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book of the De Ccelo of Aristotle, in Hygin, Diodorus, and 

 Theon of Smyrna ; it certainly was only its position, and the 

 length of its orbit, which raised it above the other planets. 



" Saturn: 'sanaistschara, from 'sanais, slow, and tschara, 

 going; also 'sauri, a name of Vishnu (derived as a patronymic 

 from 'sura, Grandfather of Kri,) and ? sani. The planet name 

 'sani-varafor ' dies Saturni,' is radically related to the adverb 

 'sanais, slow. The names of the week-days derived from 

 planets appears, however, not to have been known to Amara- 

 sinha. They are, indeed, of later introduction. 



"Jupiter: Vrihaspati; or, according to an older Vedicr 

 mode of writing which Lassen follows, Brihaspati: the Lord 

 of increase, a Vedic deity: from vrih (brih), to grow, and 

 pati, lord. 



"Mars: angaraka (from angara, burning coal); also 

 lohitangas, the red body: from lohita, red; and anga, body. 



"Venus: a male planet, which is called sukra, i. e. the 

 brilliant. Another name of this planet is daitya-guru: 

 Teacher, guru, the Titans, Daityas. 



" Mercury : Budha, not to be confounded as a planet name 

 with Buddha, the founder of the religious sect; also Rau- 

 hmeya, the son of the nymph Rohini, wife of the Moon 

 (soma), on which account the planet is sometimes called 

 saumya, a patronymic of the Sanscrit word mond. The 

 etymological root of budha, the planet name, and buddha, the 

 name of the saint, is budh, to know. It seems to me impro- 

 bable that Wuotan ("VVotan, Odin) are connected with Budha. 

 This conjecture is founded, indeed, principally upon the 

 external similarity of form, and upon the correspondence of 

 the name of the day of the week, ' dies Mercurii,' with the old 

 Saxon Wodanes-dag, and the Indian Budha- vara, i. e. Budha's 

 day. The primitive signification of Yara is repetition, for 

 example, in bahuvaran, many times, often; it subsequently 

 occurs at the end of a compound word with the signification 

 day Jacob Grimm derives the German Wuotan from the 

 verb watan, vuot (the German waten), which signifies: meare, 

 transmeare, cum impetu ferri, and orthographically corre- 

 sponds to the Latin vadere. (Deutsche Mythvlogie, p. 120.) 

 Wuotan, Odinn is, according to Jacob Grimm, the all-power- 



