903.  In the Bengal texts verse 12 consists of on, line.  This, I think, is correct.  Verses 13, 14, 15, and 16 form one sentence.  Verse 12 is complete by itself.  The udaka in kalodaka should be taken as meaning stream or river otherwise ahoratrajalena would be pleonastic.  Again arthakamajalena, to avoid, redundancy, should be taken as implying the springs that supply the water.  Vihinsa-taruvahina is, ’having benevolence for the trees that float on its water.’  This idea is beautiful.  Creatures that are being home away in, the stream of Time may catch these trees of benevolence for saving themselves.  The Burdwan translator misunderstands vihinsa and makes nonsense of the idea.  Altogether, though highly ornate, the metaphors are original.  Of course, the idea is eminently oriental.  Eastern rhetoric being fond of spinning out metaphors and similes, which, in the hands of Eastern poets, become highly elastic.

904.  K.P.  Singha misunderstands this verse.  The Burdwan translator is also inaccurate.

905.  The place should be a level spot, not impure (such as a crematorium, etc.), free from kankars, fire, and sand, etc.; solitary and free from noise and other sources of disturbance.  Acts include abstention from food and sports and amusements, abstention from all kinds of work having only worldly objects to accomplish, abstention also from sleep and dreams.  Affection means that for good disciples or for progress in yoga.  Objects refer to sacred fuel, water, and suppression of expectancy and anxiety, etc.  Means refer to the seat to be used, the manner of sitting, and the attitude of the body.  Destruction refers to the conquest of desire and attachments, i.e., renunciation of all attractive things.  Certainty means the unalterable belief that what is said about yoga in the Vedas and by preceptors is true.  The nom. sing. inflection stands for the instrumental plural.  Eyes include the other senses.  All these should be restrained.  Food means pure food.  Suppression refers to the subjugation of our natural inclination towards earthly objects.  Mind here has reference to the regulation of the will and its reverse, viz., irresolution.  Survey means reflection on birth, death, decrepitude, disease, sorrow, faults, etc.  In giving these meanings, I, of course, follow Nilakantha.

906.  Notwithstanding Nilakantha’s gloss which shows great ingenuity and which has been apparently followed by both of them, the Vernacular translators have misunderstood Portions of these verses which sketch out the course of life which one desirous of attaining to Emancipation or Brahma is to follow.  Particular virtues or attributes have been represented as particular limbs of the car.  It does not appear that there is (except in one or two instances), any especial aptitude in any of those virtues or attributes for corresponding with One instead of with another limb of the figurative car.  Upastha is that part of the car on which