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² RV. x. 90. For a quasi parallel in Babylon (Marduk and Tiāmat), cf. Farnell, *Greece and Babylon*, p. 181. Carnoy (JAOS. xxxvi. 320) suggests Babylonian influence, and Tilak (*Bhandarkar Comm. Vol.*, pp. 32 ff.) argues that in AV. v. 13. 6 *taimāta* is Tiāmat, Indra *apsujit* (RV. viii. 13. 2; 36. 1; ix. 106. 3) is a parallel to Marduk’s victory over Apsu, chaos (originally borrowed by Babylon), &c.; cf. A. C. Das, *Ṛig-Vedic India*, i. 226 ff. for further guesses. Rhys (*Celtic Heathendom*, pp. 111 ff., 561 ff.) tries to reconstruct an Indo-European myth (Ouranos’s mutilation).