13.] [Footnote 25 3: IX.63.

8-9; 5.9.Soma is identified with lightning in ix.47.

3.] [Footnote 26: _Hukhratus, verethrajao, hvaresa_.] [Footnote 27: Or: wise.] [Footnote 28 3: Or: strength.

Above, 'shared riches,' perhaps, for 'got happiness.'] [Footnote 29: Or: thine, indeed, are the laws of King Varuna.] [Footnote 30: Or: brilliant and beloved as Mitra (Mitra means friend); Aryaman is translated 'bosom-friend'-- both are [=A]dityas.] [Footnote 31: Or: an thou willest for us to live we shall not die.] [Footnote 32: Or: lordly plant, but not the moon.] [Footnote 33: Some unessential verses in the above metre are here omitted.] [Footnote 34: Or: shining.] [Footnote 35: The same ideas are prominent in viii.

48, where Soma is invoked as '_soma_ that has been drunk,' _i.e.,_ the juice of the ('three days fermented') plant.] [Footnote 36: In the fourth book, iv.27.3.On this myth, with its reasonable explanation as deduced from the ritual, see Bloomfield, JAOS.xvi.I ff.