38. Agni, whence Ignis, in Latin.
39. See Talboys Wheeler, "History of India."
40. Müller's Ancient Sanskrit Literature, page 569. He adds the following remarks: "There is nothing to prove that this hymn is of a particularly ancient date. On the contrary, there are expressions in it which seem to belong to a later age. But even if we assign the lowest possible date to this and similar hymns certain it is that they existed during the Mantra period, and before the composition of the Brâhmanas. For, to spite of all the indications of a modern date, I see no possibility how we could account for the allusions to it which occur in the Brâhmanas, or for its presence in the Sanhitâs, unless we admit that this poem formed part of the final collection of the Rig-veda-Sanhitâ, the work of the Mantra period."
41. Max Müller translates "breathed, breathless by itself; other than it nothing since has been."
42. Max Müller says, "Love fell upon it."
43. Müller, Sanskrit Lit., p. 546.
44. Müller, Sanskrit Lit., p. 552.
45. Ibid., p. 553.
46. That heat was "a form of motion" was thus early discovered.
47. It is the opinion of Maine ("Ancient Law") and other eminent scholars, that this code was never fully accepted or enforced in India, and remained always an ideal of the perfect Brahmanic state.