39/41 103.] [Footnote 23: _Akhkhala_ is like Latin _eccere_ shout of joy and wonder( _Am.J. 11).] [Footnote 24: Literally, 'that has stood over-night,' i.e., fermented.] [Footnote 25: To this hymn is added, in imitation of the laudations of generous benefactors, which are sometimes suffixed to an older hymn, words ascribing gifts to the frogs. Bergaigne regards the frogs as meteorological phenomena! It is from this hymn as a starting-point proceed the latter-day arguments of Jacobi, who would prove the 'period of the Rig Veda' to have begun about 3500 B.C. One might as well date Homer by an appeal to the Batrachomyomachia.] [Footnote 26: x.98. |