[Footnote 71: The Hindu scriptures.] [Footnote 72: The Goddess of Prosperity.] [Footnote 73: In the original the lover is not blamed; this would be the Hindu view of the matter; we might be tempted to think of the old injunction not to seethe a kid in the mother’s milk.] [Footnote 74: In the original a “maina “-the Gracula religiosa.] [Footnote 75: As we should say, buried them.] [Footnote 76: A large kind of black bee, common in India.] [Footnote 77: The beautiful wife of the demigod Rama Chandra.] [Footnote 78: The Hindu Ars Amoris.] [Footnote 79: The old philosophers, believing in a “Sat” (xx xx), postulated an Asat (xx xx xx) and made the latter the root of the former.] [Footnote 80: In Western India, a place celebrated for suicides.] [Footnote 81: Kama Deva. “Out on thee, foul fiend, talk’st thou of nothing but ladies?”] [Footnote 82: The pipal or Ficus religiosa, a favourite roosting-place for fiends.] [Footnote 83: India.] [Footnote 84: The ancient name of a priest by profession, meaning “praepositus” or praeses. He was the friend and counsellor of a chief, the minister of a king, and his companion in peace and war. (M. Muller’s Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p. 485).] [Footnote 85: Lakshmi, the Goddess of Prosperity. Raj-Lakshmi would mean the King’s Fortune, which we should call tutelary genius. Lakshichara is our “luckless,” forming, as Mr. Ward says, an extraordinary coincidence of sound and meaning in languages so different. But the derivations are very distinct.] [Footnote 86: The Monkey God.] [Footnote 87: Generally written “Banyan.”] [Footnote 88: The daughter of Raja Janaka, married to Ramachandra. The latter placed his wife under the charge of his brother Lakshmana, and went into the forest to worship, when the demon Ravana disguised himself as a beggar, and carried off the prize.] [Footnote 89: This great king was tricked by the god Vishnu out of the sway of heaven and earth, but from his exceeding piety he was appointed to reign in Patala, or Hades.] [Footnote 90: The procession is fair game, and is often attacked in the dark with sticks and stones, causing serious disputes. At the supper the guests confer the obligation by their presence, and are exceedingly exacting.] [Footnote 91: Rati is the wife of Kama, the God of Desire; and we explain the word by “Spring personified.”] [Footnote 92: The Indian Cuckoo (Cucuius Indicus). It is supposed to lay its eggs in the nest of the crow.] [Footnote 93: This is the well-known Ghi or Ghee, the one sauce of India which is as badly off in that matter as England.] [Footnote 94: The European reader will observe that it is her purity which carries the heroine through all these perils. Moreover, that her virtue is its own reward, as it loses to her the world.] [Footnote 95: Literally, “one of all tastes”--a wild or gay man, we should say.]