[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 original.  Dawn here pays Night for the latter’s malutinal withdrawing by withdrawing herself.  Strictly speaking, the Dawn is, of course, the sunset light conceived of as identical with that preceding the sunrise ([Greek:  usas, heos], ‘east’ as ’glow’).]

[Footnote 101:  Late as seems this hymn to be, it is interesting in revealing the fact that wolves (not tigers or panthers) are the poet’s most dreaded foes of night.  It must, therefore have been composed in the northlands,