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are verses 3-4: 'Come (ye pair of Acvins) like two horns; like two hoofs; like two geese; like two wheels; like two ships; like two spans'; etc. This is the content of the whole hymn.] [Footnote 2: _Deva_ is 'shining' (deus), and _S[=u]rya_ (sol, [Greek: aelios]) means the same.] [Footnote 3: Let the reader note at the outset that there is scarcely an activity considered as divine which does not belong to several gods (see below).] [Footnote 4: From _su, sav_, enliven, beget, etc. In RV. iv. 53.6 and vii, 63.2, _pra-savitar_.] [Footnote 5: RV. VII. 66. 14-15; compare X. 178. 1. In the notes immediately following the numbers all refer to the Rig Veda.] [Footnote 6: V. 47, 3; compare vs. 7, and X. 189. 1-2.] [Footnote 7: Compare X. 177. 1.] [Footnote 8: X. 37. 9.] [Footnote 9: V. 63. 7. Varuna and Mitra set the sun's car in heaven.] [Footnote 10: 1 IV. 13. 2-5; X. 37, 4; 85, 1. But _ib_. 149. 1. Savitar holds the sky 'without support.'] [Footnote 11: VII 63.1; I. 115.11; X. 37. 1.] [Footnote 12: III. 61.4; VII. 63. 3.] [Footnote 13: VII 78.3.] [Footnote 14: I. 56,4; IX. 84. 2; Compare I. 92. 11; 115, 2; 123. 10-12. V. 44. 7, and perhaps 47.6, are late. VII. 75. 5, is an exception (or late).] [Footnote 15: _La Religion Vedique_, I.6; II. 2.] [Footnote 16: Ehni, _Yama,_ p. 134.] [Footnote 17: RV., IV. 54. 2. Here the sun gives life even to the gods.] [Footnote 18: Ten hundred and twenty-eight hymns are contained in the 'Rig Veda Collection.'] [Footnote 19: IV. 14.] [Footnote 20: X. 37; 158; 170; 177; 189. Each has its own mark of lateness. In 37, the dream; in 158, the triad; in 170, the sun as _asurah[=a]_; in 177, the mystic tone and the bird-sun (compare Garutman, I. 164; X. 149); in 189, the thirty stations.] [Footnote 21: See Whitney in _Colebrooke's Essays_, revised edition, ii. p. 111.] [Footnote 22: iv. 54] [Footnote 23: Two 'laps' below, besides that above, the word meaning 'middle' but also 'under-place.' The explanation of this much-disputed passage will be found by comparing I. 154. 5 and VII. 99. 1. The sun's three places are where he appears on both horizons and in the zenith. The last is the abode of the dead where Yama reign
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