[Footnote 2: Maheshwara is the ascetic _par excellence_, who punished
Love for trying to tempt him by burning him up like a moth with a
fiery glance from his third eye. And yet for all that, the Master Yogi
was not always proof against feminine fascination: he might be chaste
as ice, yet he has not escaped scandal.]
[Footnote 3: Nandi is the divine Bull, on which, or whom, the Great
God rides.]
[Footnote 4: Had the awful words passed her lips, Nandi was a doomed
bull, as a curse once uttered is irrevocable.]
[Footnote 5: Because he is the Lord of Creatures animate or inanimate,
which all obey him.]