he
kings in India were usually of this caste.]

[Footnote 149: p. 93. l. 25. _Raghu_. One of the famous ancestors of Dasaratha.
The poem of the Raghu Vansa has recently appeared, edited by M.
Stenzler.]

[Footnote 150: p. 94. l. 3. _My sire, a Brahmin hermit he--my mother was of
Sudra race_. This seems inconsistent with Menu: "A Brahmin, if he
take a Sudra to his bed as his first wife, sinks to the regions of
torment; if he begets a child by her, he loses even his priestly
rank." iii, 17; also 18, 19.]

[Footnote 151: p. 96. l. 14. _The miserable father now_. See in Menu, the
penalties and expiation for killing a Brahmin undesignedly, xi, 74,
82; compare 90. An assaulter of a Brahman with intent to kill, shall
remain in hell a hundred years; for actually striking him with like
intent, a thousand; as many small pellets of dust as the blood of a
Brahmin collects on the ground, for so many thousand years must the
shedder of that blood be tormented in hell. xi. 207, 8.]

[Footnote 152: p. 97. l. 23. _I've reached the wished for realms of joy_. Among
the acts which lead to eternal bliss are these: "Studying and
comprehending the Veda--showing reverence to a natural or spiritual
father." MENU, xii, 83.]

NOTES TO

THE BRAHMIN'S LAMENT.

[Footnote 153: p. 104. l. 5.--_a heaven-winning race may make_.
Literally: Whom Brahma has placed with me in trust for a future
husband, and through whose offspring I may obtain with my progenitors
the regions secured by ablutions made by a daughter's sons. WILSON.]

[Footnote 154: p. 104. l. 15. A line is omitted here, which seems to
want a parallel to make up the sloka. Bopp has omitted it in his
translation.]

[Footnote 155: p. 105. l. 21. _--Sudra like_. The lowest caste who
are not privileged, and indeed have no disposition in the native
barrenness of their minds to study the sacred Vedas.]

[Footnote 156: p. 105. l. 25. _As the storks the rice of offering_.
We follow Bopp in refining these birds from birds of coarser prey.]

NOTES TO

THE DELUGE.

[Footnote 157: See the very valuable papers of this gentleman in the
Bombay Transactions.]

[Footnote 158: The editor remarks, that the name Manuja, Man-born, as
the appellative of the human race, is derived from Manu, as likewise
Manawas, _masc._ Man--Manawi, _fem._ Woman: from thence the Gothic
_Mann_, which we have preserved. Manu is thus the representative of
Man.]

THE DESCENT OF THE GANGES.

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