These _soma_-drops, let out like steeds (attached) to a car, as they purify themselves, attain all desirable things." According to IX.97.

41^2 and _ib._ 37.
4 (and other like passages, too lightly explained, p.

387, by Hillebrandt), it is _soma_ that "produced the light in the sun" and "makes the sun rise," statements incompatible with the (lunar) Soma's functions, but quite in accordance with the magic power which the poets attribute to the divine drink.

Soma is 'king over treasure.' Soma is brought by the eagle that all may "see light" (IX.48.

3-4).
He traverses the sky, and guards order--but not necessarily is he here the moon, for _soma_, the drink, as a "galloping steed," "a brilliant steer," a "stream of pressed _soma_," "a dear sweet," "a helper of gods," is here poured forth; after him "flow great water-floods"; and he "purifies himself in the sieve, he the supporter, holder of the sky"; he "shines with the sun," "roars," and "looks like Mitra"; being here both "the intoxicating draught," and at the same time "the giver of kine, giver of men, giver of horses, giver of strength, the soul of sacrifice" (IX.