[Footnote 29:  Reverend Doctor H.C.  Trumbull has kindly called our attention to Robert’s Oriental Illustrations, p. 148 ff., where it is said that in India today the threshold is sacred.  In reference to threshold offerings, common in the law, Dr. Trumbull’s own forthcoming book on Covenants may be compared.]

[Footnote 30:  But these are by no means the last examples of human sacrifices.  Several of the modern Hindu sects have caused to be performed such sacrifices, even in this century.]

[Footnote 31:  This can hardly mean ‘put out on the river’ as has been suggested as an explanation of the corpse ’thrown aside’ in accordance with the earlier text, AV. xviii. 2. 34 (paropta), where the dead are ’buried, thrown aside, burned, or set out.’]

     [Footnote 32:  It is assumed in XII. 364. 2 that “leaves and
     air” are food enough for a great saint.  Compare below the
     actual asceticism of modern devotees.]

[Footnote 33:  III. 25. 14:  saptar[s.]ayas ... divi viprabh[=a]nti.  Compare ib. 261. 13, and the apocalypse in VII. 192. 52 ff., where Drona’s soul ascends to heaven, a burning fire like a sun; In sharp contrast to the older ‘thumbkin’ soul which Yama receives and carries off in the tale of Satyavant.  Compare also Arundhati in I. 233. 29.]

     [Footnote 34:  Described, as above, as a place of singers and
     dancers, where are the Vedic gods and sages, but no sinners
     or cowards (III. 42. 34 ff.).]

[Footnote 35:  From another point of view the stars are of interest.  They are favorable or unfavorable, sentient, kind, or cruel; influential in man’s fate.  Compare III. 200. 84, 85, where the sun is included with the grahas (planets) which influence men, and ib. 209. 21, tulyanak[.s]atrama[.n]gala.]

[Footnote 36:  Other of Indra’s spirits are the singers, Gandharvas and Apsarasas; also the horse-headed Kinnaras and C[=a]ranas, who, too, are singers; while later the Vidy[=a]dharas belong both to Indra and to Civa.  In modern times the South Indian Sittars, ‘saints,’ take their name from the Siddhas.]

[Footnote 37:  In d[=a]nnavar[s.]i there is apparently the same sort of compound as in devar[s.]i and brahmar[s.]i, all associated with the siddhas in III. 169. 23.  But possibly ‘demons and seers’ may be meant.]

     [Footnote 38:  III. 37. 32-35 (prapadye vicvedev[=a]n!).]

[Footnote 39:  Weber finds in the Asuras’ artisan, Asura Maya, a reminiscence of Ptolemaios.  He is celebrated in I. 228. 39, and II. 1, and is the generai leader of the d[=a]navas, demons, perhaps originally a folk-name of enemies.]

[Footnote 40:  See below.  The formal division is, d[=a]iva, hatha, karma, i.e., man’s fate depends on gods, Fate, and