264.  The Nishadas were and to this day are the lowest caste in India.

265.  The Bengal reading is vicious, I adopt the Bombay reading which is Surorgurunsha bhuyopi, meaning, “this preceptor again.”  The fact is, Arjuna was Satyaki’s preceptor; Drona, therefore, was the latter’s preceptor’s preceptor.

266.  Kimpurushas were fabled creatures, half men and steeds.  Not a mountain but had its Kimpurushas, according to the Hindu belief.  Yakshas were a sort of superhuman beings inhabiting inaccessible halls and mountains.

267.  I adopt the Bombay reading of the 2nd line of 35 and think that Nilakantha explains it correctly.

268.  I adopt the Bombay reading.

269.  Nilakantha explains this to mean that when he became unconnected with the world, rising superior to everything connected with the world.

270.  The terrible.

271.  Amritasya yonim, literally, the origin or cause of immortality, i.e., he from whom immortality springs.  Hence, as explained by Nilakantha, the phrase means the source of salvation, for those only that are emancipate became immortal as the Supreme Soul itself.

272. i.e., the five attributes perceivable by the five senses, with the five objects of Nature with which they are directly connected or in which they manifest themselves.

273.  Having given it away to Rama, his disciple.

274.  All these terms imply Death or the Destroyer.