[129] Grassman translates, "Zugleich mit goldenem Geräth;" Ludwig, "Zusammt mit goldenem Zierrath;" Zimmer, "Und eine Manâ gold." The Petersburg Dictionary explains manâ by "ein bestimmtes Geräth oder Gewicht" (Gold).
[130] According to Dr. Haupt, Die Sumerisch-akkadische Sprache, p. 272, mana is an Akkadian word.
[131] According to the weights of the lions and ducks preserved in the British Museum, an Assyrian mina was = 7747 grains. The same difference is still preserved to the present day, as the man of Shiraz and Bagdâd is just double that of Tabraz and Bushir, the average of the former being 14.0 and that of the latter only 6.985. See Cunningham, "Journal of the Asiatic Society," Calcutta, 1881, p. 163.
[132] Preface to the fourth volume of my edition of the Rig-Veda, p. li.
[133] Vaisvadevam on the full-moon of Phalguna, Varunapraghâsâh on the full-moon of Ashâdha, Sâkamedhâh on the full-moon of Krittikâ, see Boehtlingk, Dictionary, s. v.
[134] See Vishnu-smriti, ed. Jolly LIX. 4; Ãryabhata, Introduction.
[135] See Preface to vol. iv. of Rig-Veda, p. li. (1862).
[136] See Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, pp. 352-357.
[137] L. c. p. lxx.
[138] See Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, p. xlvii.