Narada proceeds to narrate the life of Rama to Valmiki, who feels that the task of writing down what was told him is too great a" work for his powers, until Brahma himself appears, and encourages him to proceed--

"Then come, O best of seers, relate
The life of Rama, good and great;
The tale that saintly Narad told
In all its glorious length unfold." [**]

Footnotes

^363:* "Vishnu Purana," p. 49.

^364:* Muir, O. S. T., i. 36.

^364:+ Ibid., i. 445.

^364:++ Ibid.

^365:* Muir, O. S. T., i. 314.

^366:* Muir, O. S. T., i. 229.

^367:* Muir, O. S. T., i. 442.

^368:* Page 4.

^369:* "Vishnu Purana," p. 83.

^370:* "Vishnu Purana," p. 122.

^371:* Page 123.

^371:+ Griffiths's "Ramayana," ii. 468.

^372:* Griffiths's "Ramayana," ii. 473.

^372:+ Ibid., ii. 474.

^374:* Muir, O. S. T., v. 390.

^374:+ Ibid. i. 224.

^375:* Muir, O. S. T., i. 153.

^375:+ Page 49.

^375:++ Wilson in note, p. 49, "Vishnu Purana."

^375: section Page 116.

^381:* "Vishnu Purana," p. 381.

^382:* "Vishnu Purana," p. 388.

^383:* Sir W. Jones, "Asiatic Researches," i. 264.

^384:* "Hindu Pantheon," p. 91.

^384:+ Ibid., p. 78.

^384:++ "Vishnu Purana," p. 118.

^385:* "Narada Pancharatna," Muir, O. S. T., preface, iv. p. 6.

^385:+ Ibid. i. 117.

^386:* Moor, "Hindu Pantheon," p. 205.

^386:+Griffiths's "Ramayana," i. 3.

^387:* Griffiths's "Ramayana," i. 22.