117:8 This is the usual account of Daksha's marriage, and is that of the Mahábhárata, Adi P. (p. 113), and of the Bráhma Puráńa, which the Hari Vanśa, in the first part, repeats. In another portion, the Pushkara Máhátmya, however, Daksha, it is said, converts half himself into a female, by whom he begets the daughters presently to be noticed: ###. This seems to be merely a new edition of an old story.

117:9 The commentator explains it to mean the origin, duration, and termination of subtile rudimental body; but the Padma and Linga P. distinctly express it, 'the extent of the earth.'