[Footnote 64:  This word means either order or orders (law);
     literally the ‘way’ or ‘course.’]

     [Footnote 65:  1. 24 (epitomized).]

     [Footnote 66:  Perhaps better with Ludwig “of (thee) in
     anger, of (thee) incensed.”]

     [Footnote 67:  Or:  “Being (himself) in the (heavenly) flood
     he knows the ships.” (Ludwig.)]

     [Footnote 68:  An intercalated month is meant (not the
     primitive ’twelve days’).]

     [Footnote 69:  Or ‘very wise,’ of mental strength.]

     [Footnote 70:  VIII. 41. 7; VII. 82. 6 (Bergaigne); X. 132.
     4.]

     [Footnote 71:  Compare Bergaigne, La Religion Vedique, iii.
     pp. 116-118.]

     [Footnote 72:  The insistence on the holy seven, the ’secret
     names’ of dawn, the confusion of Varuna with Trita.  Compare,
     also, the refrain, viii. 39-42.  For X. 124, see below.]

     [Footnote 73:  Compare Hillebrandt’s Varuna and Mitra, p. 5;
     and see our essay on the Holy Numbers of the Rig Veda (in
     the Oriental Studies).]

[Footnote 74:  Varuna’s forgiving of sins may be explained as a washing out of sin, just as fire burns it out, and so loosens therewith the imagined bond, V. 2. 7.  Thus, quite apart from Varuna in a hymn addressed to the ‘Waters,’ is found the prayer, “O waters, carry off whatever sin is in me ... and untruth,” I. 23. 22.]

     [Footnote 75:  But as in iv. 42, so in x. 124 he shares glory
     with Indra.]

[Footnote 76:  Later, Varuna’s water-office is his only physical side.  Compare [=A]it. [=A]r.  II.  I. 7. 7, ’water and Varuna, children of mind.’  Compare with v[=a]ri, oura = v[=a]ra, and var[=i], an old word for rivers, var[s.] (= var + s), ‘rain.’  The etymology is very doubtful on account of the number of var-roots.  Perhaps dew (ersa) and rain first as ‘coverer.’  Even var = vas ‘shine,’ has been suggested (ZDMG.  XXII. 603).]

     [Footnote 77:  The old comparison of Varena cathrugaosha
     turns out to be “the town of Varna with four gates"!]

     [Footnote 78:  In India:  What Can it Teach us, pp. 197,
     200, Mueller tacitly recognizes in the physical Varuna only
     the ‘starry’ night-side.]

[Footnote 79:  Loc. cit., III. 119.  Bergaigne admits Varuna as god of waters, but sees in him identity with Vritra a ‘restrainer of waters.’  He thinks the ‘luminous side’ of Varuna to be antique also (III. 117-119).  Varuna’s cord, according to Bergaigne, comes from ‘tying up’ the waters; ‘night’s fetters,’ according to Hillebrandt.]

     [Footnote 80:  Loc. cit., p. 13.]

     [Footnote 81:  One of the chief objections to Bergaigne’s
     conception of Varuna as restrainer is that it does not
     explain the antique union with Mitra.]