236. Vistarasya evidently refers (as explained by all the commentators) to Vibhutinam. it is a question of grammar and not of doctrine that there can be any difference of opinion. Mr. Davies... Read more

Bring also my variegated, beautiful, and excellent standard, made of gold, possessed of the effulgence of the lotus, and bearing the device of the elephant’s girth, cleaning it with a... Read more

slain by the Pandavas, attainest to heaven, I shall then, on a single car, slay all of them, whom thou regardest as great car-warriors.’ Having said this, mighty-armed Karna of great f... Read more

201. Without leaving anything, i.e., entirely. 202. The Divine-Word i.e., the Vedas. So great is the efficacy of devotion that one merely enquiring of it transcends him who conforms to the r... Read more

161. The word rendered “nature” is prakriti. It really implies “primal matter.” 162. The second line, literally rendered, is “deeming that qualities engage in q... Read more

141. Most texts read Yudhaya Yujyaswa. A manuscript belonging to a friend of mine has the correction in red-ink, Yudhaya Yudhaya Yudhaywa. It accords so well with the spirit of the lesson so... Read more

116. The Bengal texts read, and as I think, correctly, Stutavanta enam. The Bombay reading is Srutavanta enam. In the case of regenerate Rishis and Siddhas it is scarcely necessary to say th... Read more

91. A Kshatriya failing bravely in fight at once goes to the highest regions of bliss. 92. Nilakantha in a long note explains that Magha Vishayagas Somas cannot mean that Soma or the Moon en... Read more

61. The Bombay texts read Tridiva for Nischita; this is incorrect, for Tridiva occurs in the Bombay text itself a little before. The name Lohatarini occurs in various forms. 62. For Vetravat... Read more