37.] [Footnote 117: p.59.l.2._By the wind within the forest--fanned, intensely burns the fire._ Kosegarten supposes this to mean, that as the incessant wind kindles the fire in the grove of bamboos, so their repeated words may fan the fire of pity in the heart of Nala.] [Footnote 118: p.63.l.9._To desire this deed unholy._ A second marriage in a woman is considered in India an inexpiable breach of conjugal fidelity.

"A virtuous wife ascends to heaven, though she have no child, if after the decease of her lord she devotes herself to pious austerity.

But a widow, who from a wish to bear children, slights her deceased husband by marrying again, brings disgrace on herself here below, and shall be excluded from the seat of her lord." MENU, v, 160-161.

"She who neglects her former (purva) lord, though of a lower class, and takes another (para) of a higher, becomes despicable in this world, and is called para purva, or one who had a different husband before." Ibid.

163.] [Footnote 119: p.64.l.4._With the ten good marks distinguished._ Avarttas are "locks," curls, or twists of the hair in certain forms on different parts of the body--here they are apparently: forehead 1, head 2, chest 2, ribs 2, flanks 2, crupper 1.