Compare, also, the refrain, viii.

39-42.

For X.124, see below.] [Footnote 73: Compare Hillebrandt's Varuna and Mitra, p.

5; and see our essay on the Holy Numbers of the Rig Veda (in the _Oriental Studies_).] [Footnote 74: Varuna's forgiving of sins may be explained as a washing out of sin, just as fire burns it out, and so loosens therewith the imagined bond, V.2.7.

Thus, quite apart from Varuna in a hymn addressed to the 'Waters,' is found the prayer, "O waters, carry off whatever sin is in me ...