[Footnote 89: p. 40. l. 6. _Best of trees, the Asoca blooming_. The Asoca is a shrub consecrated to Mahadeva; men and women of all classes ought to bathe, on a particular day, in some holy stream, especially the Brahma-putra, and drink water with the buds of the Asoca floating in it. This shrub is planted near the temples of Siva, and grows abundantly on Ceylon. Sita is said to have been confined in a grove of it, while in captivity by Ravana; other relators say that she was confined in a place or house called Asocavan. The Asoca is a plant of the first order of the eighth class, of leguminous fructification, and bears flowers of exquisite beauty. Van Rheede (Hortus Malab. vol. v. tab. 59.) calls it Asjogam. See Asiatic Researches, iii. 254, 277. MOOR, Hindu Pantheon, 55.] [Footnote 90: p. 40. l. 17. _Truly be thou named Asoca_. Asoca, from _a_, privative, and _soka_, grief: a play of words, as when Helen, in Euripides, is called 'Ελενασ, the destroyer of ships.' Many other instances will occur to the classical reader. In Malati and Madhava, the forlorn lover in turn addresses different objects of nature, the clouds, the birds, and the elephants, to inform him whether they have seen his lost mistress. ACT ix. See, however, Mr. WILSON's note, who seems to think that he addresses the sylvan deities.] [Footnote 91: p. 42. l. 8. _--Manibhadra, guard us well_. Manibhadra, the tutelar deity of travellers and merchants: probably a name of Kuvera, the god of wealth.] [Footnote 92: p. 42. l. 11. _To the realm of Chedi's sovereign_. Chedi is the name of the country now called Chandail. The country is perpetually named in the marriage of Roukmini, extracted from the Harivansa by Mons. LANGLOIS, Monumens de l'Inde, p. 96.] [Footnote 93: p. 43. Compare the Raghuvansa, ch. v. 43 to 49.] [Footnote 94: p. 43. l. 12. --_lo, a herd of elephants, Oozing moisture from their temples_-- Where the wild elephant delights to shed The juice exuding fragrant from his head WILSON's Cloud-Messenger, p. 127, and note.] [Footnote 95: p. 44. l. 7. _--the three worlds seemed all appalled_. Swerga, heaven, Martya or Bhumi, the earth, and Patala, hell.] [Footnote 96: p. 44. l. 21. _And Vaisravana the holy_. Vaisravana is another name of Kuvera, the god of wealth.] [Footnote 97: p. 45. l. 13. _In some former life committed_. The soul, in its transmigration, expiates the sins committed in a former state of being. This necessary corollary from the doctrine of the metempsychosis appear to have prevailed among the pharisaic Jews in the time of our Saviour: "Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind." JOHN, ix. 2.] [Footnote 98: p. 46. l. 15. _--in their curious gamesome play_. Kutuhalát, rendered by Bopp 'cum voluptate,' means, 'from curiosity.' WILSON.]