No CrossRef data available.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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.