[Footnote 62: The lightning. In I. 31. 4, 10 "(Father) Fire makes Dyaus bellow" like "a bull" (v. 36. 5). Dyaus "roars" in vi. 72. 3. Nowhere else is he a thunderer.] [Footnote 63: 1. 24. 7-8. The change in metaphor is not unusual.] [Footnote 64: This word means either order or orders (law); literally the 'way' or 'course.'] [Footnote 65: 1. 24 (epitomized).] [Footnote 66: Perhaps better with Ludwig "of (thee) in anger, of (thee) incensed."] [Footnote 67: Or: "Being (himself) in the (heavenly) flood he knows the ships." (Ludwig.)] [Footnote 68: An intercalated month is meant (not the primitive 'twelve days').] [Footnote 69: Or 'very wise,' of mental strength.] [Footnote 70: VIII. 41. 7; VII. 82. 6 (Bergaigne); X. 132. 4.] [Footnote 71: Compare Bergaigne, _La Religion Védique_, iii. pp. 116-118.] [Footnote 72: The insistence on the holy seven, the 'secret names' of dawn, the confusion of Varuna with Trita. Compare, also, the refrain, viii. 39-42. For X. 124, see below.] [Footnote 73: Compare Hillebrandt's Varuna and Mitra, p. 5; and see our essay on the Holy Numbers of the Rig Veda (in the _Oriental Studies_).] [Footnote 74: Varuna's forgiving of sins may be explained as a washing out of sin, just as fire burns it out, and so loosens therewith the imagined bond, V. 2. 7. Thus, quite apart from Varuna in a hymn addressed to the 'Waters,' is found the prayer, "O waters, carry off whatever sin is in me ... and untruth," I. 23. 22.] [Footnote 75: But as in iv. 42, so in x. 124 he shares glory with Indra.] [Footnote 76: Later, Varuna's water-office is his only physical side. Compare [=A]it. [=A]r. II. I. 7. 7, 'water and Varuna, children of mind.' Compare with _v[=a]ri, oùrá_ = _v[=a]ra_, and _var[=i]_, an old word for rivers, _var[s.]_ (= _var_ + _s_), 'rain.' The etymology is very doubtful on account of the number of _var_-roots. Perhaps dew _(ersa)_ and rain first as 'coverer.' Even _var = vas_ 'shine,' has been suggested (ZDMG. XXII. 603).] [Footnote 77: The old comparison of _Varena cathrugaosha_ turns out to be "the town of Varna with four gates"!] [Footnote 78: In _India: What Can it Teach us_, pp. 197, 200, Müller tacitly recognizes in the physical Varuna only the 'starry' night-side.] [Footnote 79: _Loc. cit._, III. 119. Bergaigne admits Varuna as god of waters, but sees in him identity with Vritra a 'restrainer of waters.' He thinks the 'luminous side' of Varuna to be antique also (III. 117-119). Varuna's cord, according to Bergaigne, comes from 'tying up' the waters; 'night's fetters,' according to Hillebrandt.] [Footnote 80: _Loc. cit._, p. 13.]