[Footnote 104: Weber, however, thinks that Dawn and Açvins are equally old divinities, the oldest Hindu divinities in his estimation.]
[Footnote 105: In the Epic (see below) they are called the lowest caste of gods (Ç[=u]dras).]
[Footnote 106: X. 17. 2; I. 46. 2.]
[Footnote 107: I. 181. 4 (Roth, ZDMG. IV. 425).]
[Footnote 108: T[=a]itt. S. VII. 2. 7. 2; Muir, loc. cit. p. 235.]
[Footnote 109: vii. 67. 2; viii. 5. 2; x. 39. 12; viii. 9. 17; i. 34. 10; x. 61. 4. Muir, loc. cit. 238-9. Compare ib. 234, 256.]
[Footnote 110: Muir, loc. cit. p. 237. RV. vi. 58. 4; x.
85. 9ff.]
[Footnote 111: They are compared to two ships, two birds,
etc.]
[Footnote 112: In Çat. Br. V. 5. 4. it to the Açvins a red-white goat is sacrificed, because 'Açvins are red-white.']
[Footnote 113: Perhaps best with Brannhofer, 'the savers' from nas as in nasjan (AG. p. 99).]