[Footnote 166: This explanation is considered altogether inadequate by many scholars. It is, of course, not altogether a question of learning, but also one of judgment.--AM. PUBS.] [Footnote 167: "The Sacred Books of the East," vol. i. p. 249: "The first half is the earth, the second half the heaven, their uniting the rain, the uniter Par_g_anya." And so it is when it (Par_g_anya) rains thus strongly--without ceasing, day and night together--then they say also, "Heaven and earth have come together."--From the Aitareya-Âra_n_yaka, III. 2, 2.--A. W.] [Footnote 168: Bastian, Heilige Sage der Polynesier, p. 36.] [Footnote 169: Bergaigne, "La Religion Védique," p. 240.] [Footnote 170: Ait. Br. IV. 27; Muir, iv. p. 23.] [Footnote 171: See Muir, iv. p. 24.] [Footnote 172: Homer, Hymn xxx. 17.] [Footnote 173: Χαἱρε θεῶν μἡτηρ, ἁλοχ' Ονρανον ἁστερὁεντος.] [Footnote 174: Euripides, Chrysippus, fragm. 6 (edit. Didot, p. 824): Γαῖα μεγἱστη καὶ Διὸς αὶθἡρ, ό μὲν ὰνθρὡπων καὶ θεῶν γενἑτωρ, ἡ δ' ὑγροβόλους σταγόνας νοτἱους παραδεξαμἑνη τἱκτει θνατοὑς, τἱκτει δὲ βορὰν, φῦλἁ τε θηρῶν, ὁθεν οὺκ ἁδἱκως μἡτηρ πἁντων νενόμισται.] [Footnote 175: Dionysius Halic., vol. v. p. 355; Muir, v. p. 27.] [Footnote 176: Rig-Veda I. 22, 15.] [Footnote 177: See "Lectures on the Science of Language," vol. ii. p. 468.] [Footnote 178: Rig-Veda I. 160, 4.] [Footnote 179: L. c. IV. 56, 3.] [Footnote 180: L. c. VIII. 6, 5.] [Footnote 181: L. c. III. 30, 5.] [Footnote 182: L. c. III. 34, 8.] [Footnote 183: L. c. III. 34, 8.] [Footnote 184: L. c. VIII. 36, 4.] [Footnote 185: L. c. X. 54, 3.] [Footnote 186: Cf. IV. 17, 4, where Dyaus is the father of Indra; see however Muir, iv. 31, note.] [Footnote 187: Rig-Veda VI. 30, 1.] [Footnote 188: L. c. I. 131, 1.] [Footnote 189: L. c. IV. 17, 2.] [Footnote 190: L. c. II. 40, 1.] [Footnote 191: L. c. X. 121, 9.] [Footnote 192: L. c. X. 190, 3.] [Footnote 193: L. c. X. 81, 2.] [Footnote 194: Rig-Veda VI. 70, 1.] [Footnote 195: Rig-Veda X. 75. See Hibbert Lectures, Lect. iv.] [Footnote 196: Vivasvat is a name of the sun, and the seat or home of Vivasvat can hardly be anything but the earth, as the home of the sun, or, in a more special sense, the place where a sacrifice is offered.]