597.  Pranada is interpreted variously.  It may mean He that causes the life-breaths to operate; He that, as Time suspends the life-breaths (i.e., kills all creatures); He that connects the life-breaths (i.e., set them a-going when threatened with extinction; hence, healer of diseases).  Prana implies He who is the cause of the life of every living creature being Himself, as it were, the life-breath that inspires them.  Hiranyagarbha signifies He that is identical with the Grandsire.  Bhugarbha is one who has the Earth for his abdomen, implying that all things on Earth are in His abdomen.

598.  Atmavan, other Beings are said to be Sariravan, Indriyavan, etc., in consequence of the possession of such attributes as Sarira, Indriya, etc.  But the Supreme God-head is nothing but soul.  He rests on his own true nature or essence without requiring anything extraneous like the deities or human beings whereon to live or exist,

599.  Aha is the day; He is so called because of Jiva being, as it were, awakened when he goes to Him.  As long as Jiva is at a distance from Him, he is steeped in the sleep of Avidya or Nescience (a happy word which Professor Max Muller has coined) Samvatsara or the year He is so called because Time is His essence.  Vyala—­He is a huge and fierce snake that inspires dread.

600.  Vrishakapi is otherwise explained by Valadeva Vidyabhushan, as He that showers blessings upon His worshippers and causes all His foes to tremble with fear.

601.  Vishnu is supposed to be within the constellation called Sisumara or the Northern Bear.  The stars, without changing their places per se, seem to revolve round this point within the constellation named.

602.  In India, no man should worship the deities, with a full stomach.  Indeed, one must abstain from every kind of food and drink if one has to worship the deities formally.

603.  Rama of Bhrigu’s race went to Mahadeva for acquiring the science of arms.  While dwelling in Siva’s retreat, he had a quarrel with Karttikeya or Kumara, the son of Siva’s loins.  Rama worsted his preceptor’s son in battle, at which his preceptor, gratified with him, made him a present of his own battle-axe, wherewith the regenerate here exterminated the Kshatriyas for full one and twenty times.

604.  Many of these words beginning with Mahat represent Krishna’s own words as spoken to Arjuna in the Gita.  ’I am the foremost of sacrifices; I am the foremost of sacrificers,’ etc.

605.  Referring to Hanumat and others among the apes that Rama led against Ravana.

606.  The universe consists of Soul and Not-soul.  Jiva, when cased in matter or Not-soul takes Not-soul for himself, in his ignorance.  In fact until true knowledge is attained, the body is taken for self.

607.  The sense is that untimely deaths do not occur in such places; nor fear of oppression or unlawful chastisement by the king; etc.