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________________ [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 94: VII. 77.] [Footnote 95: Clouds.) [Footnote 96: The sun.] [Footnote 97: The priest to whom, and to whose family, is ascribed the seventh book.] [Footnote 98: JAOS., XV. 270.] [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
SR No.007634
Book TitleHandbook of History of Religions
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorEdward Washburn
PublisherSanmati Tirth Prakashan Pune
Publication Year
Total Pages678
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationBook_English
File Size2 MB
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