6.] [Footnote 27: vii.

102.] [Footnote 28: Compare Buehler, _Orient and Occident_, I.p.
222.] [Footnote 29: This hymn is another of those that contradict the first assumption of the ritualists.

From internal evidence it is not likely that it was made for baksheesh.] [Footnote 30: _[A]suras, pit[=a] nas_.] [Footnote 31: Literally, 'with _ghee_'; the rain is like the _ghee_, or sacrificial oil (melted butter).] [Footnote 32: Some suppose even Indra to be one with the Avestan _A[.n]dra_, a demon, which is possible.] [Footnote 33: Otherwise it is the 'bonds of sin' which are broken or loosed, as in the last verse of the first Varuna hymn, translated above.

But the two views may be of equal antiquity (above, p.

69, note).