418 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1909. 
I give below one or two additional arguments to show that 
the statements made in riks iv. 19. 9 and iv. 30, 16, and the 
stories quoted from the Catapatha Brahmana and the Avesta 
at the beginning of this paper, relate to historical facts and not 
to cosmical phenomena either of the atmosphere, as is generally 
believed, or of the terrestrial world as Hillebrandt maintains. 
Ahi has been spoken of in the Avesta as well as in the 
Rigveda and the C.B, as a native of Babylon—expressly in the 
former, and in a mysterious way, peculiar to the vedic literature, 
in the latter. Ahi is generally believed to be a Dragon, what- 
ever that may mean. In my paper on ‘“‘ Trita’’ I have pointed 
out that when after their death certain Aryan leaders were 
deified and translated to heaven some of the non-Aryan chiefs 
with whom they fought were likewise transferred there and 
made into more or less malignant demons of the upper region. 
Ahi was one of them. In confirmation of the human origin of 
Ahi, as stated in the Vedas and the Avesta, we find that in the 
lists of the Assyrian and the Babylonian Kings already made 
out, there are at least three names that end in the word ‘‘ Ahi’ 
namely— 
Assur-nadin-Ahi i. 
Assur-nadin-Ahiii. 
Merodach-nadin-Ahi. 
does not give the tributaries of the Rasa. But it mentions the 
Sanakas as the followers of Ahi. 
& he . bar. Bsa ~ 
qulfe ce ufad wat wHeceuMatutes | 
~ ~~ 
aatety farm Baqasara: aaa: wfaata: Heals 
You verily (O Indra) killed the wealthy Dasyu by your 
thunder, having gone to him alone, though your helpers (=the 
Maruts) were with e 
you. 4 
ome over his bow from all sides the unsacrificing Sanakas 
met with their death. i, 33. 4. 
as been called a Dasyu and elsewhere a Das (Zn. 
Ahi 
Dahaka). These terms indicate that he was a non-Aryan. His 
