ises in the morning, he having come to the
end of the night, turns round, and makes day below, night
above. He never really sets. Whoever knows this of him, that
he never sets, obtains union and likeness of form with the
sun, and the same abode as the sun's." Compare Muir, OST. v.
521. This may be the real reason why the Rig Veda speaks of
a dark and light sun.]

[Footnote 59: _Cat. Br._. i. 4. 3. 11-22 ('The sinner shall
suffer and go quickly to yonder world'); xi. 6. 1 (compare
Weber, _loc. cit._ p. 20 ff.; ZDMG. ix. 237), the Bhrigu
story, of which a more modern form is found in the Upanishad
period. For the course of the sun, the fires on either side
of the way, the departure to heaven 'with the whole body,'
compare _Cat. Br._ i. 9. 3. 2-15; iv. 5. 1. 1; vi. 6. 2. 4;
xi. 2. 7. 33; Weber, _loc. cit._: Muir, _loc. cit._ v. p.
314. Not to have all one's bones in the next world is a
disgrace, as Muir says, and for that reason they are
collected at burial. Compare the custom as described by the
French missionaries here. The American Indian has to have
all his bones for future use, and the burying of the
skeleton is an annual religious ceremony.]

[Footnote 60: Compare RV. iv. 28. 4: 'Thou Indra madest
lowest the heathen.' Weber has shown, _loc. cit._, that the
general notion of the Br[=a]hmanas is that all are born
again in the next world, where they are rewarded or punished
according as they are good or bad; whereas in the Rig Veda
the good rejoice in heaven, and the bad are annihilated.
This general view is to be modified, however, by such
side-theories as those just mentioned, that the good (or
wise) may be reborn on earth, or be united with gods, or
become sunlight or stars (the latter are 'watery' to the
Hindu, and this may explain the statement that the soul is
'in the midst of waters').]

[Footnote 61: There is in this age no notion of the repeated
creations found in later literature. On the contrary, it is
expressly said in the Rig Veda, vi. 48. 22, that heaven and
earth are created but once: "Only once was heaven created,
only once was earth created," Zimmer, AIL. 408.]

[Footnote 62: When the principle of life is explained it is
in terms of sun or fire. Thus Praj[=a]pati, Lord of beings,
or Father-god, is fi