^115:3 The lamentation of Ragimati on her husband's becoming an ascetic forms the subject of a curious Sanskrit poem called Nemidutakavya, by Vikrama, son of Sanghana, which has been edited in the Kavyamala of 1886. It is what is technically called a samasyapurana or gloss. The last line of each stanza is taken from the Meghaduta of Kalidasa, and the first three lines are added by the poet to make the whole fit the circumstances of his tale.

^116:1 Kukkaphanaga, in Sanskrit kurkaphanaka. According to the scholiasts phanaka is a comb made of bamboo.--I have translated, 'cut off her tresses,' but literally it is: 'plucked out her hair.' However, I do not think that women also are to pluck out their hair.

^116:2 Rathanemi was her husband's elder brother. According to a legend told in Haribhadra's Tika of the Dasavaikalika Sutra (see Leumann in the Journal of the German Oriental Society, vol. 46, p. 597), Rathanemi fell in love with Ragimati. But that lady in order to make him see his wrong, vomited a sweet beverage she had drunk, in a cup and offered it him. On his turning away with disgust she explained to him her meaning: she too had been vomited, as it were, by Arishtanemi, notwithstanding which he wanted to have her. She then taught him the Gaina creed, and he became a monk.

^117:1 Suyanu = sutanu. This may, however, be a proper name, a synonym of Ragimati, for according to the Harivamsa 2029 and the Vishnu Purana IV, 14, Sutanu was a daughter of Ugrasena.

^117:2 Vaisramana is a Prakrit spelling for Vaisravana = Kubera.

^117:3 Nalakubara is Vaisramana's son.

^117:4 Indra.

^118:1 The verses 42, 43, 44, 46 have been received in the Dasavaikalika Sutra II, 7-10, see Leumann's edition of that Sutra quoted in the note, p. 116. A metrical German translation will be found in the same place.

^118:2 On the Bhogas see p. 71, note 2. It is perhaps here misspelt for Bhoga. In the Vishnu Purana, Kamsa, Ugrasena's son, is twice called Bhogaraga (see Wilson's translation, ed. Hall, vol. iv, pp. 260, 271), in contradiction to the common tradition which makes him an Andhaka, compare Patangali on Panini IV, 1, 114.

^118:3 There are said to be two kinds of snakes, the gandhana and the agandhana. The former can be made to suck the poison from the wound they have inflicted; the other will rather die than do so. Cf. Leumann, loc. cit., p. 597, note *.

^118:4 Pistia Stratiotes, an aquatic plant.

^118:5 Devendra here refers to the story of the Nupurapandita, of which he gives a small portion in Prakrit. The whole story 's related in the Parisishtaparvan of Hemakandra, see the introduction to my edition of that work in the Bibliotheca Indica.

^119:1 Compare the last verse of the Ninth Lecture.

TWENTY-THIRD LECTURE .

KESI AND GAUTAMA.