824.] [Footnote 13: Ib.] [Footnote 14: Ib.p.

821.] [Footnote 15: Compare Muir, _Original Sanskrit Texts_, V.p.
412 ff., where are given the opinions of Pfleiderer, Pictet, Roth, Scherer, and others.] [Footnote 16: ZDMG., vi.

77: "Ein alter gemeinsam arischer [indo-iranic], ja vielleicht gemeinsam indo-germanischer oberster Gott, Varuna-Ormuzd-Uranos."] [Footnote 17: In his _Science of Language_, Mueller speaks of the early poets who "strove in their childish way to pierce beyond the limits of this finite world." Approvingly cited, SBE.xxxii.p.243 (1891).] [Footnote 18: The over view may be seen in Mueller's _Lecture on the Vedas_ (Chips, I.p.

9): "A collection made for its own sake, and not for the sake of any sacrificial performance." For Pischel's view compare _Vedische Studien_, I.Preface.] [Footnote 19: Bloomfield, JAOS xv.p.

144.] [Footnote 20: Compare Barth (Preface): "A literature preeminently sacerdotal....