[Footnote 44: Bhágam bhakshi! Compare baksheesh. The word as 'god' is both Avestan, bagha, and Slavic, bogu (also meaning 'rich'). It may be an epithet of other gods also, and here it means only luck.]
[Footnote 45: Literally 'possessed of bhaga,' i.e., wealth.]
[Footnote 46: May Bhaga be bhágav[=a]n, i.e., a true bhaga-holder. Here and below a pun on the name (as above).]
[Footnote 47: Mythical being, possibly the sun-horse.
According to Pischel a real earthly racer.]
[Footnote 48: I.22.17, etc; 154 ff.; VII. too.]
[Footnote 49: VII. 100. 5-6. Vishnu (may be the epithet of
Indra in I.61.7) means winner (?),]
[Footnote 50: VI. 69; VII. 99. But Vishnu is ordered about
by Indra (IV. 18. 11; VIII. 89. 12).]
[Footnote 51: I.154. 5. In II. 1. 3, Vishnu is one with Fire
(Agni).]
[Footnote 52: Thus, for example, Vishnu in the Hindu trinity, the separate worship of the sun in modern sects, and in the cult of the hill-men.]
[Footnote 53: X. 149.]