Notes to the Brahmin’s Lament
153 p. 104. l. 5.—a heaven-winning race may make. Literally: Whom Brahma has placed with me in trust for a future husband, and through whose offspring I may obtain with my progenitors the regions secured by ablutions made by a daughter’s sons. Wilson.
154 p. 104. l. 15. A line is omitted here, which seems to want a parallel to make up the sloka. Bopp has omitted it in his translation.
155 p. 105. l. 21. —Sudra like. The lowest caste who are not privileged, and indeed have no disposition in the native barrenness of their minds to study the sacred Vedas.
156 p. 105. l. 25. As the storks the rice of offering. We follow Bopp in refining these birds from birds of coarser prey.