ig Veda is quite in touch.

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FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: Compare I. 134. 3.]

[Footnote 2: For the different views, see Perry, JAOS. xi.
p. 119; Muir, OST. v. p. 77.]

[Footnote 3: _La Religion Vedique_, ii. pp. 159, 161, 166,
187.]

[Footnote 4: The chief texts are ii. 30. 1; iv. 26. 1; vii.
98. 6; viii. 93. 1, 4; x. 89. 2; x. 112. 3.]

[Footnote 5: Other citations given by Bergaigne in
connection with this point are all of the simile class. Only
as All-god is Indra the sun.]

[Footnote 6: i. 51. 4: "After slaying Vritra, thou did'st
make the sun climb in the sky."]

[Footnote 7: [=A]ditya, only vii. 85. 4; V[=a]l. 4. 7. For
other references, see Perry (loc. cit.).]

[Footnote 8: Bergaigne, ii. 160. 187.]

[Footnote 9: Indra finds and begets Agni, iii. 31. 25.]

[Footnote 10: Unless the Python be, rather, the Demon of
Putrefaction, as in Iranian belief.]

[Footnote 11: Demons of every sort oppose Indra; Vala,
Vritra, the 'holding' snake (_ahi_=[Greek: echis]), Cushna
('drought'), etc.]

[Footnote 12: So he finds and directs the sun and causes it
to shine, as explained above (viii. 3. 6; iii. 44. 4; i. 56.
4; iii. 30. 12). He is praised with Vishnu (vi.69) in one
hymn, as distinct from him.]

[Footnote 13: Bollensen would see an allusion to idols in i.
145. 4-5 (to Agni), but this is very doubtful (ZDMG. xlvii.
p. 586). Agni, however, is on a par with Indra, so that the
exception would have no significance. See Kaegi, Rig Veda,
note 79a.]

[Footnote 14: Or 'pluck with beaks,' as Mueller translates,
SBE. xxxii. p. 373.]

[Footnote 15: "Bore them" (gave an udder). In v. 52. 16
Rudra is father and Pricni, mother. Compare viii. 94. 1:
"The cow ... the mother of the Maruts, sends milk (rain)."
In x. 78. 6 the Maruts are sons of Sindhu (Indus).]

[Footnote 16: I.e., die.]

[Footnote 17: The number is not twenty-seven, as Muir
accidentally states, OST. v. p. 147.]

[Footnote 18: v. 58. 4, 5; I. 88. 1; 88. 5; v. 54. 11; viii.
7. 25; i. 166. 10; i. 39. 1; 64. 2-8; v. 54. 6; i. 85. 8;
viii. 7. 34; v. 59. 2.]

[Footnote 19: He carries lightnings and medicines together
in vii. 46. 3.]

[Footnote 20: Civa is later identified with Rudra. F