Donald Alexander Mackenzie - Indian Myth and Legend

The Rigveda , by Professor E. Vernon Arnold, p. 16 ( Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore ).

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria , by Dr. T. G. Pinches, p. 68.

Frazer's “Golden Bough” ( Adonis, Attis, Osiris , p. 255, n., third edition).

Professor H. W. Hogg, in Professor Moulton's Early Religious Poetry of Persia , p. 37.

“The Golden Bough” ( Spirits of the Corn and Wild , vol. ii, p. 10).

Rigveda , ii, 38.

Indian Wisdom , p. 20.

Indian Wisdom , Sir Monier Williams.

Indian Wisdom , Sir Monier Williams.

Muir's Original Sanskrit Texts , v, 130.

See Teutonic Myth and Legend .

Kaegi's Rigveda , Arrowsmith's translation. This was apparently a rain charm; its humour was of the unconscious order, of course.

Iliad , xxiii, 75.

Muir, Original Sanskrit Texts , v. 302.

Rigveda , x. 51 (Arnold's translation).

A History of Sanskrit Literature , p. 117.

As was also Manu of a different or later cult.

From Indian Wisdom .

A History of Sanskrit Literature , p. 117.

Early Religious Poetry of Persia , Professor J. H. Moulton, p. 42.

A History of Sanskrit Literature , Professor Macdonell, p. 68.

Rigveda , x, 10.

From Indian Wisdom .

Satapatha Brahmana , translated by Professor Eggeling, Part IV, 1897, p. 371 ( Sacred Books of the East ).

From Adi Parva section of Mahabharata .

Saraswati's rival. Brahma took Gayatri, the milkmaid, as a second wife, because his chief wife, Saraswati, despite her wisdom, arrived late for a certain important ceremony, at which the spouse of the god was required.

Unfaithful wives were transformed into jackals after death.

Lokapala-Sabhakhyana section of Sabha Parva .

Sons of the goddess Aditi. They are attendants of Varuna, their chief, as the Maruts are attendants of Indra.

Adi Parva section of Mahabharata , Roy's trans., p. 635.

The Tribes and Castes of Bengal. H. H. Risley (1892), vol. i, lxv, et seq .

Muir's Original Sanskrit Texts , v, 15.

Professor E. Vernon Arnold's The Rigveda , p. 54.

In the combat between Thor and the giant Hrungner, the thunder-hammer similarly cleaves a mass of flint hurled by the enemy.— Teutonic Myth and Legend.

Mahabharata, Vana Parva section, pp. 679-80, Roy's trans.

“Overwhelmed by misfortune” (Roy).

Heaven, Earth, and the Underworld.

Mahabharata.

Asuras are sometimes called Rakshasas also.

Pron. pe-shatch'as.

Bloomfield's Atharvaveda iv, 36 ( Sacred Books of the East , vol. xlii).

Mahabharata , Roy's trans. ( Sabha Parva , p. 32).

Vana Parva section of Mahabharata .

Dasyu and Dasa are “applied in many passages of the Rigveda to superhuman enemies”. The colour reference in Dasa is probable, but it is also used in other senses. For a full discussion on conflicting views regarding Dasyu and Dasa see Vedic Index of Names and Subjects . Macdonell and Keith, vol. i, pp. 347-9 and 356-8.

Mahabharata , Roy's translation ( Adi Parva , section, pp. 495-6).

Like an Egyptian Pharaoh, the rajah is here a god among men. His presence was necessary to ensure the success of rain-bringing ceremonies.