[Footnote 145: p. 92. l. 3. _--on high the welcome clouds appeared_. The beauty of nature after the rainy season has refreshed the earth, is a favourite topic in Indian poetry. The Cloud Messenger, so gracefully translated by Mr. Wilson, is full of allusions to the grateful progress of the cloud, welcomed as it passes along by the joy of animate and inanimate beings. Quote 61-70, 131-142. Compare, in the Hindu Drama, the Toy Cart, act v.] [Footnote 146: p. 93. l. 2. _As though a pupil's hand accursed_. The offences of a pupil against a tutor, almost the holiest relation of life, are described in the Laws of Menu, ii. 191 to 218, 242, 8. "By censuring his preceptor, though justly, he will be born an ass; by falsely defaming him, a dog; by using his goods without leave, a small worm; by envying his merit, a larger insect or reptile." As the Roman law did not contemplate the possibility of parricide, that of Menu has no provision against the crime in the text.] [Footnote 147: p. 93. l. 6. _--to the five elements returned_. A common Indian phrase for death. The ether is the fifth element.] [Footnote 148: p. 93. l. 15. _Kshatriya_. The second, or warrior-caste. The kings in India were usually of this caste.] [Footnote 149: p. 93. l. 25. _Raghu_. One of the famous ancestors of Dasaratha. The poem of the Raghu Vansa has recently appeared, edited by M. Stenzler.] [Footnote 150: p. 94. l. 3. _My sire, a Brahmin hermit he--my mother was of Sudra race_. This seems inconsistent with Menu: "A Brahmin, if he take a Sudra to his bed as his first wife, sinks to the regions of torment; if he begets a child by her, he loses even his priestly rank." iii, 17; also 18, 19.] [Footnote 151: p. 96. l. 14. _The miserable father now_. See in Menu, the penalties and expiation for killing a Brahmin undesignedly, xi, 74, 82; compare 90. An assaulter of a Brahman with intent to kill, shall remain in hell a hundred years; for actually striking him with like intent, a thousand; as many small pellets of dust as the blood of a Brahmin collects on the ground, for so many thousand years must the shedder of that blood be tormented in hell. xi. 207, 8.] [Footnote 152: p. 97. l. 23. _I've reached the wished for realms of joy_. Among the acts which lead to eternal bliss are these: "Studying and comprehending the Veda--showing reverence to a natural or spiritual father." MENU, xii, 83.] NOTES TO THE BRAHMIN'S LAMENT. [Footnote 153: p. 104. l. 5.--_a heaven-winning race may make_. Literally: Whom Brahma has placed with me in trust for a future husband, and through whose offspring I may obtain with my progenitors the regions secured by ablutions made by a daughter's sons. WILSON.] [Footnote 154: p. 104. l. 15. A line is omitted here, which seems to want a parallel to make up the sloka. Bopp has omitted it in his translation.]