^142:1 Natakam seems to be used in this passage of a band of dancing girls, like the use of Kmmuos of a "band of revellers." The epithets culla, majjhima, jettha, cannot well apply to the age of the women; more probably to their degrees of rank, or perhaps merit, as in the case of culla-majjhima-maha-silam. The women are no doubt in some way attached to the king's court or members of his harem: otherwise he could scarcely look upon a son born to any of them as his heir. As to the licentious observances connected with the desire to remove the sterility of women, the reader may consult Coleman's Mythology of the Hindus, p. 378, and Dubois and Beauchamp's Hindu Manners and Customs, Pt III. Ch. iv. p. 600.

^143:1 harayati, cf. Mahavagga, I. 63 and 64, Jataka, II. 143, IV. 171. Vedic hrinayati, hrinite.

^143:2 Perhaps so called from the colour of the red lotus (kokanada), or from the country of that name. In Jataka, III. 157 it occurs as the name of a palace.

^145:1 avaha is a son's marriage as opposed to a daughter's (vivaha) in the 9th rock edict of Piyadasi. So Jataka, I. 452, 2; IV. 316, 8, and VI. 71, 32.

^146:1 Skt pratiharayati, to have one's-self announced. Cf. Jat. VI. 266, 13 and 295, 1, 2, and Jataka-Mala, XX. 12, S'reshthijataka.

^147:1 Reading akamkhanta.

^147:2 abboharika, Skt avyavaharika. Cf. Jat. III. 309.

^148:1 hattha-vikara occurs in Mahavagga IV. 1. 4, but the exact meaning there is not clear.

^149:1 Reading adarabharane. Another reading gives "being quite a boy."

^151:1 avijjhi. Compare Jat. I. 313, 8, avijjhitva, whirling.

^151:2 Reading vattham.

^153:1 Literally, "fixing the pin (suci) in the bolt, she remained inside." Cf. Cullavagga, VI. 2. 1.

^153:2 avakujja. Cf. Jat. I. 13, 28.

^154:1 Reading abbuddhi for Sanskrit avriddhi. Compare abbuta for avrita, "undisciplined." The commentary gives abhuti which in Vedic and Epic Sanskrit means "calamity."

^154:2 kanikara, pterospermum acerifolium.

^155:1 ammana, a measure of about four bushels, Mil. IV. 1, 19.

^155:2 Literally "With thighs like an elephant's trunk."

^156:1 For the mechanism of the Indian door cf. Cullavagga, VI. 2. 1; avinchanarajju is read there instead of avinjanarajju as here.

^159:1 Dhammaganthika or dhammagandika occurs in Jataka, vol. I. 150, II. 124, III. 41, IV. 176. Cf. Cullavagga, English translation by R. Davids and H. Oldenberg, Vinaya Texts, pt. iii, pp. 144 and 213. In Bengali gandi is a "circle round a criminal," and this meaning suits the context in some of the passages quoted above.

^159:2 Reading himsati, apparently equivalent to hesati.

^161:1 For ratya perhaps we should read ratyo as equivalent to rattiyo in the commentary. Cf. Muller's Pali Gram. p. 72.