[1] Barth.
[2] Bergaigne, in his able treatise, La Religion Védique, insists earnestly on what he calls the "liturgical contamination of the myths." See vol. iii, p. 320.
[3] R. V., ix, 42, 4.
[4] R. V., ix, 97, 24.
[5] The religion of the Indo-European race, while still united, "recognized a supreme God; an organizing God; almighty, omniscient, moral.... This conception was a heritage of the past.... The supreme God was originally the God of heaven." So Darmesteter, Contemporary Review, October, 1879. Roth had previously written with much learning and acuteness to the same effect.
[6] Muir's Sanskrit Texts, v, 412.
[7] R. V., iii, 62, 10.
[8] The rites, says Haug, "must have existed from times immemorial."—Aitareya Brâhmana, pp. 7, 9.
[9] Weber, History of Indian Literature, p. 38.
[10] Max Müller, Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p. 389.