cviii NOTES. 



"Jupiter: Vrihaspati; or, according to the more ancient Vedic mode of 

 writing, which is followed by Lassen, Brihaspati : Lord of growth ; a Vedic 

 deity : from vrih (brib), to grow, and pati, lord. 



" Mars : Angaraka (from angara, burning coal) ; also, lohitanga, the red 

 body : from lohita, red, and anga, body. 



" Venus : a male planet, called 'sukra, L e. the bright. Another appellation 

 ofithis planet is daitya-guru : teacher, (guru) of the Titans, Daityas. 



" Mercury : Budha (a planetary name not to be confounded with Buddha, the 

 founder of a creed) ; also Rauhineya, the son of the nymph Rohini, the con- 

 sort of the Moon (soma) ; whence the planet is sometimes called saumya, a 

 patronymic of the Sanscrit word for moon. The etymological root of both 

 Budha and Buddha is budh, to know. It appears to me very improbable that 

 Wuotan ("Wotan, Odin) is connected with Badha. The conjecture has no 

 doubt been principally founded on the external similarity of form, and on the 

 agreement in the name of the day of the week, dies Mercurii, with the old 

 Saxon W6danes-dag, and the Indian Budha-vara, Budha's day. Vara sig- 

 nifies originally time, e. g. in bahuvaran, many times, or often ; later it ap- 

 pears at the end of a composite form in the signification of day. Jacob 

 Grimm (Deutsche Mythologie, S. 120) derives the Germanic Wuotan from 

 the verb watan, vuot (our German waten ; English, to wade), which signifies 

 meare, transmeare, cum impetu ferri, and corresponds literally to the Latin 

 vadere. Wuotan, Odinn, is, according to Jacob Grimm, the all-powerful, 

 all-pervading Being : qui omnia permeat, as Lucan says of Jupiter." 



Compare on the Indian name of the day of the week, on Budha and Buddha, 

 and the days of the week generally, my brother's remarks in his work, Ueber 

 die Verbindungen zwischen Java und Indien (Kawi Sprache, Bd. i. S. 

 187190). 



(H*) p. 300. Compare Letronne sur PAmulette de Jules Cesar et les 

 Signes planetaires, in the Revue Archeologique, Annee iii. 1846, p. 261. 

 Salmasius saw in the most ancient planetary sign for the planet Jupiter, the 

 initial letter of Zefo ; and in that for Mars, an abbreviation of the name 

 bovpios, The solar disc, employed as a sign, was rendered almost unrecog- 

 nisable by a triangular obliquely issuing bundle of rays. As the Earth (apart 

 from the Philolaic Pythagorean system) was not reckoned among tne 

 planets, Letronne considers the planetary sign employed for the Earth to 

 have come into use subsequent to Copernicus. The remarkable passage of 

 Olympiodorus, on the consecration of metals to particular planets, is borrowed 



