es Feuers und des
Goettertrankes_ (1859); Bergaigne, _La Religion Vedique_, i.
148 ff.; Haug's _[=A]itareya Br[=a]hmana_, Introduction, p.
62; Whitney in _Jour. Am. Or. Soc_. III. 299; Muir,
_Original Sanskrit Texts_, vol. V. p. 258 ff., where other
literature is cited.]

[Footnote 14: RV. X. 34. 1; IX. 98. 9; 82.3. The Vedic plant
is unknown (not the _sarcostemma viminale_).]

[Footnote 15: RV. III. 43. 7; IV. 26.6 (other references in
Muir, _loc. cit._ p. 262.) Perhaps rain as _soma_ released by
lightning as a hawk (Bloomfield).]

[Footnote 16: See the passages cited in Muir, _loc. cit_.]

[Footnote 17: A complete account of _soma_ was given by the
Vedic texts will be found in Hillebrandt's _Vedische
Mythologie_, vol. I., where are described the different ways
of fermenting the juice of the plant.]

[Footnote 18: Although so interpreted by Hillebrandt, _loc.
cit._ p. 312. The passage is found in RV. VI. 44. 23.]

[Footnote 19: _Loc. cit._ pp. 340, 450.]

[Footnote 20: Compare IX. 79. 5, where the same verb is used
of striking, urging out the _soma_-juice, _r[=a]sa_.]

[Footnote 21: Compare IX. 32. 2, where "Trita's maidens urge
on the golden steed with the press-stones, _indu_ as a drink
for Indra."]

[Footnote 22: On account of the position and content of this
hymn, Hillebrandt regards it as addressed to
Soma-Brihaspati.]

[Footnote 23: So the sun in I. 163. 9, II. 'Sharpening his
horns' is used of fire in i. 140. 6; v. 2. 9.]

[Footnote 24: VI. 16. 39; vii. 19. I; VIII. 60. 13.]

[Footnote 25 3: IX. 63. 8-9; 5. 9. Soma is identified with
lightning in ix. 47. 3.]

[Footnote 26: _Hukhratus, verethrajao, hvaresa_.]

[Footnote 27: Or: wise.]

[Footnote 28 3: Or: strength. Above, 'shared riches,'
perhaps, for 'got happiness.']

[Footnote 29: Or: thine, indeed, are the laws of King
Varuna.]

[Footnote 30: Or: brilliant and beloved as Mitra (Mitra
means friend); Aryaman is translated 'bosom-friend'--both
are [=A]dityas.]

[Footnote 31: Or: an thou willest for us to live we shall
not die.]

[Footnote 32: Or: lordly plant, but not the moon.]

[Footnote 33: Some unessential verses in the above metre are
here omitted.]

[Footnote 34: Or: shining.]

[Footnote 35: Th