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Lay Morals.

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2 Kings, v, 18.

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One of the sections of the epic Mahabharata is called “Go-Harran”, which signifies “cattle harrying”.

[47] Like the giants and demons of Teutonic mythology, who fought with the gods in the Last Battle.

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The deified poets and sages. See Chapter VIII.

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Adolf Kaegi says: “Also Vadha or Vadhar”, which he compares with German, Wetter; O.H. German, Wetar: Anglo-Saxon, Weder; English, Weather. The original word signifying the sudden change in atmospheric conditions caused by the thunderstorm was ultimately applied to all states of the air.

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Roy's translation of Mahabharata.

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Like the giants and demons of Teutonic mythology, who fought with the gods in the Last Battle.

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Like the giants and demons of Teutonic mythology, who fought with the gods in the Last Battle.

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The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, by T. G. Pinches, LL.D.

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Cosmology of Rigveda, Wallis.

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Religion of the Ancient Egyptians, Professor A. Wiedemann, p. 137.

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Rigveda, iv, 34. 9.

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Cosmology of Rigveda, Wallis.

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A History of Sanskrit Literature, pp. 106, 107.

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Rigveda, ii, 53; iii, 55.

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Teutonic Myth and Legend, pp. 35-9.

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The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, T. G. Pinches, LL.D.

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An old Germanic name of Odin related to Divus. Odin's descendants were the “Tivar”. (Pronounce Dyaus as one syllable rhiming with mouse.)

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Rigveda, iv, 18. Wilson, vol. iii, p. 153.

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The Laws of Manu, ix, 8; p. 329. (Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxv.)

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Adi Parva, sect. lxxiv of Mahabharata, Roy's translation.

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See Egyptian Myth and Legend.

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The Satapatha Brahmana, translated by Professor J. Eggeling, Part I, pp. 369, 373. (Sacred Books of the East, vol. xii.)

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Arrowsmith's translation.

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Teutonic Myth and Legend, p. 173.

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Vana Parva section of Mahăbhărata, sect. xliii, Roy's translation.

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Rigveda, v, 2.

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Rigveda, i, 95.

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Rigveda, iv, 6. 8.

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Rigveda, iii, 23. 3.

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Rigveda, i, 95. 4, and note, Oldenberg's Vedic Hymns (Sacred Books of the East, vol. xlvi).

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Teutonic Myth and Legend, pp. 16 and 187-9.

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See Chapter X.

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Oldenberg, Rigveda, iii, 1.

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A demi-god.

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Vedic Hymns, trans. by Oldenberg. (Sacred Books of the East, vol. xlvi.)

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Rigveda, i, 13 and i, 26 (Oldenberg).

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Art. “Aryan Religion”, Hastings' Ency. Rel. and Ethics.

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The air of life = the spirit.

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Muir's Original Sanscrit Texts, v, 58, ff.

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Professor Macdonell's A History of Sanskrit Literature.

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Indian Wisdom, Sir Monier Williams.

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The Rigveda, by Professor E. Vernon Arnold, p. 16 (Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore).

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The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, by Dr. T. G. Pinches, p. 68.

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Frazer's “Golden Bough” (Adonis, Attis, Osiris, p. 255, n., third edition).

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Professor H. W. Hogg, in Professor Moulton's Early Religious Poetry of Persia, p. 37.

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“The Golden Bough” (Spirits of the Corn and Wild, vol. ii, p. 10).

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Rigveda, ii, 38.

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Indian Wisdom, p. 20.

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Indian Wisdom, Sir Monier Williams.

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Indian Wisdom, Sir Monier Williams.

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Muir's Original Sanskrit Texts, v, 130.

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See Teutonic Myth and Legend.

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Kaegi's Rigveda, Arrowsmith's translation. This was apparently a rain charm; its humour was of the unconscious order, of course.

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Iliad, xxiii, 75.

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Muir, Original Sanskrit Texts, v. 302.

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Rigveda, x. 51 (Arnold's translation).

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A History of Sanskrit Literature, p. 117.

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As was also Manu of a different or later cult.

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From Indian Wisdom.

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A History of Sanskrit Literature, p. 117.

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Early Religious Poetry of Persia, Professor J. H. Moulton, p. 42.

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A History of Sanskrit Literature, Professor Macdonell, p. 68.

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Rigveda, x, 10.

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From Indian Wisdom.

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Satapatha Brahmana, translated by Professor Eggeling, Part IV, 1897, p. 371 (Sacred Books of the East).

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From Adi Parva section of Mahabharata.

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Saraswati's rival.