poet appears to have forgotten that Suka and Saran were
dismissed with ignominy in Canto XXIX, and have not been reinstated.

946 The four who fled with him. Their names are Anala, Panasa, Sampati,
and Pramati.

947 The numbers here are comparatively moderate: ten thousand elephants,
ten thousand chariots, twenty thousand horses and ten million
giants.

948 The Kinsuk, also called Palasa, is Butea Frondosa, a tree that bears
beautiful red crescent shaped blossoms and is deservedly a favorite
with poets. The Seemal or Salmali is the silk cotton tree which also
bears red blossoms.

949 Varuna.

950 The duty of a king to save the lives of his people and avoid
bloodshed until milder methods have been tried in vain.

951 I have omitted several of these single combats, as there is little
variety in the details and each duel results in the victory of the
Vanar or his ally.

952 Yajnasatru, Mahaparsva, Mahodar, Vajradanshtra, Suka, and Saran.

953 Angad.

954 A mysterious weapon consisting of serpents transformed to arrows
which deprived the wounded object of all sense and power of motion.

955 On each foot, and at the root of each finger.

956 Varun.

957 The name of one of the mystical weapons the command over which was
given by Visvamitra to Rama, as related in Book I.

958 One of Sita's guard, and her comforter on a former occasion also.

959 The preceptor of the Gods.

960 Rama's grandfather.

961 The Gandharvas are warriors and Minstrels of Indra's heaven.

962 "It is to be understood," says the commentator, "that this is not
the Akampan who has already been slain."

963 Ravan's son, whom Hanuman killed when he first visited Lanka.

964 Nila was the son of Agni the God of Fire, and possessed, like
Milton's demons, the power of dilating and condensing his form at
pleasure.

965 An ancient king of Ayodhya said by some to have been Prithu's
father.

966 The daughter of King Kusadhwaja. She became an ascetic, and being
insulted by Ravan in the woods where she was performing penance,
destroyed herself by entering fire, but was born again as Sita to be
in turn the destruction of him who had insulted her.

967 Nandisvara was Siva's chief attendant. Ravan had despised and
laughed at him for appearing in the form of a monkey and the
ir