Vol. V, No. 4.) The Hero-Gods of the Rigveda. 115 
[N.S.] 
Visnu is verily sacrifice. 
But if this be their construction what do these riks mean ? 
Is it a case of a number of gods being praised together by a 
worshipper and of their regaling with the Soma draught 
together? This cannot be the meaning. For some of the 
persons mentioned in them are evidently human sacrificers. It 
cannot be said that the case of the gods mentioned in them 
should be taken in one sense and that of the men mentioned 
(f) Indirect proof that Trita was a human sacrificer: 
19. ofa ferarfa ara ag atfutca fear 
faa gat aude a arat a ast ast VAT HATA... I 
Ts) erie 
In whom all poetry rests as the nave rests on the wheel ; 
Serve Trita ( - Varuna) quickly as the cows are tied in the stalls 
or even as the steeds—VIII, 41-6. 
Remarks :—In this rik Trita is a name for Varuna. In the 
Rigveda there are many instances of the gods worshipped 
eing named after their worshippers and the latter being named 
after the gods. 
0. fq ay F GaaraTae wats atat: ule aATAAT: | 
ST warat qaryat 4 aad fad awed 9 fe Es I 
ii ian esta 
Your unovercomeable flames, 0 Agni, who wishes to burn 
the forests, run like winds. The leaders for the fulfilment of 
ba wishes go to the heroic T'rita (= Agni) like gay warriors— 
, 115-4 
Remarks :—See under the preceding rik and also my paper 
on ‘* Matarigva.”’ 
21, fa uegre faa: eaaaqufeatat atat see: | 
aa: soon fami zqa faunas 77 I 
re ieci¢ 
