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NOTES
1. Carrying vases filled rith scentou rater, p. 119. The referenco to arounatic water is frequent, both in Iliucu anul Buldhist writings, but I have failed to find any mention of the manner in which, and the articles with which, water way perfume for 1so. As there is no munition anywhere of tho rose flower, rose-water could not have been intemed. The pancamus water is largely used now all over Indiit, but the pandans is not cominon in the North-Western Provinces. It is probable, therefore, that fonnel aud other seeds were used for perfiuning water.
2. Trois appeare/ pendant under nel corks over towers, palaces anil gateways, p. 119. This is it poetinal embellishaont of it common practice. The practieu of hanging nets over courtyards, and decorating them with artificial toucrs, birds, and fishes inado of tinsel and lightwood (old) is to this day common all over India, an l on the occasion of the Rine.príjií festival is lielid a sine qur non. It is often roferred to in the Bhagavata l'urána. As large assemblagen are generally hell in courtyards cuverod over with a wnings, this network under the awning serves as a pretty decoration. Sometimos the network is set up without the awning.
3. The voices of crows, owls, vultures, wolres and jackals were no longer audible, . 119). T'ho cries of these animals are believed to be portents of evil.
4. These were the thirty-two prevalent omens, p. 119. My Mss. supply only 31 oinens, or rather inerge two oiuns into ono, and thereby reducu the total ly one. The fourth in my toxt runs thus: "Eight tropy grew forth, and twenty hundreds of thousands of stores of innumerable juwels came to view. In the Tibetan version the eight trees constitute one omen, and tho stores another. The Burmese version refers to "thirty-two mighty wonders" (Bigandet I, P. 39), but does not name them in detail. The Rev. Mr. Beal has omitted tho description of the oinens in his translation from the Chinese version.
