[Footnote 13: Compare Kuhn, _Herabkunft des Feuers und des Göttertrankes_ (1859); Bergaigne, _La Religion Védique_, i. 148 ff.; Haug's _[=A]itareya Br[=a]hmana_, Introduction, p. 62; Whitney in _Jour. Am. Or. Soc_. III. 299; Muir, _Original Sanskrit Texts_, vol. V. p. 258 ff., where other literature is cited.] [Footnote 14: RV. X. 34. 1; IX. 98. 9; 82.3. The Vedic plant is unknown (not the _sarcostemma viminale_).] [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, _índu_ 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.] * * * * * CHAPTER VI. THE RIG VEDA (CONCLUDED).--YAMA AND OTHER GODS, VEDIC PANTHEISM, ESCHATOLOGY.