The month is divided into thirty lunar days (tithis), which are personified as nymphs.

See the Dissertation on the lunar year by Sir W.JONES, Asiatic Researches, iii.257.In the Laws of Menu are multifarious directions concerning the day of the moon fit or unfit for particular actions.

"The dark lunar day destroys the spiritual teacher; the fourteenth destroys the learner; the eighth and the day of the full moon destroy all remembrance of Scripture; for which reason he must avoid reading on those lunar days."] [Footnote 43: p.14.l.5._They, the court with golden columns, etc._ The literal rendering is, 'they entered the hall (the stage, or place of exhibition, a spacious court or quadrangle) splendid with columns of gold, and brilliant with a portal; a temporary or triumphal arch (torana).' There is allusion to such a porch or portal in the Mudra Rakshasa (Hindu Theatre, ii.

181, 182), also in the Toy Cart, (i.

82).