The Religions of India eBook

Edward Washburn Hopkins
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about The Religions of India.

The Religions of India eBook

Edward Washburn Hopkins
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about The Religions of India.
[Footnote 17:  Hirt equates Parjanya, Perkunas, Fjoergyn, as originally epithet of Dy[=a]ns-Zeus, with [Greek:  phegotaios], the ‘Oak-god.’  See also Zimmer, ZDA. vii. (19) 164.]
[Footnote 18:  Mueller explains Rudra as ‘howler’; Leo identifies him with Wuotan; Jones with Apollo, Kuhn.  KZ. iii. 335; as A. Sax.  Rodor, ib. ii. 478:  P. von Bradke.  ZDMG. xi. 361.  Oldenberg’s delineation of Rudra in Die Religion des Veda is based on the Brahmanic Rudra-Civa (see PAOS.  Dec 1894).]

     [Footnote 19:  Kerbaker, Varuna e gli Aditya (Naples,
     Proceedings of the Royal Academy) is known to us only by
     title.]

     [Footnote 20:  The author justly remarks that no sociological
     data can be made of Yama’s wife or sister.]

     [Footnote 21:  Dog sees Death, sharp sight of dog causes
     myth.]

[Footnote 22:  Other less important examples of etymological ingenuity are Scherer, Brahman as flamen ([Greek:  Brhagkos], Bragi, see Kaegi, Rig Veda, note 82); abhrad[=i]t[=a] as Aphrodite, Sonne, KZ. x. 415; Ahaly[=a] as Achilleus, Weber, Sitz.  Berl.  Ak., 1887; Id[=a] as Iris (Windischmann), Poseidon, potidas, i[=d.]aspati (Fick, KZ. xxi. 462); but in KZ. i. 459 Poseidon is patye davan.  On the form compare BB. viii. 80; x. 237; KZ. xxx. 570.  Prellwitz, BB. ix. 327, agrees with Fick and Pott as to i[d.]as representing [Greek:  oidma] and compares [prosklhotios].  Garga is Gorgo, Kern, JRAS. iv. 431; P[=a]jasya is Pegasos, etc, KZ. i. 416, xxix. 222; Parvata is Pelasgos, Burda, KZ. xxi. 470; but compare Stier, ib. xi. 229, where Pelasgoi are ‘cranes’; and Pische, ib. xx. 369, where they are [Greek:  parhrhhasioi].  Sabheya is Yavi[s.][t.]ha (not Hephaistos, as says Kuhn), Mueller, ib. xviii. 212; and v[r.]trahan is not Bellerophon (as says Pott), ib. iv. 416, v. 140 (bellero is varvara).  Carad is Ceres, Mueller, ib. xviii. 211; svav[=a]n is [Greek:  enas], Autrecht, ZDMG. xiii 499; svar ‘sing’ in Silenus, Siren:  Buddhaguru in Pythagoras, etc.  Helena is Saram[=a], and Hermes 1s S[=a]rameya.  Mueller, Chips, ii. 138, note.  Compare for further clever guesses Cox’s Aryan Mythology, Mueller’s Lectures, Second Series, and Biographies of Words.]
[Footnote 23:  Compare Deussen, Geschichte der Philosophie, i. 105.  On Vedic and Sanskrit Riddles, loc. cit.; also Haug, Vedische Raethselfragen (also Brahma und die Brahmanen); Fuehrer, ZDMG. xxxix. 99.]

     [Footnote 24:  There is an essay on this subject by Kern,
     Ind.  Theorieen over de Standenverdeeling, which we have not
     seen.]

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