[Footnote 38: Contrast I. 42, and X. 26 (with 1. 138. 1). In the first hymn P[=u]shan leads the way and drives away danger, wolves, thieves, and helps to booty and pasturage. In the last he is a war-god, who helps in battle, a 'far-ruler,' embracing the thoughts of all (as in III. 62. 9).] [Footnote 39: For the traits just cited compare IV. 57. 7; VI. 17. 11; 48. 15; 53; 55; 56. I-3; 57. 3-4; 58. 2-4; II. 40; X. 17. 3 ff.; 26. 3-8; I. 23. 14; all of I. 42, and 138; VIII. 4. 15-18; III. 57. 2. In X. 17. 4, Savitar, too, guides the souls of the dead.] [Footnote 40: That is to say, one hymn is addressed to Bhaga with various other gods, VII. 41. Here he seems to be personified good-luck ("of whom even the king says,' I would have thee,'" vs. 2). In Ihe Br[=a]hmanas 'Bhaga is blind,' which applies better to Fortune than to the Sun.] [Footnote 41: The hymn is sung before setting out on a forray for cattle. Let one observe how unsupported is the assumption of the ritualists as applied to this hymn, that it must have been "composed for rubrication."] [Footnote 42: After Muir, V. p. 178. The clouds and cattle are both called _gàs_ 'wanderers,' which helped in the poetic identification of the two.] [Footnote 43: Compare IX. 97. 55, "Thou art Bhaga, giver of gifts."] [Footnote 44: _Bhágam bhakshi_! Compare baksheesh. The word as 'god' is both Avestan, _bagha_, and Slavic, _bogu_ (also meaning 'rich'). It may be an epithet of other gods also, and here it means only luck.] [Footnote 45: Literally 'possessed of _bhaga,' i.e_., wealth.] [Footnote 46: May Bhaga be _bhágav[=a]n, i.e_., a true _bhaga_-holder. Here and below a pun on the name (as above).] [Footnote 47: Mythical being, possibly the sun-horse. According to Pischel a real earthly racer.] [Footnote 48: I.22.17, etc; 154 ff.; VII. too.] [Footnote 49: VII. 100. 5-6. Vishnu (may be the epithet of Indra in I.61.7) means winner (?),] [Footnote 50: VI. 69; VII. 99. But Vishnu is ordered about by Indra (IV. 18. 11; VIII. 89. 12).] [Footnote 51: I.154. 5. In II. 1. 3, Vishnu is one with Fire (Agni).] [Footnote 52: Thus, for example, Vishnu in the Hindu trinity, the separate worship of the sun in modern sects, and in the cult of the hill-men.] [Footnote 53: X. 149.] [Footnote 54: II.41.20.] [Footnote 55: vi.70.] [Footnote 56: I.160.4; IV. 56.1-3; VII. 53. 2.] [Footnote 57: I. 185. 8. _(J[=a]spati)._ The expiatory power of the hymn occurs again in I. 159.] [Footnote 58: I. 185. 1.] [Footnote 59: IV. 56. 7.] [Footnote 60: I. 22. 15.] [Footnote 61: X. 18. 10 (or: "like a wool-soft maiden").]