[261] اسفنيوس. I am at a loss to find the true name of the Greek sage. In our days a class of Hindus, pursuant to an ante-brahminical worship, venerate spirits, called _Vetals_, to whom in sickness they make vows, to be paid on recovery. The votive offering is generally a cock, the same that the Greeks used to give to Æsculapius, when they thought their cure owing to his sanatory powers――(See the Journal of the A. R. S. of Great Britain and Ireland, No. IX. p. 194.) [262] The prophet Enoch. [263] Perhaps ख दुर्गा _Kha Durga_, “the heavenly Durga.” [264] The names of the country of Kalinga and of the town Sri Kakul occur at p. 3 of this volume. The town now called Cicacole, in the northern Circars, once the capital of an extensive district, is situated in lat. 18° 21´ N., long. 83° 57´ E. [265] ित्शूूूलं a trident, a three-pointed pike, or spear, especially the weapon of Síva. [266] It is, perhaps, _Mahèsvarí_. [267] The name which I find nearest approaching to that above is _Bidzergur_, a town in the province of Allahabad, lat. 24° 37´ N., long. 83° 10´ E., with a fort on a high and steep mountain in the midst of an unhealthy country. [268] िवरात्रिश is a celebrated festival in honor of Síva, on the fourteenth of the moon’s wane, or dark fortnight in Mágha (January, February). [269] पानं drinking in general. [270] स्मृतिशास्त्रं. [271] कविशास्त्रं. [272] तर्कशास्त्रं. [273] वैद्यविद्या. [274] ज्योतिषं mathematical, astronomical, and astrological science. [275] पातञ्जलं The Yoga-system of philosophy, from Patanjeli, the sage by whom it was first taught. [276] तीर्थ. [277] प्रयाग signifies “sacrifice, oblation;” in compositon it is applied to many places of reputed sanctity, situated at the confluence of two rivers, as _Déva-prayága_, _Rudra-práyaga_, _Karna práyaga_, and _Nanda-prayága_, in the Himála mountains, which with Prayága, or Allahabad, constitute the five principal places so termed――(_Wilson’s Dict._, _sub voce_). [278] सप्तर्षि. [279] दम भवानी _dama_ signifies, in the Védas, “the hall of sacrifice.” [280] This verse is taken from the Arabic work entitled “The Birds and the Flowers,” composed by Azz-ed-din Almoka dési, published with a translation and notes by M. Garcin de Tassy.――(See p. 8 of the text, and p. 131 of the notes). [281] The merely cursory mention made of Abu Ali in the foregoing lines, is sufficient for inducing the author to interpose between the Sactis and the Vaishnavas, the account of a man who neither belonged to the Hindus, nor professed their religion.