28/29 43.] [Footnote 27: When Aryan deities are decadent, Trita, Mitra, etc.] [Footnote 28: Spiegel holds that the whole idea of future punishment is derived from Persia (_Eranische Altherthumskunde_, I.p. 458), but his point of view is naturally prejudiced. The allusion to the supposed Babylonian coin, _man[=a]_, in RV.VIII.78.2, would indicate that the relation with Babylon is one of trade, as with Aegypt. The account of the flood may be drawn thence, so may the story of Deucalion, but both Hindu and Hellenic versions may be as native as is that of the American redskins.] [Footnote 29: IV.17. |