Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s4.t2.29

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¹ See p. 317 [Vol. I.]. ² [“The kernel of the Rāmāyana was composed before 500 B.C., while the more recent portions was probably not added till the second century B.C., and later” (Macdonell, Hist. Sanskrit Literature, 309).] ³ One of the names of the divinity of war, whose images are covered with vermilion in imitation of blood. (Qy. the German roodur, ‘red’) [596]. [Rudra, ‘the roarer,’ originally “god of storms.”] ⁴ The Pleiades. ⁵ The festival of the birth of this son of Ganga, or Jahnavi, is on the 10th of Jeth. Sir W. Jones gives the following couplet from the Sancha : “On the 10th of Jyaishtha, on the bright half of the month, on the day of Mangala,* son of the earth, when the moon was in Hasta, this daughter of Jahnu brought from the rocks, and ploughed over the land inhabited by mortals.”