17.] [Footnote 90: The Rik knows, also, a Diti, but merely as antithesls to Aditi--the 'confined and unconfined.' Aditi is prayed to (for protection and to remove sin) in sporadic verses of several hymns addressed to other gods, but she has no hymn.] [Footnote 91: Mueller (_loc.

cit._, below) thinks that the 'sons of Aditi' were first eight and were then reduced to seven, in which opinion as in his whole interpretation of Aditi as a primitive dawn-infinity we regret that we cannot agree with him.] [Footnote 92: See Hillebrandt, _Die Goettin Aditi_; and Mueller, SBE, xxxii., p.

241, 252.] [Footnote 93: That is to say, if one believe that the 'primitive Aryans' were inoculated with Zoroaster's teaching.

This is the sort of Varuna that Koth believes to have existed among the aboriginal Aryan tribes (above, p.
13, note 2).] [Footnote 94: VII.

77.] [Footnote 95: Clouds.] [Footnote 96: The sun.] [Footnote 97: The priest to whom, and to whose family, is ascribed the seventh book.] [Footnote 98: JAOS., XV.