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13-14, it is said that Death is the lord of men; Yama, of the Manes.] [Footnote 5: It is here said, also, that the 'Gandharva in the waters and the water-woman' are the ties of consanguinity between Yama and Yam[=i], which means, apparently, that their parents were Moon and Water; a late idea, as in viii.48.13 (unique).] [Footnote 6: The passage, X.17, 1-2, is perhaps meant as a riddle, as Bloomfield suggests (JAOS.XV.p.

172).

At any rate, it is still a dubious passage.

Compare Hillebrandt, _Vedische Mythologie_, I.p.

503.] [Footnote 7: Cited by Scherman, _Visionslitteratur_, p.
147.] [Footnote 8: Possibly, 'streams.'] [Footnote 9: AV.XVIII.3.


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