[Footnote 91: Müller (_loc. cit._, below) thinks that the 'sons of Aditi' were first eight and were then reduced to seven, in which opinion as in his whole interpretation of Aditi as a primitive dawn-infinity we regret that we cannot agree with him.]
[Footnote 92: See Hillebrandt, _Die Göttin Aditi_; and Müller, SBE, xxxii., p. 241, 252.]
[Footnote 93: That is to say, if one believe that the 'primitive Aryans' were inoculated with Zoroaster's teaching. This is the sort of Varuna that Koth believes to have existed among the aboriginal Aryan tribes (above, p. 13, note 2).]
[Footnote 97: The priest to whom, and to whose family, is ascribed the seventh book.]
[Footnote 99: Much theosophy, and even history (!), has been read into II. 15, and IV. 30, where poets speak of Indra slaying Dawn; but there is nothing remarkable in these passages. Poetry is not creed. The monsoon (here Indra) does away with dawns for a time, and that is what the poet says in his own way.]
[Footnote 100: Transferred by Roth from the penultimate position where it stands in the original. Dawn here pays Night for the latter's malutinal withdrawing by withdrawing herself. Strictly speaking, the Dawn is, of course, the sunset light conceived of as identical with that preceding the sunrise ([Greek: usas, hêôs], 'east' as 'glow').]
[Footnote 101: Late as seems this hymn to be, it is interesting in revealing the fact that wolves (not tigers or panthers) are the poet's most dreaded foes of night. It must, therefore have been composed in the northlands, where wolves are the herdsman's worst enemies.]
[Footnote 102: Myriantheus, _Die Açvins_; Muir, OST. v. p.234; Bergaigne, _Religion Védique,_ II. p. 431; Müller, _Lectures_, 2d series, p. 508; Weber, _Ind. St_. v. p. 234. S[=a]yana on I. 180. 2, interprets the 'sister of the Açvins' as Dawn.]
[Footnote 103: Muir, _loc. cit_. Weber regards them as the (stars) Gemini.]
[Footnote 104: Weber, however, thinks that Dawn and Açvins are equally old divinities, the oldest Hindu divinities in his estimation.]
[Footnote 105: In the Epic (see below) they are called the lowest caste of gods (Ç[=u]dras).]
[Footnote 107: I. 181. 4 (Roth, ZDMG. IV. 425).]
[Footnote 108: T[=a]itt. S. VII. 2. 7. 2; Muir, _loc. cit_. p. 235.]