. [The derivation of the word Caucasus is unknown.] Footnote 4.22.21: Parvati, ‘the mountain goddess,’ was called Sati, or ‘the faithful,’ in her former birth. She became the mother of Jahnavi, the river (_Ganga_) goddess. Footnote 4.22.22: