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14; all of I.42, and 138; VIII.4.

15-18; III.57.2.In X.17.4, Savitar, too, guides the souls of the dead.] [Footnote 40: That is to say, one hymn is addressed to Bhaga with various other gods, VII.41.Here he seems to be personified good-luck ("of whom even the king says,' I would have thee,'" vs.

2).

In Ihe Br[=a]hmanas 'Bhaga is blind,' which applies better to Fortune than to the Sun.] [Footnote 41: The hymn is sung before setting out on a forray for cattle.

Let one observe how unsupported is the assumption of the ritualists as applied to this hymn, that it must have been "composed for rubrication."] [Footnote 42: After Muir, V.p.178.


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