[Footnote 84: viii. 41. 2, 7, 8. So Varuna gives soma, rain. As a rain-god he surpasses Dyaus, who, ultimately, is also a rain-god (above), as in Greece.]
[Footnote 85: Compare Çat. Br. V. 2.5.17, "whatever is dark
is Varuna's.">[
[Footnote 86: In II. 38. 8 varuna means 'fish,' and 'water
in I.184. 3.]
[Footnote 87: V. 62. I, 8; 64.7; 61. 5; 65. 2; 67. 2; 69.1;
VI. 51.1; 67. 5. In VIII. 47.11 the [=A]dityas are
themselves spies.]
[Footnote 88: Introduction to Grassmann, II. 27; VI. 42.
Lex. s. v.]
[Footnote 89: Religions of India, p. 17.]
[Footnote 90: The Rik knows, also, a Diti, but merely as antithesls to Aditi—the 'confined and unconfined.' Aditi is prayed to (for protection and to remove sin) in sporadic verses of several hymns addressed to other gods, but she has no hymn.]
[Footnote 91: Müller (loc. cit., below) thinks that the
'sons of Aditi' were first eight and were then reduced to
seven, in which opinion as in his whole interpretation of
Aditi as a primitive dawn-infinity we regret that we cannot
agree with him.]
[Footnote 92: See Hillebrandt, Die Göttin Aditi; and
Müller, SBE, xxxii., p. 241, 252.]
[Footnote 93: That is to say, if one believe that the 'primitive Aryans' were inoculated with Zoroaster's teaching. This is the sort of Varuna that Koth believes to have existed among the aboriginal Aryan tribes (above, p. 13, note 2).]