'Qui hanc terram totam contraxit,' seems ambiguous.

It may refer to the agency of fire in compacting the world and again consuming it, or simply shrivelling it up, while in the act of consuming.] [Footnote 39: p.11.l.19._He, in awe of whose dread sceptre_.
Yama: he is called the Dharma raja, king of justice.

WILFORD in Asiatic Researches.

Compare SOUTHEY's description in the Curse of Kehama, Canto xxii., with the note from Wilford on which it is founded; and his interview with Sawitri in BOPP's collection of Extracts from the Mahabharata.] [Footnote 40: p.11.l.21.

_--slayer of the infernal host_.