Endnotes
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1. O' Flaherty, Wendy Doniger: The Rig Veda, Penguin Books, London, 1981, p 81. Click your browser's back button to return to text
2 ibid, p 291. Click your browser's back button to return to text
3 Renou, Louis: Vedic India, Indological Book House, Varanasi, 1971, p 77. Click your browser's back button to return to text
4 ibid: p 71 Click your browser's back button to return to text
5 Bloomfield, Maurice trans,: Hymns of the Atharva-Veda, Greenwood Press, New York, 1969, p 41 Click your browser's back button to return to text
6 O' Flaherty, Wendy Doniger: The Rig Veda, Penguin Books, London, 1981, p 231. Click your browser's back button to return to text
7 Renou, Louis: Vedic India, Indological Book House, Varanasi, 1971, p 96 Click your browser's back button to return to text
8 ibid p 110 Click your browser's back button to return to text
9 Bloomfield, Maurice trans,: Hymns of the Atharva-Veda, Greenwood Press, New York, 1969, p 27 Click your browser's back button to return to text
10 Another name for Mahi, with whom Sarasvati is identified in later Puranic worship.Click your browser's back button to return to text
11. Sri Aurobindo: The Secret of the Veda, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1971, p 89. Click your browser's back button to return to text
12 ibid, p 85 and later:
"Let purifying Saraswati plentiful with florescence of being dwell in Yajna ( either the Lord, or action), rich with the understanding.
Inspirer of true intuitions, awakener of right thoughts, Saraswati supporteth the Yajna.
Saraswati awakeneth to consciousness by force of will (or by thought, ketu, keta will, intuition, intellect) Mahas the ocean and shineth out this way and that in all the movements of the understanding." Click your browser's back button to return to text
13 David Kinsley: Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu religious tradition, University of California Press, California, 1986, pp 12 - 13. I am indebted to David Kinsley for his insights concerning Sarasvati and Vac in this book . Click your browser's back button to return to text
14 O' Flaherty, Wendy Doniger: The Rig Veda, Penguin Books, London, 1981, pp 62-63 Click your browser's back button to return to text
15 ibid, p 61. I am reminded here of the 8th century Irish text which states that the source of poetic art and knowledge is present in everyone but that it does not appear in 'every second person; in the other it does.' Breatnach, Liam: The Caldron of Poesy, Ériu 32, p 65 Click your browser's back button to return to text
16. David Kinsley: Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu religious tradition, University of California Press, California, 1986, p59 Click your browser's back button to return to text
17. Sri Aurobindo: The Secret of the Veda, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1971, p 89, 95 Click your browser's back button to return to text
18 Kinsella, Thomas trans.: The Táin, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1969, p 206 Click your browser's back button to return to text
19.Davies, Oliver: Celtic Christianity in Early Medieval Wales, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1996, pp 77-78 Click your browser's back button to return to text
20 Stokes, W: Three Irish Glossaries, London, Williams and Norgate 1862, pp LVII - LVIII Click your browser's back button to return to text
21. Bloomfield, Maurice (trans): Hymns of the Atharva-Veda, Greenwood Publishers, New York, 1969, pp 111-113 Click your browser's back button to return to text
22. Gray, E.A: Cath Maige Tuired, Irish Texts Society, Naas, Co.Kildare, 1982, p 119 Click your browser's back button to return to text
23. The Hero in Irish Folk History, Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1985, p 259 - 260 Click your browser's back button to return to text
24. This story and its poetic association with Brigit reminds me of a verse in the Rig Veda, 10, 73 6. "The milch-cows of the Truth, enjoyed in heaven, [Or, shared by heaven,] full uddered, desiring us, have fed us .with their milk..." (translated by Sri Aurobindo.) Click your browser's back button to return to text
25. Breatnach, L: The Caldron of Poesy, in Ériu 32, 1981, p.68-69 Click your browser's back button to return to text
26. Renou, Louis: Vedic India, Indological Book House, Varanasi, 1971, p 82 Click your browser's back button to return to text
27. Haycock, Marged: The Significance of the 'Cad Goddau' Tree-List in the Book of Taliesin in Current Issues In Linguistic Theory 68, Celtic Linguistics, p.300 Click your browser's back button to return to text
28. Breatnach, L: The Caldron of Poesy, p.49Click your browser's back button to return to text
29. Henry, P.L: The Caldron of Poesy, in Studia Celtica 14/15, 1979/80, p. 117 Click your browser's back button to return to text
30. Stokes, W: 'The Colloquy of the two Sages' in Revue Celtique 26, 1905 Click your browser's back button to return to text
31. ibid: pp 18-21 Click your browser's back button to return to text
32. O' Flaherty, Wendy Doniger: The Rig Veda, Penguin Books, London, 1981, p 34-7 Click your browser's back button to return to text
33.Wagner, H: Studies in the Origins of Early Celtic Tradition, in Ériu 16, p 1 Click your browser's back button to return to text
34. Sri Aurobindo, Hymns to the Mystic Fire, Mandal 10, 45, 3, 10 Commentary on the Rig Veda - The Planet's most Ancient Text , Web Publication by Mountain Man Graphics, Australia http://www.magna.com.au/~prfbrown/rghmf_00.html Click your browser's back button to return to text
35. Bloomfield, Maurice: The Religion of the Veda, G.P.Putnam's Sons, New York and London, 1908, p 260 Click your browser's back button to return to text
36. This view is that of Calvert Watkins in 'Indo-European Metrics and Archaic Irish Verse'. Heinrich Wagner does not support this view, see ZCP 31, pp 48 - 53. Instead he posits an etymology concerned with weaving. Click your browser's back button to return to text.
37. Bloomfield, Maurice: The Religion of the Veda, G.P.Putnam's Sons, New York and London, 1908, p 243 Click your browser's back button to return to text
38. 'A History of the Voice' 1, BBC Radio 4, broadcast 25.4.2000 Click your browser's back button to return to text
39. Quoted in Ó hÓgáin, D: The Hero in Irish Folk History, Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1985, p 63 Click your browser's back button to return to text
40. According to Renou, the word rita has an original meaning of 'movement' or 'adaptation', perhaps related to the word 'furrow' and the corresponding word in Iranian Avesta is asha which means something like 'health'. Heinrich Wagner, however, sees them both as coming from a root meaning 'to join'. Click your browser's back button to return to text
