rst an epithet of Savitar, RV. iv. 53.
2; and the golden germ must be fire.]

[Footnote 63: Schoolcraft, _Historical and Statistical
Information_, i. 32. As examples of the many passages where
'water is the beginning' may be cited _Cat. Br._ vi. 7. 1.
17; xi. 1. 6. 1. The sun, born as Aditi's eighth son, is the
bird, 'egg-born,' RV. x. 72. 8.]

[Footnote 64: Among the new curators of Atharvan origin are,
for instance, the sun under the name of Rohita, Desire
(Love), etc., etc.]

[Footnote 65: Illustrations of these contradictions may be
found in plenty _apud_ Muir iv. p. 20 ff.]

[Footnote 66: Nirukta, vii. 4; Muir, _loc. cit._ p. 131 and
v. 17.]

[Footnote 67: _Neu-und Vollmonds Opfer_, 1880. The
_D[=i]ksh[=a]_, or initiation, has been described by
Lindner; the _R[=a]jas[=u]ya_ and _Vajapeya_, by Weber.]

[Footnote 68: The water-sickness already imputed to this god
in the Rig Veda. This tale and that of Bhrigu (referred to
above) show an ancient trait in the position of Varuna, as
chief god.]

[Footnote 69: This is the germ of the pilgrimage doctrine
(see below).]

[Footnote 70: Perhaps (M. ix. 301) interpolated; or the
first allusion to the Four Ages.]

[Footnote 71: These (compare _afri_, 'blessing,' in the
Avesta) are verses in the Rig Veda introducing the
sacrifice. They are meant as propitiations, and appear to be
an ancient part of the ritual.]

[Footnote 72: A group of hymns in the first book of the Rig
Veda are attributed to Dogstail. At any rate, they do allude
to him, and so prove a moderate antiquity (probably the
middle period of the Rik) for the tale. The name, in
Sanskrit Cunascepa, has been ingeniously starred by Weber as
Cynosoura; the last part of each compound having the same
meaning, and the first part being even phonetically the same
_cunas, [Greek: kunhos]_.]

[Footnote 73: _Ait. Br._ viii. 10, 15, 20.]

[Footnote 74: The epic has a later version. This earlier
form is found in _Cat. Br._ i. 8. 1. For the story of the
flood among the American Indians compare Schoolcraft
(_Historical and Statistical Information_), i. 17.]

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CHAPTER X.

BRAHMANIC PANTHEISM.--THE UPANISHADS.

In the Vedic hymns man fears the gods, and imagines God.