64/158 Again, the Vedic myth is retold, recounting the rape of _soma_ by the metrical equivalent of fire (_T[=a]itt. 10). Another tale takes up anew the old story of Cupid and Psyche (Pur[=u]ravas and Urvac[=i]); and another that of the Hindu Prometheus story, wherein M[=a]taricvan fetches fire from heaven, and gives it to mortals (_T[=a]itt. |