^271:2 This whole adhyayana is composed in the archaic form of Arya, of which I have treated at length in the thirty-eighth volume of the Journal of the German Oriental Society, p. 594. The same metre occurs also in the Suttanipata of the Buddhists (ed. Fausboll, 26 f., 170 ff.), a fact which I was not aware of when I wrote the paper just referred to.

^272:1 The original has the plural itthio, but the metre requires itthi in the singular.

^272:2 Literally 'sounds,' which stands for objects of the senses in general.

^273:1 There is a saying in German: Eine verliebte Kochin versalzt den Brei, 'a cook in love spoils the soup.' The commentators put different constructions on the last part of the sentence.

^274:1 I.e. Kamasastra, or rather the part of it treating on courtezans, Vaisika, that had been composed by Dattaka. He is mentioned by the commentators in an anecdote they relate ad v. 24.

^274:2 The original has kahinti they will do;' it must be kaham ti 'I shall do.'

^275:1 Visannesi. Vishanna is explained asamyama.

^275:2 Wherewith pigs are decoyed, see above, p. 265, verse 19.