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so. One day Visnu was asleep resting his head on the end of his 
bow when the gods entered into an arrangement with the ants 
who gnawed off the bow-string. The ends of the bow sprang 
asunder and Visnu’s head was cut off. Indra among the gods 
(=King Yima) was seized unawares and sawn asunder. — 
The two accounts of the death of Yama—one given 1n the 
Avesta and the other in the (’.B.—differ only on two points : 
1°. The Avesta says that Yama was killed by Azi Dahaka 
and his followers. According to the (.B 
cut off by the Vamris, generally understood to be the females of 
a species of ant known as vyatat | 
2°. The glory of Yama according to the C.B. passed to 
Indra, and according to the Avesta to the son of 7'rita. As to 
its passing to the sun both scriptures agree, only the languages 
used by them differ. The Avesta says the glory passed to 
Mitra (=theSun). According to the (.B., the severed head of 
Trita was the original of the 
my papers on ‘‘ Visnu’’ and *‘ Trita,”’ I have pointed out that 
in a number of places an act that the Rigveda ascribes to the 
father, the Avesta ascribes to the son, and vice versa. On this 
point therefore there is no real difference. 
On the first view 1° seems to be an important difference 
But on a closer consideration this difference also vanishes away- 
In the Avesta Azi Dahaka is said to have come from Babylon. 
The phonetic rendering of the name of Babylon as given 10 the 
cuneiform writings is ‘‘ Babli.’’ The word in the Avesta 18 
“‘ Bawli.”? Now ‘ Babli,’’ ‘‘ Bawli’’ and ‘‘ Vamrs’’ (wat ) are 
the same word in three different languages. 
irst as to “‘ Babli’? (Cun.) and “ Bawri’’ (Zn.) we find here 
two differences : 
a°. In place of 6 in Cun. we have w in Zn. 
b°. In place of / we have r. 
a°. In the Zn. internal 6 and w are sometimes interchange 
b°. In the Zn. there is only one liquid r which is used both 
for rand i. ” 
Next let us compare Cun. ‘‘ Babli’? with Sn. ‘‘ Vamri. 
Here we have the following differences : 
a°. @for 4. 
b°. @ for ¥. 
