FOOTNOTES:

[113] Muir's Original Sanskrit Texts, v, 15.

[114] Professor E. Vernon Arnold's The Rigveda, p. 54.

[115] In the combat between Thor and the giant Hrungner, the thunder-hammer similarly cleaves a mass of flint hurled by the enemy.—Teutonic Myth and Legend.

[116] Mahabharata, Vana Parva section, pp. 679-80, Roy's trans.

[117] “Overwhelmed by misfortune” (Roy).

[118] Heaven, Earth, and the Underworld.

[119] Mahabharata.

[120] Asuras are sometimes called Rakshasas also.

[121] Pron. pe-shatch'as.