4. A small principality west of Riwa, and 110 miles north-west of
Jubbulpore. It is also known as Nagaudh, or Nagod.
5. Compare the account of the marriage of the _tulasi_ shrub (_Ocymum
sanctum_) with the salagram stone, or fossil ammonite, in Chapter 19,
_post_.
6. There is a sublime passage in the Psalms of David, where the
lightning is said to be the arrows of God. Psalm lxxvii:
17, 'The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine
arrows also went abroad.
18. The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven; the lightnings
lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.' [W. H. S.]
The passage is quoted from the Authorized Bible version; the Prayer
Book version is finer.
7. 'We guard them from every devil driven away with stones; except
him who listeneth by stealth, at whom a visible flame is darted.'
Koran, chapter 15, Sale's translation. See _post_, end of this
chapter.
8. Nine Hindoos out of ten, or perhaps ninety-nine in a hundred,
throughout India, believe the rainbow to arise from the breath of the
snake, thrown up from the surface of the earth, as water is thrown up
by whales from the surface of the ocean.
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