________________ St. 51-57 ) Notes nents. The areas are the elder brothers of the वासुदेवs. The वासुदेवs are rulers of 3 continents who are also called state shafas. 3718 FT NEU (Sk. आयुषः संघानं) joining the links of snapped up life. Life is supposed to be a continuous stream of existences cut into different pieces in the form of different individual existences. No gods or human beings--however powerful they be in other respects are ever able to extend the piece of life (i. e. span of life ) or to connect two pieces of life into one continuous existence. St. 52 The Stanza figliete is not found in the Benares edition and is likely to be spurious being only explanatory of the idea of the previous stanza. The stanza is however read as original in the manuscripts consulted and therefore given here as Stanza 52 in the text. . St. 54 Turzo (Sk. taggeftarefca) preteAT: collection of all possessions i. e. all-inall of existence. The reading qurgarhrdiga is likely to mean mutfartsta losing, as it were, all consciousness. ___St. 56 दूहविआ stands for Sk. दुःखापिता. cf. Here ancor (VIII. 2. 72) St.57 furcarat (Sk, faepannt) The locative stands
