s earnestly on what he calls the "liturgical contamination of the
myths." See vol. iii, p. 320.

[3] R.V., ix, 42, 4.

[4] R.V., ix, 97, 24.

[5] The religion of the Indo-European race, while still united,
"recognized a supreme God; an organizing God; almighty, omniscient,
moral.... This conception was a heritage of the past.... The supreme God
was originally the God of heaven." So Darmesteter, _Contemporary
Review_, October, 1879. Roth had previously written with much learning
and acuteness to the same effect.

[6] Muir's _Sanskrit Texts_, v, 412.

[7] R.V., iii, 62, 10.

[8] The rites, says Haug, "must have existed from times
immemorial."--_Aitareya Brahmana_, pp. 7, 9.

[9] Weber, _History of Indian Literature_, p. 38.

[10] Max Mueller, _Ancient Sanskrit Literature_, p. 389.

[11] "The haughty Indra takes precedence of all gods." R.V., 1,
55.

[12] "These two personages [Indra and Varuna] sum up the two
conceptions of divinity, between which the religious consciousness of
the Vedic Aryans seems to oscillate."--Bergaigne, _La Religion Vedique_,
vol. iii, p. 149.

[13] The meaning of the term is not quite certain. _Sessions_,
or _Instructions_, may perhaps be the rendering. So Monier Williams.

[14] For example, Wordsworth:

"Thou, Thou alone
Art everlasting, and the blessed Spirits
Which Thou includest, as the sea her waves."
--_Excursion_, book iv.

[15] Or, the thing that really is--the [Greek: ontos on].

[16] _Ekamadvitiyam._

[17] This illustration is in the mouth of every Hindu disputant
at the present day.

[18] Barth, p. 75.

[19] _Ekamadvitiyam._

[20]
Volui tibi suaviloquenti
Carmine Pierio rationem exponere nostram
Et quasi Musaeo dulci contingere melle.

[21] Dr. J. Muir, in _North British Review_, No. xlix, p. 224.

[22] _Miscellaneous Writings_ (Macmillan, 1861), vol. i, p.
77.

[23] But the truth is that every man is accounted a good Hindu
who keeps the rules of caste and pays due respect to the Brahmans. What
he believes, or disbelieves, is of little or no consequence.

[24] Yaska, probably in the fifth century B.C.

[25] Weber thinks that Christian elements may have been
introduced, in course of time, into the representation.

[26] His Ramayana was written in Hindi verse in the sixteenth
century.

[27] When Jhansi was captured in the times of the great mutiny
English officers were disgusted