ad, his beard, and his nails, to grow continually." MENU, vi. 2. et
seqq.]

[Footnote 83: p. 37. l. 18. _pulchris femoribus_. Clausulam hanc prudens omisi.]

[Footnote 84: p. 37. l. 25. _Take thy seat, they said, oh lady_. The
hospitality of the hermits to Damayanti is strictly according to law.
"With presents of water, roots, and fruit, let him honour those who
visit his hermitage."]

[Footnote 85: p. 37. l. 27. _In your sacred fires, your worship._ "Let him, as
the law directs, make oblations on the hearth with three sacred
fires." MENU, vi. 9. Compare iv. 25.]

[Footnote 86: p. 37. l. 27. _--blameless, with your beasts and birds._ Hermits
were to have "a tender affection for all animated bodies," MENU, vi.
8.]

[Footnote 87: p. 38. l. 12. _--twice-born Sages, know ye me_. The three first
castes are "twice-born." The first birth is from the natural mother;
the second from the ligation of the zone; the third from the due
performance of the sacrifice: such are the births of him who is
usually called twice-born, according to the text of the Veda: among
them his divine birth is that which is distinguished by the ligation
of the zone and sacrificial cord, and in that birth the Gayatri is his
mother, and the Acharya his father. MENU, ii. 169.]

[Footnote 88: p. 39. l. 15. _Through devotion now we see him_. The kind of
prophetic trance, in which holy men, abstracted from all earthly
thoughts, were enwrapt, enabled them to see things future.]

[Footnote 89: p. 40. l. 6. _Best of trees, the Asoca blooming_. The Asoca is a
shrub consecrated to Mahadeva; men and women of all classes ought to
bathe, on a particular day, in some holy stream, especially the
Brahma-putra, and drink water with the buds of the Asoca floating in
it. This shrub is planted near the temples of Siva, and grows
abundantly on Ceylon. Sita is said to have been confined in a grove of
it, while in captivity by Ravana; other relators say that she was
confined in a place or house called Asocavan. The Asoca is a plant of
the first order of the eighth class, of leguminous fructification, and
bears flowers of exquisite beauty. Van Rheede (Hortus Malab. vol. v.
tab. 59.) calls it Asjogam. See Asiatic Researches, iii. 254, 277.
MOOR, Hindu Pantheon, 55.]

[Footnote 90: p. 40. l. 17. _Truly be thou named Asoca_. Asoca, from
_a_, privative, and _soka_, grief: a play of words, as when Helen, in
Euripides, is called '[Greek: 'Elenas], the destroyer of ships.' Man