[9] E.g. AB. VII. xxxi., VIII. xii. Cf. BA. Up. I. iv. 11-13.
[10] AB. VIII. xiv. (Keith's translation).
[11] Cf. Sāyaṇa on RV. I. xciii. 5.
[12] Cf. Ved. Studien, ii. p. 31, RV. I. xxxiv. 2.
[13] Cf. Ved. Studien, i. p. 14 ff.
[14] A later and distorted version of this myth appears in AB. VI. xv.
[15] E.g. MS. 1. iv. 14, ŚB. I. i. 1, 2, 13, TB. I. ii. 5, 1, AB. I. xv., KB. IV. ii., XVIII. viii., xiv.
[16] ŚB. I. ix. 3, 8-11. Cf. the three steps of the Amesha-spentas from the earth to the sun, imitated in the Avestic ritual (Avesta, transl. Darmesteter, I. 401).
[17] RV. VI. xvii. 11, VIII. lxvi. 10; the myth in RV. I. lxi. 7, VIII. lxvi. 10, and TS. VI. ii. 4, 2-3 is expanded from this original idea. Cf. Macdonell, Vedic Myth., p. 41.