[Footnote 80: p. 37. l. 2. _--sweet as the amrita draught_. For the amrita, the drink of immortality, see Curse of Kehama, the extract from the Mahábhárata quoted by Mr. Wilkins in his notes to the Bhagavat-Gita, and Ramayana, I. 410.] [Footnote 81: p. 37. l. 10. _To the ancient famous hermits_. These famous hermits, whose names I have omitted, were Bhrigu, Atri, and Vasishta.] [Footnote 82: p. 37. l. 11. _Self-denying, strict in diet_. The sixth book of Menu is filled with instructions to those who are engaged in 'tapasa:' it is entitled, "On Devotion." "When the father of a family perceives his muscles become flaccid, and his hair gray, and sees the child of his child, let him then seek refuge in a forest. Abandoning all food eaten in towns, and all his household utensils, let him repair to the lonely wood, committing the care of his wife to her sons, or accompanied by her, if she choose to attend him. Let him take up his consecrated fire, and all his domestic implements of making oblations to it, and departing from the town to the forest, let him dwell in it with complete power over his organs of sense and of action. With many sorts of pure food, such as holy sages used to eat, with green herbs, roots, and fruit, let him perform the five great sacraments before mentioned, introducing them with due ceremonies. Let him wear a black antelope's hide, or a vesture of bark; let him suffer the hairs of his head, his beard, and his nails, to grow continually." MENU, vi. 2. et seqq.] [Footnote 83: p. 37. l. 18. _pulchris femoribus_. Clausulam hanc prudens omisi.] [Footnote 84: p. 37. l. 25. _Take thy seat, they said, oh lady_. The hospitality of the hermits to Damayanti is strictly according to law. "With presents of water, roots, and fruit, let him honour those who visit his hermitage."] [Footnote 85: p. 37. l. 27. _In your sacred fires, your worship._ "Let him, as the law directs, make oblations on the hearth with three sacred fires." MENU, vi. 9. Compare iv. 25.] [Footnote 86: p. 37. l. 27. _--blameless, with your beasts and birds._ Hermits were to have "a tender affection for all animated bodies," MENU, vi. 8.] [Footnote 87: p. 38. l. 12. _--twice-born Sages, know ye me_. The three first castes are "twice-born." The first birth is from the natural mother; the second from the ligation of the zone; the third from the due performance of the sacrifice: such are the births of him who is usually called twice-born, according to the text of the Veda: among them his divine birth is that which is distinguished by the ligation of the zone and sacrificial cord, and in that birth the Gayatri is his mother, and the Acharya his father. MENU, ii. 169.] [Footnote 88: p. 39. l. 15. _Through devotion now we see him_. The kind of prophetic trance, in which holy men, abstracted from all earthly thoughts, were enwrapt, enabled them to see things future.]