[Footnote 38:  x. 56. 4; otherwise, Grassmann.]

     [Footnote 39:  vi. 73. 9 refers to ancestors on earth, not in
     heaven.]

[Footnote 40:  Compare Muir, OST. v. 285, where i. 125. 5 is compared with x. 107. 2:  “The gift-giver becomes immortal; the gift-giver lives in the sky; he that gives horses lives in the sun.”  Compare Zimmer, Altind.  Leben p. 409; Geiger, Ostiran.  Cultur, p. 290.]

     [Footnote 41:  x. 88. 15, word for word:  “two paths heard of
     the Fathers I, of the gods and of mortals.”  Cited as a
     mystery, Brih. [=A]ran.  Up. vi. 2. 2.]

     [Footnote 42:  x. 16. 3:  “if thou wilt go to the waters or to
     the plants,” is added after this (in addressing the soul of
     the dead man).  Plant-souls occur again in x. 58. 7.]

[Footnote 43:  A V. XVIII.4.64; Muir, Av. loc. cit. p. 298.  A passage of the Atharvan suggests that the dead may have been exposed as in Iran, but there is no trace of this in the Rig Veda (Zimmer, loc. cit. p. 402).]

     [Footnote 44:  Barth, Vedic Religions, p. 23; ib., the
     narrow ‘house of clay,’ RV.  VII. 89. 1.]

     [Footnote 45:  I. 24. 1; I. 125.6; VII. 56.24; cited by
     Mueller, Chips, I. p. 45.]

     [Footnote 46:  IX. 113. 7 ff.]

     [Footnote 47:  Avar[=o]dhana[.m] divas, ’enclosure of the
     sky.’]

     [Footnote 48:  Literally, ‘where custom’ (obtains), i.e.,
     where the old usages still hold.]

     [Footnote 49:  The last words are to be understood as of
     sensual pleasures (Muir, loc. cit. p. 307, notes 462,
     463).]

[Footnote 50:  RV.  II. 29. 6; VII. 104. 3, 17; IV. 5. 5; IX. 73. 8.  Compare Mulr, loc. cit. pp. 311-312; and Zimmer, loc. cit. pp. 408, 418.  Yama’s ‘hero-holding abode’ is not a hell, as Ludwig thinks, but, as usual, the top vault of heaven.]

     [Footnote 51:  loc. cit. p. 123.]

     [Footnote 52:  X. 154. 2; 107. 2.  Compare the mad ascetic,
     muni, VIII. 17. 14.]

[Footnote 53:  X. 117.  This is clearly seen in the seventh verse, where is praised the ‘Brahman who talks,’ i.e., can speak in behalf of the giver to the gods (compare verse three).]

     [Footnote 54:  X. 71. 6.]

[Footnote 55:  Compare X. 145; 159.  In X. 184 there is a prayer addressed to the goddesses Sin[=i]v[=a]l[=i] and Sarasvat[=i] (in conjunction with Vishnu, Tvashtar, the Creator, Praj[=a]pati, and the Horsemen) to make a woman fruitful.]

[Footnote 56:  II. 15. 2; X. 6. 7 (Barth, loc. cit. p. 36).  The sacrifice of animals, cattle, horses, goats, is customary; that of man, legendary; but it is implied in X. 18.8 (Hillebrandt, ZDMG.  Xl p. 708), and is ritualized