The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v1.c14.26

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⁶ i. 164. See also Oldenberg’s notes on RV. i. 105. 16; x. 55. 3; *Weltanschauung der Brāhmaṇatexte*, p. 36, n. 1, where he sees in Soma’s thirty-three wives (TS. ii. 3. 5. 1) the Nakṣatras, planets, and sun, but implausibly. If they were so well known as to be understood in such references, why are they never mentioned distinctly? The pole star, Dhruva, appears in the Gṛhya Sūtras only. Cf. below, Chap. 11, § 10.