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bird ; (3) and also that Vivasvan was the great Gandharva, and 
according to Manu (III. 32) the Gandharva form of marriage was 
simply the living together of a man and woman out of ws 
attachment without undergoing any marriage ceremony ;— 
Yama’s mother may be taken as literally #y—an unmarried 
damsel. In os case riks iv. 19. 9 and iv. 30. 16 refer to 
the jogs of Yam 
end i means unmarried ; but its supposed deri- 
vation Bas = without, and a@a husband, conveys too recent 
an idea to be the origina 
| 3°. fataa means a ies. a place on which anything rests, 
a a (Manu). The vik makes very good sense if we take the 
word to mean ‘‘camp’’ as the editor of the Vedarthayatna has 
done, or the place where the severed body of Yama was lvin 
4°. afe=ea. In this sense the word ee been used several 
times in Hymn IV. 19, namely, in riks 2, 3, and 9. 
5°. fq The ordinary grammar faite t to derive it. Sa- 
yana makes it = faya:| He may be right, but what is the mean- 
ing of the word? I think the word means ceasing to exist— 
dying, ceasing to exist as acreature,7 e., as a being with a mate- 
rial body. But the Risis believed that even after death men 
had bodies of a luminous character—the @e@-2¥ of the later 
Upanisads. 
6. vefeeg. The explanation already given of this word 
issimply an eae Whatever be the meaning of it one thing 
is clear. Itis the ¥@, qatfa limbs of the son of ay that were 
disunited— severed. For they are said to have been reunited 
through the favour of Indra—eara | sefee an adjective to 
v4, therefore, cannot mean the cutter of wet as explained by 
Sayana. It must mean the limb or limbs (94, yatfa) cut up by 
38 or S@ whatever this word may mean. The word yates 
therefore should be taken as= vefeeq | Sayana has virtually 
done this while explaining acm ya Now the question is what 
is then yet? Both the eastern and the western scholars have 
taken it for a pot—a boiling or cooking-pot. But if this be the 
meaning of the term yet the compound word yefeg = SStea 
makes no sense. I think in the literary Sanskrit the meaning of 
S@T in the sense in which it has been used in the compound word 
38 Sq has been lost. It appears, however, that in the ordi- 
nary dialect of Bengal the word ge or get has another mean- 
ing, namely, a file. I have pointed out. in a little paper that 
