Note 1 — Chapter XIII · CONSOLATION OF BHRIGU.

This colophon occurring at the end of many chapters, shows the intermediate chapters as parts of the lectures of a single day; and by enumeration of which, the whole space of time occupied in the delivery of these lectures may be fairly ascertained. This will serve to show that the delivery of the lectures occupied but a few months; and Válmíki’s writing of them, if he was a shorthand writer, embraced also the same length of time, contrary to the common belief of this composition’s being a work of many years.