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[Footnote 3: La Religion Védique, ii. pp. 159, 161, 166, 187.]
[Footnote 4: The chief texts are ii. 30. 1; iv. 26. 1; vii. 98. 6; vii. 93.1, 4; x. 89. 2; x. 112. 3.]
[Footnote 5: Other citations given by Bergaigne in connection with this point are all of the simile class. Only as All-god is Indra the sun.]
[Footnote 6: i. 51.4: "After slaying Vritra, thou did'st make the sun climb in the sky.")
[Footnote 7: (=A]ditya, only vii. 85. 4; V[=a]l. 4.7. For other references, see Perry (loc. cit.).]
[Footnote 8: Bergaigne, ii. 160. 187.]
[Footnote 9: Indra finds and begets Agni, iii. 31. 25.]
[Footnote 10: Unless the Python be, rather, the Demon of Putrefaction, as in Iranian belief.]
[Footnote 11: Demons of every sort oppose Indra; Vala, Vritra, the 'holding' snake (áhř[Greek: echis]), Çushna ('drought'), etc.)
[Footnote 12: So he finds and directs the sun and causes it to shine, as explained above (viii. 3. 6; iii. 44. 4; i. 56. 4; iii. 30. 12). He is praised with Vishnu (vi.69) in one hymn, as distinct from him.]
[Footnote 13: Bollensen would see an allusion to idols in i. 145. 4-5 (to Agni), but this is very doubtful (ZDMG. xlvii. p. 586). Agni, however, is on a par with Indra, so that the exception would have no significance. See Kaegi, Rig Veda, note 79a.]
