Hospitality to a Brahmin is of course one of the greatest virtues.

"A Brahmin coming as a guest, and not received with just honour, takes to himself all the reward of the housekeeper's former virtue, even though he had been so temperate as to live on the gleanings of harvests, and so pious as to make oblations in five distinct fires." Sir W.JONES, Menu, iii.
100.] [Footnote 11: p.3.l.22.

_--as around great Indra's queen_.

Sachi.
Sachi, soft as morning light, Blithe Sachi, from her lord Indrani hight .-- Sir W.JONES's Hymn to Indra.] [Footnote 12: p.4.l.2._Mid her handmaids, like the lightning_.
There are two words of similar signification in the original; one of them implies life-giving.

Lightning in India being the forerunner of the rainy season, is looked on as an object of delight as much as terror.