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sky; he that gives horses lives in the sun." Compare Zimmer, Altind. Leben p. 409; Geiger, Ostiran. Cultur, p. 290.]
[Footnote 41: x. 88. 15, word for word: "two paths heard of the Fathers I, of the gods and of mortals." Cited as a mystery, Brih. (=A]ran. Up. vi. 2. 2.)
[Footnote 42: x. 16.3: "if thou wilt go to the waters or to the plants," is added after this in addressing the soul of the dead man). Plant-souls occur again in x. 58. 7.]
[Footnote 43: AV. XVIII.4.64; Muir, Av. loc. cit. p. 298. A passage of the Atharvan suggests that the dead may have been exposed as in Iran, but there is no trace of this in the Rig Veda (Zimmer, loc. cit. p. 402).]
[Footnote 44: Barth, Vedic Religions, p. 23; ib., the narrow Thouse of clay,' RV. VII. 89. 1.]
[Footnote 45: I. 24. 1; I. 125.6; VII. 56.24; cited by Müller, Chips, I. p. 45.]
[Footnote 46: IX. 113. 7 ff.]
[Footnote 47: Avars=o]dhanaf.m) divás, 'enclosure of the sky.']
[Footnote 48: Literally, 'where custom' (obtains), i.e., where the old usages still hold.]
[Footnote 49: The last words are to be understood as of sensual pleasures (Muir, loc. cit. p. 307, notes 462, 463).]
[Footnote 50: RV. II. 29. 6; VII. 104.3, 17; IV. 5. 5; IX. 73. 8. Compare Mulr, loc. cit. pp. 311-312; and Zimmer, loc. cit. pp. 408, 418. Yama's