[Footnote 136: p. 81. l. 27. _--flowers fell showering all around._ These heavenly beings are ever ready, in the machinery of Hindu epics, to perform their pleasing office (of showering flowers on the head of the happy pair) on every important occasion: they are called Pushpa-vrishti, or flower-rainers. MOOR, Hindu Pantheon, 194. See in the Raghuvansa, ii, 60. No sooner has king Dílípa offered himself to die for the sacred cow of his Brahminical preceptor, than "a shower of flowers" falls upon him.] [Footnote 137: p. 86. l. 3. _--stands the Apsara in heaven._ The birth of the Apsarasas is thus related in the Ramayana. Then from the agitated deep upsprung The legion of Apsarasas, so named That to the watery element they owed Their being. Myriads were they born, and all In vesture heavenly clad, and heavenly gems; Yet more divine their native semblance, rich With all the gifts of grace and youth and beauty. A train innumerous followed, yet thus fair Nor god nor demon sought their widowed love; Thus Rághava they still remain, their charms The common treasure of the host of heaven. --WILSON's Translation, Preface to the Drama of Vikrama and Urvasi, p. 13.] [Footnote 138: p. 87. l. 16. _Pushkara appeased._ The Calcutta edition has a better reading than that of Bopp. Instead of Prasantè Pushkare (Pushkara appeased), it is Prasantè tu pure, (the city being tranquil, the rejoicings having ceased). WILSON.] [Footnote 139: p. 87. l. 21. _Nala sate, as in Nandana_. Nandâna is the garden of Indra.] [Footnote 140: p. 87. l. 23. _Ruled his realm in Jambudwípa_. Sic in Puranis India nominatur. BOPP.] NOTES TO THE DEATH OF YAJNADATTA. [Footnote 141: p. 91. l. 15. _So I the lovely Amra left_. The Amra is the Mangifern Indica. This tree is not only valuable in the estimation of the Indians for the excellence of its fruits; the belief that the burning juice of its flowers is used to steep the darts of love, enhances their veneration for this beautiful tree. It is frequently mentioned in their poetry. M. CHEZY.] [Footnote 142: p. 91. l. 15. _--for the Palasa's barren bloom_. The Palasa is the Butea Frondosa of Koenig. Its flowers, of great beauty, are papilionaceous; and its fruit, entirely without use in domestic economy, compared particularly with the Amra, may well be called barren. M. CHEZY. See Sir W. Jones's Essay on the Botany of India; and the Asiatic Researches, vol. iii.] [Footnote 143: p. 91. l. 19. _--hath fallen upon my fatal head_. "Yes, iniquity once committed, fails not of producing fruit to him who wrought it; if not in his own person, yet in his son's; or if not in his son's, yet in his grandson's." MENU, iv. 173.] [Footnote 144: p. 92. l. 2. _--where haunt the spirits of the dead!_ The south; the realm of Yama, the judge of the dead.]