[Footnote 24: Doubtful.]
[Footnote 25: The Spirit, later of evil spirits, demons (as above, the asurah[=á]). Compare Ahura.]
[Footnote 26: A numerical conception not paralleled in the Rig Veda, though mountains are called protuberances ('elevations') in other places.]
[Footnote 27: The last stanza is in the metre of the first;
two more follow without significant additions.]
[Footnote 28: The texts are translated by Muir, OST, V. p.
171 ff.]
[Footnote 29: La Religion Védique, II. p. 428. Compare
Hillebrandt, Soma p. 456.]
[Footnote 30: I. 138. 4.]
[Footnote 31: VI. 56. 1.]
[Footnote 32: In I. 23. 13-15 P[=u]shan is said to bring king (soma), "whom he found like a lost herd of cattle." The fragment is late if, as is probable, the 'six' of vs. 15 are the six seasons. Compare VI. 54. 5, "may P[=u]shan go after our kine.">[
[Footnote 33: Compare VI. 54.]