[Footnote 111: p. 54. l. 1. _--like Manmatha's queen divine_. The bride of Kámadeva is Rati, pleasure.] [Footnote 112: p. 54. ls. 4--10. This long train of similes, in which the images of the lotus flower and the moon so perpetually occur, is too characteristic to be omitted or compressed. I have here and there used the license of a paraphrase.] [Footnote 113: p. 54. l. 5. _Like the pallid night, when Rahu_. This is a favourite simile of the Indian poets. That snatched my love from the uplifted sword, Like the pale moon from Rahu's ravenous jaws. WILSON'S Malati and Madhava, p. 62. -------------and now thou fall'st, a prey To death, like the full moon to Rahu's jaws Consigned. Ibid. p. 115. In Indian mythology, eclipses are caused by the dragon Rahu attempting to swallow up the moon. The origin of their hostility is given in a passage quoted by Mr. Wilkins from the Mahabharata, in his notes to the Bhagavat-Gita:--"And so it fell out that when the Soors were quenching their thirst for immortality, Rahu, an Asoor, assumed the form of a Soor, and begun to drink also; and the water had but reached his throat, when the sun and moon, in friendship to the Soors, discovered the deceit, and instantly Narayan cut off his head as he was drinking, with his splendid weapon, chakra. And the gigantic head of the Asoor, emblem of a monstrous summit, being thus separated from his body by the chakra's edge, bounded into the heavens with a dreadful cry, whilst the ponderous trunk fell, cleaving the ground asunder, and shaking the whole earth unto its foundations, with all its islands, rocks, and forest. And from this time the head of Rahu resolved on eternal enmity, and continueth even unto this day at times to seize upon the sun and moon." p. 149.] [Footnote 114: p. 54. l. 15. _To the unadorned a husband._ "Married women must be honoured and adorned by their fathers and brethren, by their husbands, and by the brethren of their husbands, if they seek abundant prosperity." MENU, iii, 55.] [Footnote 115: p. 54. l. 22.--_the moon's bride_. Rohinia. The moon, as in the northern mythologies, is a male deity. See WILFORD, in Asiatic Researches, iii, 384. Rohinia is explained by Mr. Wilson, the fourth lunar asterism, figured by a wheeled carriage, and containing five stars, probably α β γ δ ε, Tauri. In mythology the asterism is personified as one of the daughters of Daksha, and wives of the moon.--Sanscrit Dict. in voce. Comp. Vikrama and Urvasi, p. 57.] [Footnote 116: p. 57. _Dasarna_. Dasarna is mentioned in the Cloud Messenger of Kalidasa. Dasarna's fields await the coming shower. See likewise Mr. Wilson's note, p. 37.] [Footnote 117: p. 59. l. 2. _By the wind within the forest--fanned, intensely burns the fire._ Kosegarten supposes this to mean, that as the incessant wind kindles the fire in the grove of bamboos, so their repeated words may fan the fire of pity in the heart of Nala.]