[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:  The same ideas are prominent in viii. 48,
     where Soma is invoked as ‘soma that has been drunk,’
     i.e., the juice of the (’three days fermented’) plant.]

[Footnote 36:  In the fourth book, iv. 27. 3.  On this myth, with its reasonable explanation as deduced from the ritual, see Bloomfield, JAOS. xvi.  I ff.  Compare also Muir and Hillebrandt, loc. cit.]

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CHAPTER VI.

THE RIG VEDA (CONCLUDED).—­YAMA AND OTHER GODS, VEDIC PANTHEISM, ESCHATOLOGY.