[Footnote 44: Barth, Vedic Religions, p. 23; ib., the
narrow 'house of clay,' RV. VII. 89. 1.]
[Footnote 45: I. 24. 1; I. 125.6; VII. 56.24; cited by
Müller, Chips, I. p. 45.]
[Footnote 46: IX. 113. 7 ff.]
[Footnote 47: Avar[=o]dhana[.m] divás, 'enclosure of the
sky.']
[Footnote 48: Literally, 'where custom' (obtains), i.e.,
where the old usages still hold.]
[Footnote 49: The last words are to be understood as of sensual pleasures (Muir, loc. cit. p. 307, notes 462, 463).]
[Footnote 50: RV. II. 29. 6; VII. 104. 3, 17; IV. 5. 5; IX. 73. 8. Compare Mulr, loc. cit. pp. 311-312; and Zimmer, loc. cit. pp. 408, 418. Yama's 'hero-holding abode' is not a hell, as Ludwig thinks, but, as usual, the top vault of heaven.]
[Footnote 51: loc. cit. p. 123.]
[Footnote 52: X. 154. 2; 107. 2. Compare the mad ascetic, múni, VIII. 17. 14.]
[Footnote 53: X. 117. This is clearly seen in the seventh verse, where is praised the 'Brahman who talks,' i.e., can speak in behalf of the giver to the gods (compare verse three).]