d love in bitter grief.' Her promise to return was fulfilled, but
for a moment only, at the Lotos-lake, and Pururavas in vain beseeches her
to tarry longer. 'What shall I do with thy speech?' is the answer of
Urvasi. 'I am gone like the first of the dawns. Pururavas, go home again.
I am hard to be caught like the winds.' Her lover is in utter despair; but
when he lies down to die, the heart of Urvasi was melted, and she bids him
come to her on the last night of the year. On that night only he might be
with her; but a son should be born to him. On that day he went up to the
golden seats, and there Urvasi told him that the Gandharvas would grant
him one wish, and that he must make his choice. 'Choose thou for me,' he
said: and she answered, 'Say to them, Let me be one of you.' "

COX'S _Mythology of the Aryan Nations._ Vol. I. p. 397.

Page 324.

_The sovereign of the Vanar race._

"Vanar is one of the most frequently occurring names by which the poem
calls the monkeys of Rama's army. Among the two or three derivations of
which the word Vanar is susceptible, one is that which deduces it from
vana which signifies a wood, and thus Vanar would mean a forester, an
inhabitant of the wood. I have said elsewhere that the monkeys, the
Vanars, whom Rama led to the conquest of Ceylon were fierce woodland
tribes who occupied the mountainous regions of the south of India, where
their descendants may still be seen. I shall hence forth promiscuously
employ the word _Vanar_ to denote those monkeys, those fierce combatants
of Rama's army." GORRESIO.

Page 326.

_No change of hue, no pose of limb_
_Gave sign that aught was false in him._
_Concise, unfaltering, sweet and clear,_
_Without a word to pain the ear,_
_From chest to throat, nor high nor low,_
_His accents came in measured flow._

Somewhat similarly in _The Squire's Tale_:

"He with a manly voice said his message,
After the form used in his language,
Withouten vice of syllable or of letter.
And for his tale shoulde seem the better
Accordant to his wordes was his chere,
As teacheth art of speech them that it lere."

Page 329. Rama's Alliance With Sugriva.

"The literal interpretation of this portion of the Ramayana is indeed
deeply rooted in the mind of the Hindu. He implicitly believes that Rama
is Vishnu, who became incarnate for the purpose of destroying the demon
Ravana: that he permitted his wife to be captured by Ravana for the sake
of