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course, the sunset light conceived of as identical with that preceding the sunrise ([Greek: usas, hêôs], 'east' as 'glow').]
[Footnote 101: Late as seems this hymn to be, it is interesting in revealing the fact that wolves (not tigers or panthers) are the poet's most dreaded foes of night. It must, therefore have been composed in the northlands, where wolves are the herdsman's worst enemies.]
[Footnote 102: Myriantheus, Die Açvins, Muir, OST. v. p.234; Bergaigne, Religion Védique, II. p. 431; Müller, Lectures, 2d series, p. 508; Weber, Ind. St. v. p. 234. S[=a]yana on I. 180.2, interprets the 'sister of the Açvins' as Dawn.]
[Footnote 103: Muir, loc. cit. Weber regards them as the (stars) Gemini.]
[Footnote 104: Weber, however, thinks that Dawn and Açvins are equally old divinities, the oldest Hindu divinities in his estimation.]
[Footnote 105: In the Epic (see below) they are called the lowest caste of gods (Ç[=u]dras).]
[Footnote 106: X. 17. 2; I. 46. 2.)
[Footnote 107: I. 181.4 (Roth, ZDMG. IV. 425).]
[Footnote 108: T[=a]itt. S. VII. 2. 7. 2; Muir, loc. cit. p. 235.]
[Footnote 109: vii. 67. 2; vii. 5. 2; x. 39. 12; viii. 9. 17; i. 34. 10; x. 61. 4. Muir, loc. cit. 238-9. Compare ib. 234, 256.]
[Footnote 110: Muir, loc. cit. p. 237. RV. vi. 58. 4; X. 85. 9ff.]