=Like a rudderless boat.=] Notice how the metaphor is kept up to the
end of the sentence.
=The writ of Fate.=] They said that if she was to die, she was to die,
and nothing could prevent it.
=profiting their Brahmin guest.=] She would believe this to be an act
of merit for which she would be rewarded.
=out of his repertory.=] Out of the stock of plays he recited when he
belonged to the theatrical troupe.
=hearing sacred names.=] This also, she believed, would bring her
merit.
=forcing house.=] Like some glass conservatory used for exotic
flowers.
=exact stature.=] The manager wished him to take the parts of women
who are smaller than men.
=came to adequate revelation.=] Were now abundantly apparent.
=twice-born bird.=] Once born in the egg and once after the breaking
of the egg. The goose in the story was the messenger between Nala
and Damayanti.
=the tiger has no wish to become a mouse.=] A reference to a folk
story of a saint who turned a pet mouse into a tiger.
=German silver.=] A kind of cheap silver containing much alloy in it.
=to look for your Damayanti.=] To find Satish a wife.