Endnotes
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Literally freedom from birth and death. The nearest English equivalent is “salvation.” ↩
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Literally a period of four months. A vow of fasting and semi-fasting during the four months of the rains. The period is a sort of long Lent. ↩
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A sort of fast in which the daily quantity of food is increased or diminished according as the moon waxes or wanes. ↩
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Saptapadi are seven steps a Hindu bride and bridegroom walk together, making at the same time promises of mutual fidelity and devotion, after which the marriage becomes irrevocable. ↩
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Kansar is a preparation of wheat which the pair partake of together after the completion of the ceremony. ↩
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Ahimsa means literally not-hurting, nonviolence. ↩
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Brahmacharya means literally conduct that leads one to God. Its technical meaning is self-restraint, particularly mastery over the sexual organ. ↩
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Eleventh day of the bright and the dark half of a lunar month. ↩
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Laws of Manu the Hindu lawgiver. They have the sanction of religion. ↩
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One who observes brahmacharya, i.e. complete self-restraint. (See note 7.) ↩
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“Nirbal ke bala Rama”—Refrain of Surdas’ famous hymn, “He is the help of the helpless, the strength of the weak.” ↩
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An Indian pulse. ↩
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A knowing one, a seer. ↩
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Throne ↩
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The famous word in Hindu philosophy which is nearly untranslatable, but has been frequently translated in English as “delusion,” “illusion.” ↩
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The prayer prescribed by the Koran. ↩
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The Bhagavad Gita, 2‒59. ↩
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Duties of the four fundamental divisions of Hindu Society. ↩
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See third paragraph of Chapter 13. ↩
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I.e. waiters. ↩
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Regarding the use of the word “volatile,” see note “In Justice to Her Memory,” Young India, 30th June, 1927. ↩
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Monks. ↩
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A place in Porbandar State noted locally for its coarse woollen fabrics. ↩
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Priests. ↩
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Gift. ↩
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Worship. ↩
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A light Indian bedstead. ↩