Br_.
VIII.28.Here _brahma_ is wind, around which die five divinities--lightning in rain, rain in moon, moon in sun, sun in fire, fire in wind--and they are reborn in reverse order.

The 'dying' is used as a curse.

The king shall say, 'When fire dies in wind then may my foe die,' and he will die; so when any of the other gods dies around _brahma_.] [Footnote 21: Compare sterben, starve.] [Footnote 22: The androgynous creator of the Br[=a]hmanas.] [Footnote 23: We cannot, however, quite agree with Whitney who, _loc.

cit._ p.

92, and Journal, xiii, p.