... This conception was a heritage of the past.... The supreme God
was originally the God of heaven." So Darmesteter, _Contemporary
Review_, October, 1879. Roth had previously written with much learning
and acuteness to the same effect.
[6] Muir's _Sanskrit Texts_, v, 412.
[7] R.V., iii, 62, 10.
[8] The rites, says Haug, "must have existed from times
immemorial."--_Aitareya Brahmana_, pp. 7, 9.
[9] Weber, _History of Indian Literature_, p. 38.
[10] Max Mueller, _Ancient Sanskrit Literature_, p. 389.
[11] "The haughty Indra takes precedence of all gods." R.V., 1,
55.
[12] "These two personages [Indra and Varuna] sum up the two
conceptions of divinity, between which the religious consciousness of
the Vedic Aryans seems to oscillate."--Bergaigne, _La Religion Vedique_,
vol. iii, p. 149.
[13] The meaning of the term is not quite certain. _Sessions_,
or _Instructions_, may perhaps be the rendering. So Monier Williams.
[14] For example, Wordsworth:
"Thou, Thou alone
Art everlasting, and the blessed Spirits
Which Thou includest, as the sea her waves."
--_Excursion_, book iv.
[15] Or, the thing that really is--the [Greek: ontos on].
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