Note 408 — Chapter I

Vijli or lightning is said to be fettered on the fifth day of the bright half of Āshādh—(or, as some say, on the second day of Shrāvan)401—after which date no apprehensions of its destructive powers need be entertained.408 Till then, however, it is free and is likely to injure those persons409 who have not cut or shaved their hair from their birth.410