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  1 Intro,  2|           a religion in which the gods were chiefly personified
  2 Intro,  2|       hymns was to propitiate the gods by praises accompanying
  3 Intro,  4|     groups addressed to different gods. On the other hand, Books
  4 Intro,  4|          and those that follow to gods of less importance. The
  5 Intro,  7|     concerned with the worship of gods that are largely personifications
  6 Intro,  7|       mainly invocations of these gods, and are meant to accompany
  7 Intro,  7|          of its latest hymns. The gods are usually stated in the
  8 Intro,  7|      included in this number. The gods were believed to have had
  9 Intro,  7|    occasionally refers to earlier gods, and certain deities are
 10 Intro,  7|         from Agni and Savitr.~The gods were conceived as human
 11 Intro,  7|           his flames. Some of the gods appear equipped as warriors,
 12 Intro,  7|           men is also that of the gods, consisting in milk, butter,
 13 Intro,  7|       Soma plant. The home of the gods is heaven, the third heaven,
 14 Intro,  7|          bliss.~Attributes of the gods.--Among these the most prominent
 15 Intro,  7|           Since in most cases the gods of the RV. have not yet
 16 Intro,  7|      pairs-a practice making both gods share characteristics properly
 17 Intro,  7|  identified not only with all the gods, but with nature as well.
 18 Intro,  7|     Vedanta philosophy.~The Vedic gods may most conveniently be
 19 Intro,  7|         RV. itself. The celestial gods are Dyaus, Varuna, Mitra,
 20 Intro,  7|            Night. The atmospheric gods are Indra, Apam napat, Rudra,
 21 Intro,  7|      hymns addressed to all these gods, with detailed introductions
 22 Intro,  7|         new -drinking-cup for the gods. He is a guardian of Soma,
 23 Intro,  7|    belongs to this class of agent gods (cf. p. 11).~There are a
 24 Intro,  7|      originally epithets of older gods, but now become epithets
 25 Intro,  7|     Originally an epithet of such gods as Savitr and Soma, this
 26 Intro,  7|          Anumati, 'Favour (of the gods)', Aramati, 'Devotion',
 27 Intro,  7|            The wives of the great gods are still more insignificant,
 28 Intro,  7|   Divinities.--Besides the higher gods, a number of lesser divine
 29 Intro,  7|            or in association with gods. Plants are regarded as
 30 Intro,  7|        are the aerial foes of the gods. These, are seldom called
 31 Intro,  7|         other than the worship of gods or deified objects. About
 32 Intro,  8|            147) describes various gods without mentioning their
 33 Intro,  8|          from any of the ordinary gods. One of them (x. 129, p.
 34 Intro,  8|        the chief offerings to the gods. Two kinds of spirituous
 35 Intro,  8|          desire in prayers to the gods. But agriculture was also
 36 Intro,  9|       much genuine poetry. As the gods are mostly connected with
 37 Intro,  9|           to the Maruts, or Storm gods, often depict with vigorous
 38   1      |        his tongue, with which the gods eat the oblation. With a
 39   1      |           a horse that brings the gods, and is yoked to convey
 40   1      |         is the mouth by which the gods eat the sacrifice; and his
 41   1      |          which he besprinkles the gods, but he is also asked to
 42   1      |          nearly always with other gods, invited to drink the Soma
 43   1      |          his steeds he brings the gods on his car.~He is the child
 44   1      |      offspring of the waters. The gods generated him as a light
 45   1      |         regarded as a gift of the gods as well as a production
 46   1      |           three or threefold; the gods made him threefold; he is
 47   1      |           offerings of men to the gods and brings the gods to the
 48   1      |           the gods and brings the gods to the sacrifice. He is
 49   1      |     messenger (dutá) appointed by gods and by men to be an 'oblation-bearer'.~
 50   1      |         surpass that of the other gods. His cosmic and creative
 51   1      |          of offering gifts to the gods in fire. But whether it
 52   2      |         subject to him. The other gods follow his lead; and no
 53   4      |           where pious men and the gods rejoice. There can be no
 54   4      |           is dedicated to the two gods conjointly. Through the
 55   5      |           also the parents of the gods. At the same time they are
 56   5      |  themselves created by individual gods. One of them is a prolific
 57   6      |        Soma than any of the other gods, the common epithet 'Soma-drinker' (
 58   6      |           the artificer among the gods. Agni is called Indra's
 59   6      |      constantly dwelt on: neither gods nor men have attained to
 60   6      |       like him is known among the gods. Thus various epithets such
 61   7      |          of the doings of men and gods, He is bountiful (midhváms),
 62  10      |          Called the father of the gods, he is also said to have
 63  11      |    ordinance of nature and of the gods. She renders good service
 64  11      |       renders good service to the gods by awakening all worshippers
 65  11      |           kindled. She brings the gods to drink the Soma draught.
 66  11      |         she brings the eye of the gods, and leads on the beautiful
 67  11      |           connected with the twin gods of early morning, the Asvins (
 68  13      |       Dawn), and was given by the gods to the Sun-maiden Surya
 69  14      |       They follow the path of the gods. Indra, armed with the bolt,
 70  14      |        goal. They abide where the gods dwell, in the seat of Mitra-Varuna,
 71  14      |       rich in honey, gladdens the gods, is the draught of Indra,
 72  15      |          rivers, and they are the gods most frequently thought
 73  15      |   obstructed even by the immortal gods. They are upholders and
 74  15      |          dual invocation of these gods goes back to the Indo-Iranian
 75  16      |        well as of Agni and of the gods. He is far-seeing, all-seeing,
 76  16      |           is Dyaus or Heaven. The gods raised him who had been
 77  16      |           sky; various individual gods, too, are said to have produced
 78  16      |        all the world, for men and gods. He dispels the darkness,
 79  16      |           asuryà puróhita) of the gods. At his rising he is besought
 80  16      |         Mitra-Varuna and to other gods.~The name Súrya is a derivative
 81  17      |    deities are the most prominent gods after Indra, Agni, and Soma,
 82  17      | lotus-garlands. They are the only gods called golden-pathed (híranya-vartani).
 83  17      |      mádhu) than any of the other gods. They desire honey and are
 84  17      |         car, and they (with other gods) are besought to bestow
 85  18      |     Varuna is the greatest of the gods of the RV., though the number
 86  18      |         laws are established. The gods themselves follow his ordinances.
 87  20      |       intended to include all the gods in order that none should
 88  21      |        which it is offered to the gods on the litter of sacred
 89  21      |           of immortality. All the gods drink Soma; they drank it
 90  21      |           immortality not only on gods, but on men. It has, moreover,
 91  21      |         he knows the races of the gods.~The intoxicating effect
 92  21      |       Soma is, like other leading gods, called a king: he is a
 93  21      |           a king or father of the gods; a king of gods and mortals.
 94  21      |     father of the gods; a king of gods and mortals. In a few of
 95  22      |       world, the Fathers, and the gods. He is besought to preserve
 96  22      |         which is passed among the gods, especially in the presence
 97  23      |           Yama and feast with the gods. They are fond of Soma,
 98  23      |        actions, like those of the gods, are sometimes attributed
 99  23      |          from that trodden by the gods (devayána).~
100  25      |  Purusa-sukta or hymn of Man, the gods are the agents of creation,
101  28      |          which is the home of the gods, he is surrounded by songs
102  28      |       lead his worshippers to the gods, and to prolong life.~His
103  29      |         Vata is the breath of the gods. Like Rudra he wafts healing
104  29      |   comparison for the speed of the gods or of mythical steeds. His