e is only to get at its dust, not at the joy of
the artist.

So having escorted them to the door of the inner sanctuary I take leave
of my readers.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] A jingling sentence in the Bengali Child's Primer.

[2] Exercises in two-syllables.

[3] Roofed colonnade or balcony. The writer's family house is an
irregular three-storied mass of buildings, which had grown with the
joint family it sheltered, built round several courtyards or
quadrangles, with long colonnades along the outer faces, and narrower
galleries running round each quadrangle, giving access to the single
rows of rooms.

[4] The men's portion of the house is the outer; and the women's the
inner.

[5] These Bustees or settlements consisting of tumbledown hovels,
existing side by side with palatial buildings, are still one of the
anomalies of Calcutta. _Tr._

[6] Corresponding to "Wonderland."

[7] There are innumerable renderings of the Ramayana in the Indian
languages.

[8] A kind of crisp unsweetened pancake taken like bread along with the
other courses.

[9] Food while being eaten, and utensils or anything else touched by the
hand engaged in conveying food to the mouth, are considered ceremonially
unclean.

[10] The writer is the youngest of seven brothers. The sixth brother is
here meant.

[11] Obsolete word meaning bee.

[12] The lane, a blind one, leads, at right angles to the front
verandah, from the public main road to the grounds round the house.

[13] God of Death.

[14] Goddess of Learning.

[15] The Jupiter Pluvius of Hindu Mythology.

[16] The King of the Yakshas is the Pluto of Hindu Mythology.

[17] Corresponding to Lethe.

[18] Krishna's playground.

[19] Correspondence clerk.

[20] Spices wrapped in betel leaf.

[21] It is considered sinful for non-brahmins to cast glances on
neophytes during the process of their sacred-thread investiture, before
the ceremony is complete.

[22] Two novices in the hermitage of the sage Kanva, mentioned in the
Sanskrit drama, Sakuntala.

[23] The text for self-realisation.

[24] Bards or reciters.

[25] The Cow and the Brahmin are watchwords of modern Hindu Orthodoxy.

[26] An instrument on which the keynote is strummed to accompany
singing.

[27] A large proportion of words in the literary Bengali are derived
unchanged from the Sanskrit.

[28] Servants call the master and mistress father, and mother, and the
chil