] _Vana Parva_ section of the _Mahabharata_ (Roy's trans.), pp. 435-60,
and _Indian Myth and Legend_, pp. 105-9.

[223] _Vana Parva_ section of the _Mahabharata_ (Roy's translation), pp.
832, 833.

[224] Ea addresses the hut in which his human favourite, Pir-napishtim,
slept. His message was conveyed to this man in a dream.

[225] The second sentence of Ea's speech is conjectural, as the lines are
mutilated.

[226] _The Muses' Pageant_, W.M.L. Hutchinson, pp. 5 _et seq._

[227] _Indian Myth and Legend_, pp. 107 _et seq._

[228] _Vana Parva_ section of the _Mahabharata_ (Roy's trans.), p. 425.

[229] _Indian Myth and Legend_, p. 141.

[230] _Book of Leinster_, and Keating's _History of Ireland_, p. 150 (1811
ed.).

[231] _Religion of the Ancient Egyptians_, A. Wiedemann, pp. 58 _et seq._

[232] Pinches' _The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, p. 42.

[233] The problems involved are discussed from different points of view by
Mr. L.W. King in _Babylonian Religion_ (Books on Egypt and Chaldaea,
vol. iv), Professor Pinches in _The Old Testament in the Light of the
Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia_, and other
vols.

[234] _Primitive Constellations_, vol. i, pp. 334-5.

[235] _Indian Myth and Legend_, chap. iii.

[236] Professor Macdonell's translation.

[237] _Indian Wisdom_.

[238] "Varuna, the deity bearing the noose as his weapon", _Sabha Parva_
section of the _Mahabharata_ (Roy's trans.), p. 29.

[239] _Indian Myth and Legend_, pp. 38-42.

[240] _Early Religious Poetry of Persia_, J.H. Moulton, pp. 41 _et seq._ and
154 _et seq._

[241] _The Elder Edda_, O. Bray, p. 55.

[242] _The Elder Edda_, O. Bray, pp. 291 _et seq._

[243] _Celtic Myth and Legend_, pp. 133 _et seq._

[244] Tennyson's _The Passing of Arthur_.

[245] _Job_, x, 1-22.

[246] _The Elder Edda_, O. Bray, pp. 150-1.

[247] _Indian Myth and Legend_, p. 326.

[248] _The Religion of Ancient Rome_, Cyril Bailey, p. 50.

[249] _The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great (Ethiopic version of the
Pseudo Callisthenes)_, pp. 133-4. The conversation possibly never took
place, but it is of interest in so far as it reflects beliefs which
were familiar to the author of this ancient work. His Brahmans
evidently believed that immortality was denied to ordinary men, and
reserved only for the king, who was the representative of the deity,
of course.

[250] _Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and