Indra depends on the sacrificial _soma_ to accomplish his great works. The gods first got power through the sacrificial fire and _soma_.[56] That images of the gods were supposed to be powerful may be inferred from the late verses, "who buys this Indra," etc. (above), but allusions to idolatry are elsewhere extremely doubtful.[57] * * * * * FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: Compare T[=a]itt. S. VII. 4.2.1. The gods win immortality by means of 'sacrifice' in this later priest-ridden period.] [Footnote 2: Ludwig (IV. p. 134) wrongly understands a hell here.] [Footnote 3: 'Yama's seat' is here what it is in the epic, not a chapel (Pischel), but a home.] [Footnote 4: This may mean 'to Yama (and) to death.' In the Atharva Veda, V. 24. 13-14, it is said that Death is the lord of men; Yama, of the Manes.] [Footnote 5: It is here said, also, that the 'Gandharva in the waters and the water-woman' are the ties of consanguinity between Yama and Yam[=i], which means, apparently, that their parents were Moon and Water; a late idea, as in viii. 48. 13 (unique).] [Footnote 6: The passage, X. 17, 1-2, is perhaps meant as a riddle, as Bloomfield suggests (JAOS. XV. p. 172). At any rate, it is still a dubious passage. Compare Hillebrandt, _Vedische Mythologie_, I. p. 503.] [Footnote 7: Cited by Scherman, _Visionslitteratur_, p. 147.] [Footnote 8: Possibly, 'streams.'] [Footnote 9: AV. XVIII. 3. 13.] [Footnote 10: Compare AV. VI. 88. 2: "King Varuna and God Brihaspati," where both are gods.] [Footnote 11: [Greek: Kerberos](=Çabala)=_Ç[=a]rvara_. Saram[=a] is storm or dawn, or something else that means 'runner.'] [Footnote 12: Here the fiend is expelled by a four-eyed dog or a white one which has yellow ears. See the _Sacred Books of the East_, IV. p. IXXXVII.] [Footnote 13: Scherman proposes an easy solution, namely to cut the description in two, and make only part of it refer to the dogs! (_loc. cit_. p. 130).] [Footnote 14: The dogs may be meant in I. 29. 3, but compare II. 31. 5. Doubtful is I. 66. 8, according to Bergaigne, applied to Yama as fire.] [Footnote 15: _India_, p. 224.] [Footnote 17: Barth, p. 23, cites I. 123. 6; X. 107. 2; 82. 2, to prove that stars are souls of dead men. These passages do not prove the point, but it may be inferred from X. 68. 11. Later on it is a received belief. A moon-heaven is found only in VIII. 48.] [Footnote 18: Especially with Ymir in Scandinavian mythology.] [Footnote 19: _Visionslitteratur_, 1892.] [Footnote 20: _Henotheism in the Rig Veda_, p. 81.]