(a) Crescent moon of Çiva; (b) eyes of peacocks’ tails.
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Hiraṇyakaçipu. V. Harivaṃça, 225.
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Or, an ambitious man surrounded by bards (to sing his praises).
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Or, loving blood.
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Nishādas = (a) mountaineers; (b) the highest note of the scale.
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(a) Had passed many ages; (b) had killed many birds.
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Or, great wealth.
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Black.
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Or, Durgā.
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Or, mountain.
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(a) Magnanimity; (b) great strength.
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Anabhibhavanīyā°.
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(a) Awakening cry; (b) moral law.
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Owls are supposed to be descendants of the sage Viçvāmitra.
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As omens.
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Piçitāçna, a demon, or, according to the commentary here, a tiger.
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Lit., ‘creating a doubt of.’
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Cf. Emerson’s Essay on Experience: ‘Sleep lingers all our life-time about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.’
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Read, Çramā.
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Lit., ‘To have been an extract from.’
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Sacred to Indra, and burnt by Agni with the help of Arjuna and Kṛishṇa.
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Three horizontal lines.
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Truth in thought, word, and deed.
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Read, Nishpatatā.
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Nīlapānḍu, mottled blue and white. The Hindu penance is to be between five fires: four on earth and the sun above. V. Manu, vi. 23.
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