chief objections to Bergaigne's
conception of Varuna as restrainer is that it does not
explain the antique union with Mitra.]

[Footnote 82: II. 28. 4, 7; VII. 82. 1, 2; 87.2]

[Footnote 83: vii. 87. 6; 88. 2.]

[Footnote 84: viii. 41. 2, 7, 8. So Varuna gives _soma_,
rain. As a rain-god he surpasses Dyaus, who, ultimately, is
also a rain-god (above), as in Greece.]

[Footnote 85: Compare Cat. Br. V. 2.5.17, "whatever is dark
is Varuna's."]

[Footnote 86: In II. 38. 8 _varuna_ means 'fish,' and 'water
in I.184. 3.]

[Footnote 87: V. 62. I, 8; 64.7; 61. 5; 65. 2; 67. 2; 69.1;
VI. 51.1; 67. 5. In VIII. 47.11 the [=A]dityas are
themselves spies.]

[Footnote 88: Introduction to Grassmann, II. 27; VI. 42.
Lex. s. v.]

[Footnote 89: _Religions of India,_ p. 17.]

[Footnote 90: The Rik knows, also, a Diti, but merely as
antithesls to Aditi--the 'confined and unconfined.' Aditi is
prayed to (for protection and to remove sin) in sporadic
verses of several hymns addressed to other gods, but she has
no hymn.]

[Footnote 91: Mueller (_loc. cit._, below) thinks that the
'sons of Aditi' were first eight and were then reduced to
seven, in which opinion as in his whole interpretation of
Aditi as a primitive dawn-infinity we regret that we cannot
agree with him.]

[Footnote 92: See Hillebrandt, _Die Goettin Aditi_; and
Mueller, SBE, xxxii., p. 241, 252.]

[Footnote 93: That is to say, if one believe that the
'primitive Aryans' were inoculated with Zoroaster's
teaching. This is the sort of Varuna that Koth believes to
have existed among the aboriginal Aryan tribes (above, p.
13, note 2).]

[Footnote 94: VII. 77.]

[Footnote 95: Clouds.]

[Footnote 96: The sun.]

[Footnote 97: The priest to whom, and to whose family, is
ascribed the seventh book.]

[Footnote 98: JAOS., XV. 270.]

[Footnote 99: Much theosophy, and even history (!), has been
read into II. 15, and IV. 30, where poets speak of Indra
slaying Dawn; but there is nothing remarkable in these
passages. Poetry is not creed. The monsoon (here Indra) does
away with dawns for a time, and that is what the poet says
in his own way.]

[Footnote 100: Transferred by Roth from the penultimate
position where it stands in the or