10.
I am grateful to Professor Nancy Martin, a leading authority on Mirabai, for information adduced here.
11.
The monkey envisaged would probably have been the small but active Bonnet Macaque (Macaca radiata), common in and near places of human habitation in southern India even today, or possibly also its slightly larger cousin, the Rhesus (Macaca mulatta), which has extended its field of operations from northern regions of the subcontinent to the south.
12.
For a detailed discussion of the earlier phases of this controversy among Śri Vaiṣṇavas, see Raman 2007.
13.
Unusually, if not uniquely, in a Hindu theological context, there is no permanent liberation from the cycle of rebirth (saṃsāra) according to the teaching of Swami Dayananda, the founder of the Arya Samaj (see Chapter 4): one may reach the heavenly company of God as a reward for one's good deeds, but when this is expended, there is a return to saṃsāra.
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