Bhagavat-Gita, p.85.note 144.
"The lord of creation meditated profoundly on the earth, and created the gods, the Vasus, Rudras, and Adityas." COLEBROOKE, in Asiatic Researches, viii.

453.
For the Aswinas see former note.
The Maruts are forty-nine: they preside over the winds (MENU, iii.
88.) The chief god of the wind, Pavana, is called Marut.

Their origin is described in the Ramayana, i.420.See also the Hindu Pantheon, p.
92.] [Footnote 71: p.30.l.14._Hence one moment, thus deserted_.

Conjugal duty is carried to a great height in the laws of Menu: "Though unobservant of approved usages, or enamoured of another woman, or devoid of good qualities, yet a husband must constantly be revered as a god by a virtuous wife." v.

154.] [Footnote 72: p.31.l.11.