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steps' that the identity with the sun is established. In RV. 1. 156. 4, Vishnu is already above Varuna.)
[Footnote 71: Çat. Br. xiv. 1. 1. 5.]
[Footnote 72: For other versions see Mulr, Original Sanskrit Texts, iv. p. 127 ff.]
[Footnote 73: Later interpreted as wives or eyes.]
[Footnote 74: For an epic guess at the significance of the title n[=illaka[n. J[t]ha, 'blue-throated,' see Mbh[=a] i. 18. 43.]
[Footnote 75: AV. iv. 28; viii. 2; xi. 2. Thus even in the Rig Veda pairs of gods are frequently besung as one, as if they were divinities not only homogeneous but even monothelous.]
[Footnote 76: Brahms=a)'s mark in the lotus; Vishnu's, the discus (sun); Çiva's, the Linga, phallic emblem.]
[Footnote 77: The grim interpretation of later times makes the cattle (to be sacrificed) men. The theological interpretation is that Çiva is the lord of the spirit, which is bound like a beast.]
[Footnote 78: The commenter, horrified by the murder of the Father-god, makes Rudra kill 'the sin', but the original shows that it is the Father-god who was shot by this god, who chose as his reward the lordship over kine; and such exaltation is not improbable (moreover, it is historical!). The hunting of the Father-god by Rudra is pictured in the stars (Orion), Ait. Br. iii. 33.]
