^155:2 A full stop should be placed at va. As printed, this sentence is unintelligible.

^155:3 Human sacrifice at the founding of a building, or the like, must have been common in ancient times, so persistent are the traditions about it. For India, see Crooke, Intr. to Pop. Rel. and F.-L. of N. India, p. 237 and Index. When the Hooghly Bridge was built in Calcutta, I remember how it was commonly said by the natives that the builders had immured many young children in the foundations. For Greece it is attested by modern folk-songs such as the Bridge of Arta (Passow, Carm. Pop. Gr. no. 512), and one which I lately wrote down in Cos from oral tradition (published in Folk-Lore for 1899). The sacrifice is meant to propitiate the spirits disturbed by the digging. See Robertson Smith, Religion of the Semites, p. 158.

^156:1 The name here is feminine, as the scholiast notes without explanation.

^159:1

Zenobius, Prov. Cent. I. 27. So Suidas.

^159:2 kinnara.

^159:3 gandhabbaputta.

^160:1 Because their food (grass etc.) depends on rain.

^160:2 Reading paracitte: "everybody is foolish in some other man's opinion." In line 2, there may be a pun on citto (various): "all the world becomes different through the power of thought."