[267] Aruṇaḥ suparṇaḥ; Ib. x. 55, 6.
[268] Vayo na sîdann adhi barhishi priye; Ib. i. 85, 7.
[269] Manmasâdhano veḥ; Ib. i. 96, 6.
[270] Â te suparṇâ aminantaṅ evâiḥ kṛishṇo nonâva vṛishabho yadîdam; Ib. i. 79, 2.
[271] Vanâni vibhyo nakir asya tâni vratâ devasya savitar minanti; Ib. ii. 38, 7.
[272] Ut te vayaçćid vasater apaptan; Ib. i. 124, 12.—In the twenty-third story of the second book of Afanassieff, when the beautiful girl Helen, another form of the aurora, is at the king's ball, she throws bones with one hand, when birds spring up, and water with the other, when gardens and fountains spring up.
[273] Abhi no devîr avasâ mahaḥ çarmaṇâ nṛipatnîḥ aćhinnapatrâḥ saćantâm; Ṛigv. i. 22, 11.—If the goddesses are here the same as the nymphs, they may be the same as the clouds, and I should refer to this passage, the legend of the Râmâyaṇam (v. 56), according to which the lofty mountains were once winged (the clouds) and wandered about the earth at pleasure; Indras, with his thunderbolt, cut their wings, and they fell down.
[274] Dvâ suparṇâ sayuǵâ sakhâyâ samânaṁ vṛiksham pari shasvaǵâte tayor anyaḥ pippalaṁ svâdv atty anaçnann anyo abhi ćâkaçîtî—Yatrâ suparṇâ amṛitasya bhâgam animeshaṁ vidathâbhisvaranti; Ṛigv. i. 164, 20.—Perhaps we should compare to this legend the two birds Amru and Ćamru of the Khorda-Avesta, of which one makes the seeds of the three mythical trees fall, and the other scatters them about.
[275] Calcutta, 1851.
[276] i. 4305.