[Footnote 5:  To be let loose that it might put out the lights.]

[Footnote 6:  Hindoo women, when absent from their husbands, always wear, or used to wear, their hair done up into a single braid.]

[Footnote 7:  The author has here made a mistake which cannot be explained.  In the introductory chapter Pramati is the son of Sumati, and there is nowhere mention of a second son of Kamapala.  The confusion of names is, however, of little importance, since the adventures of Arthapala and Pramati are quite distinct.]

[Footnote 8:  Increaser of virtue.]

[Footnote 9:  It was considered a very great sin to be, even indirectly, the cause of the death of a brahman.]

[Footnote 10:  An evil spirit, the ghoul of the “Arabian Nights,” the readers of which will remember the story of Amina, who goes out at night to feast on dead bodies.]

[Footnote 11:  The inhabitant of Vindhya.]

[Footnote 12:  Resembling tendrils.]

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