^{page 567 note 1} Compare Muir, 's Sanskrit Texts, vol. i, p. 401 ff.Google Scholar, from almost the same text.

^{page 568 note 1} Avākśirāḥ; here and farther on.

^{page 568 note 2} That is, somewhere to the south of the limit to which the sun goes at the winter solstice.

^{page 568 note 3} That is, in the attitude in which he was and remained when his fall back towards the earth was arrested by Viśvāmitra: see above, and compare the Bhāgavata-Purāṇa, 9. 7. 6.

^{page 569 note 1} I take these to be the four bright stars of the Southern Cross, with its “pointers” α and β Centauri, and perhaps with α Trianguli Australis as the seventh star at the end of the tail of the Bear, or of the pole of the Wain according to the Hindū figuring: see Proctor, 's New Star AtlasGoogle Scholar, plate 12. As regards Triśaṅku himself, the commentary under verse 21 seems to imply that his place was that of a southern pole-star, with the new Saptarshis and other stars circling round him.

^{page 569 note 2} The commentary on Rāmāyaṇa, , § 60, v. 24Google Scholar, supplies another similar term, prati-svarga, “a second heaven,” which does not seem to have found its way into dictionaries.