[Footnote 31: This can hardly mean 'put out on the river' as has been suggested as an explanation of the corpse 'thrown aside' in accordance with the earlier text, AV. xviii. 2. 34 (_paropta_), where the dead are 'buried, thrown aside, burned, or set out.'] [Footnote 32: It is assumed in XII. 364. 2 that "leaves and air" are food enough for a great saint. Compare below the actual asceticism of modern devotees.] [Footnote 33: III. 25. 14: _saptar[s.]ayas ... divi viprabh[=a]nti_. Compare _ib._ 261. 13, and the apocalypse in VII. 192. 52 ff., where Drona's soul ascends to heaven, a burning fire like a sun; In sharp contrast to the older 'thumbkin' soul which Yama receives and carries off in the tale of Satyavant. Compare also Arundhati in I. 233. 29.] [Footnote 34: Described, as above, as a place of singers and dancers, where are the Vedic gods and sages, but no sinners or cowards (III. 42. 34 ff.).] [Footnote 35: From another point of view the stars are of interest. They are favorable or unfavorable, sentient, kind, or cruel; influential in man's fate. Compare III. 200. 84, 85, where the sun is included with the _grahas_ (planets) which influence men, and ib. 209. 21, _tulyanak[.s]atrama[.n]gala_.] [Footnote 36: Other of Indra's spirits are the singers, Gandharvas and Apsarasas; also the horse-headed Kinnaras and C[=a]ranas, who, too, are singers; while later the Vidy[=a]dharas belong both to Indra and to Çiva. In modern times the South Indian Sittars, 'saints,' take their name from the Siddhas.] [Footnote 37: In _d[=a]nnavar[s.]i_ there is apparently the same sort of compound as in _devar[s.]i_ and _brahmar[s.]i_, all associated with the _siddhas_ in III. 169. 23. But possibly 'demons and seers' may be meant.] [Footnote 38: III. 37. 32-35 (_prapadye viçvedev[=a]n!_).] [Footnote 39: Weber finds in the Asuras' artisan, Asura Maya, a reminiscence of Ptolemaios. He is celebrated in I. 228. 39, and II. 1, and is the generai leader of the _d[=a]navas_, demons, perhaps originally a folk-name of enemies.] [Footnote 40: See below. The formal division is, _d[=a]iva, hatha, karma, i.e._, man's fate depends on gods, Fate, and his own acts; although _hatha_, Fate, is often implied in _d[=a]iva_, 'the divine power.' But they are separated, for example, in iii. 183. 86.] [Footnote 41: Compare the tales and xii. 148. 9, _sat[=i]_ (suttee). In regard to the horse-sacrifice, compare Yama's law as expounded to Gautama: "The acts by which one gains bliss hereafter are austerities, purity, truth, worship of parents, and the horse-sacrifice." xii 129. 9, 10.]