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[Footnote 33: The groom 'releases her from Varuna's fetter,' by symbolically loosening the hair. They step northeast, and he says: 'One step for sap; two for strength; three for riches; four for luck; five for children; six for the seasons; seven for friendship. Be true to me-may we have many long-lived sons.']
[Footnote 34: There is another funeral hymn, X. 16, in which the Fire is invoked to burn the dead, and bear him to the fathers; his corporeal parts being distributed 'eye to the sun, breath to the wind,' etc.]
[Footnote 35: See below.]
[Footnote 36: Compare Weber, Streifen, I. 66; The king's first wife lies with a dead victim, and is bid to come back again to life. Levirate marriage is known to all the codes, but it is reprehended by the same code that enjoins it. (M. ix. 65.)]
[Footnote 37: The ordeal is called divyam (pram[=a][n.Jam) 'Gottesurtheil.' This means of information is employed especially in a disputed debt and deposit, and according to the formal code is to be applied only in the absence of witnesses. The code also restricts the use of fire, water, and poison to the slaves (Y[=a]j. ii. 98).]
[Footnote 38: Kaegi. Alter und Herkunft des Germanischen Gottesurtheils, p. 50. We call especial attention to the fact that the most striking coincidences in details of practice are not early either in India or Germany.]
[Footnote 39: Schlagintweit, Die Gattesurtheile der Indier, p. 24.]
[Footnote 40: This is the earliest formula. Later law-books describe the length and strength of the bow, and some even give the measure of
