660:2 Or with Vishńu in the four modifications described in the first section, spirit, matter, form, and time: see p. 9.

660:3 Or Śakti, noticed in the last chapter, p. 655.

660:4 Or Bhávanás, also described in the preceding section, p. 654.

662:5 This month is also called Jyesht́hamúla, which the commentator explains to mean, the month, of which the root or cause (Múla) of being so called is the moon's being full in the constellation Jyesht́há: but it may be so termed, perhaps, from the lunar asterism Múlá, which is next to Jyesht́há, falling also within the moon's passage through the same month.

663:6 This name is also read Tambamitra. One copy has Tava-mitráya, 'to thy friend,' as if it was an epithet of Dadhícha; but the construction of the verse requires a proper name. 'Bháguri gave it to Tambamitra, and he to Dadhíchi.'

663:7 A different series of narrators has been specified in the first book, p. 9.

663:8 This seems to be an injudicious interpolation; it is not in all the copies.

664:9 The words or prayers employed in presenting oblations with fire.

664:10 The text has, ###. Mána commonly means 'pride,' but here it seems most appropriately rendered by its radical import, 'measure' the measures which are for the determination of measurable things are not applicable to Vishńu.

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