[Footnote 4:  The chief texts are ii. 30. 1; iv. 26. 1; vii.
     98. 6; viii. 93. 1, 4; x. 89. 2; x. 112. 3.]

     [Footnote 5:  Other citations given by Bergaigne in
     connection with this point are all of the simile class.  Only
     as All-god is Indra the sun.]

     [Footnote 6:  i. 51. 4:  “After slaying Vritra, thou did’st
     make the sun climb in the sky.”]

     [Footnote 7:  [=A]ditya, only vii. 85. 4; V[=a]l. 4. 7.  For
     other references, see Perry (loc. cit.).]

     [Footnote 8:  Bergaigne, ii. 160. 187.]

     [Footnote 9:  Indra finds and begets Agni, iii. 31. 25.]

     [Footnote 10:  Unless the Python be, rather, the Demon of
     Putrefaction, as in Iranian belief.]

     [Footnote 11:  Demons of every sort oppose Indra; Vala,
     Vritra, the ‘holding’ snake (ahi=[Greek:  echis]), Cushna
     (’drought’), etc.]

[Footnote 12:  So he finds and directs the sun and causes it to shine, as explained above (viii. 3. 6; iii. 44. 4; i. 56. 4; iii. 30. 12).  He is praised with Vishnu (vi.69) in one hymn, as distinct from him.]

[Footnote 13:  Bollensen would see an allusion to idols in i. 145. 4-5 (to Agni), but this is very doubtful (ZDMG. xlvii. p. 586).  Agni, however, is on a par with Indra, so that the exception would have no significance.  See Kaegi, Rig Veda, note 79a.]

     [Footnote 14:  Or ‘pluck with beaks,’ as Mueller translates,
     SBE. xxxii. p. 373.]

[Footnote 15:  “Bore them” (gave an udder).  In v. 52. 16 Rudra is father and Pricni, mother.  Compare viii. 94. 1:  “The cow ... the mother of the Maruts, sends milk (rain).”  In x. 78. 6 the Maruts are sons of Sindhu (Indus).]

     [Footnote 16:  I.e., die.]

     [Footnote 17:  The number is not twenty-seven, as Muir
     accidentally states, OST. v. p. 147.]

     [Footnote 18:  v. 58. 4, 5; I. 88. 1; 88. 5; v. 54. 11; viii.
     7. 25; i. 166. 10; i. 39. 1; 64. 2-8; v. 54. 6; i. 85. 8;
     viii. 7. 34; v. 59. 2.]

     [Footnote 19:  He carries lightnings and medicines together
     in vii. 46. 3.]

     [Footnote 20:  Civa is later identified with Rudra.  For the
     latter in RV. compare i. 43; 114, 1-5, 10; ii. 33. 2-13.]

     [Footnote 21:  vii. 47, and x. 75.]

     [Footnote 22:  vii. 103.]

     [Footnote 23:  Akhkhala is like Latin eccere shout of joy
     and wonder(Am.J.  Phil. XIV. p. 11).]

     [Footnote 24:  Literally, ‘that has stood over-night,’ i.e.,
     fermented.]