262.) Perhaps rain as _soma_ released by lightning as a hawk (Bloomfield).] [Footnote 16: See the passages cited in Muir, _loc.

cit_.] [Footnote 17: A complete account of _soma_ was given by the Vedic texts will be found in Hillebrandt's _Vedische Mythologie_, vol.I., where are described the different ways of fermenting the juice of the plant.] [Footnote 18: Although so interpreted by Hillebrandt, _loc.
cit._ p.312.The passage is found in RV.VI.44.

23.] [Footnote 19: _Loc.

cit._ pp.

340, 450.] [Footnote 20: Compare IX.79.5, where the same verb is used of striking, urging out the _soma_-juice, _r[=a]sa_.] [Footnote 21: Compare IX.32.2, where "Trita's maidens urge on the golden steed with the press-stones, _indu_ as a drink for Indra."] [Footnote 22: On account of the position and content of this hymn, Hillebrandt regards it as addressed to Soma-Brihaspati.] [Footnote 23: So the sun in I.163.9, II.