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[Footnote 80: Loc. cit., p. 13.]
[Footnote 81: One of the chief objections to Bergaigne's conception of Varuna as restrainer is that it does not explain the antique union with
Mitra.]
[Footnote 82: II. 28.4, 7; VII. 82. 1, 2; 87.2]
[Footnote 83: vii. 87. 6; 88. 2.)
[Footnote 84: vii. 41. 2, 7, 8. So Varuna gives soma, rain. As a rain-god he surpasses Dyaus, who, ultimately, is also a rain-god (above), as in Greece.)
[Footnote 85: Compare Çat. Br. V. 2.5.17, "whatever is dark is Varuna's.")
[Footnote 86: In II. 38. 8 varuna means 'fish,' and 'water in 1.184. 3.]
[Footnote 87: V. 62. I, 8; 64.7; 61.5; 65. 2; 67. 2; 69.1; VI. 51.1; 67.5. In VIII. 47.11 the [=A]dityas are themselves spies.]
[Footnote 88: Introduction to Grassmann, II. 27; VI. 42. Lex. S. v.]
[Footnote 89: Religions of India, p. 17.]
[Footnote 90: The Rik knows, also, a Diti, but merely as antithesis to Aditi—the 'confined and unconfined.' Aditi is prayed to (for protection and to remove sin) in sporadic verses of several hymns addressed to other gods, but she has no hymn.]