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firmament he related the deeds of Uttit^i. Indra prepared his car to 

 view the fight. Crowds of Apsauas* filled the vault of heaven, each ascend- 

 ing with the heroes of their choice. 



" As the mountain torrent bursting its bounds expands o'er the plain, so 

 flowed the current of blood. Gunga's wave was crimsoned with the slain, 

 horses and riders were borne down her flood. In the array of war Uttitai 

 was of victory the pillar ; when received into Gunga's embrace, again did 

 the foe encompass Dehli's lord." 



* " Apsara" is one of the celestial messengers who convey the heroes that fall in battle to 

 the heaven allotted to them, and attend on them there. They have all the characteristics of 

 " Odin's maids of war," though the Apsara is of more etherial mould. Rembha, the Hindu 

 Venus, is queen of the Apsaras, wluch word has precisely the same etymology as Aphrodite, one 

 of the names of Venus, because born from the frotti of the sea, viz. Ap ' water,' and sdra ' the 

 essence, cream, or froth.' 



I shall some day pursue these analogies in points of Grecian and Hindu mythology, hitherto 

 unnoticed. 



