The clouds and cattle are both called _gas_ 'wanderers,' which helped in the poetic identification of the two.] [Footnote 43: Compare IX.97.55, "Thou art Bhaga, giver of gifts."] [Footnote 44: _Bhagam bhakshi_! Compare baksheesh.

The word as 'god' is both Avestan, _bagha_, and Slavic, _bogu_ (also meaning 'rich').

It may be an epithet of other gods also, and here it means only luck.] [Footnote 45: Literally 'possessed of _bhaga,' i.e_., wealth.] [Footnote 46: May Bhaga be _bhagav[=a]n, i.e_., a true _bhaga_-holder.

Here and below a pun on the name (as above).] [Footnote 47: Mythical being, possibly the sun-horse.
According to Pischel a real earthly racer.] [Footnote 48: I.22.17, etc; 154 ff.; VII.

too.] [Footnote 49: VII.100.