| [Note 1] | Some repetitionary lines are here omitted. |
| [Note 2] | Technical phrases of Vedic religion. |
| [Note 3] | The whole of this passage is highly involved and difficult to render. |
| [Note 4] | I feel convinced sankhyanan and yoginan must be transposed here in sense. |
| [Note 5] | I am doubtful of accuracy here. |
| [Note 6] | A name of the sun. |
| [Note 7] | Without desire of fruit. |
| [Note 8] | That is,“joy and sorrow, success and failure, heat and cold,” etc. |
| [Note 9] | i.e., the body. |
| [Note 10] | The Sanskrit has this play on the double meaning of Atman. |
| [Note 11] | So in original. |
| [Note 12] | Beings of low and devilish nature. |
| [Note 13] | Krishna. |
| [Note 14] | I read here janma, “birth;” not jara, “age” |
| [Note 15] | I have discarded ten lines of Sanskrit text here as an undoubted interpolation by some Vedantist |
| [Note 16] | The Sanskrit poem here rises to an elevation of style and manner which I have endeavoured to mark by change of metre. |
| [Note 17] | Ahinsa. |
| [Note 18] | The nectar of immortality. |
| [Note 19] | Called “The Jap.” |
| [Note 20] | The compound form of Sanskrit words. |
| [Note 21] | “Kamalapatraksha” |
| [Note 22] | These are all divine or deified orders of the Hindoo Pantheon. |
| [Note 23] | “Hail to Thee, God of Gods! Be favourable!” |
| [Note 24] | The wind. |
| [Note 25] | “Not peering about,” anapeksha. |
| [Note 26] | The Calcutta edition of the Mahabharata has these three opening lines. |
| [Note 27] | This is the nearest possible version of Kshetrakshetrajnayojnanan yat tajnan matan mama. |
| [Note 28] | I omit two lines of the Sanskrit here, evidently interpolated by some Vedantist. |
| [Note 29] | Wombs. |
| [Note 30] | I do not consider the Sanskrit verses here — which are somewhat freely rendered — “an attack on the authority of the Vedas,” with Mr. Davies, but a beautiful lyrical episode, a new “Parable of the fig-tree.” |
| [Note 31] | I omit a verse here, evidently interpolated. |
| [Note 32] | “Of the Asuras,” lit. |
| [Note 33] | I omit the ten concluding shlokas, with Mr. Davies. |
| [Note 34] | Rakshasas and Yakshas are unembodied but capricious beings of great power, gifts, and beauty, same times also of benignity. |
| [Note 35] | These are spirits of evil wandering ghosts. |
| [Note 36] | Yatayaman, food which has remained after the watches of the night. In India this would probably “go bad.” |
| [Note 37] | I omit the concluding shlokas, as of very doubtful authenticity. |
